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Stern, Ellen, author.
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Hirschfeld, Al.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.
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Hirschfeld : the biography / Ellen Stern.
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Stern, Ellen, author.
New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2021]
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Hirschfeld, Al.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781510759404 (hardcover) :
1510759409 (hardcover)
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xiii, 442 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
At the top -- Meet him in St. Louis -- Manhattan transfer -- Poster boy -- Flo -- An American in Paris -- Lines in the sand -- His infinite variety -- Babe in the woods -- To Russia with love -- The Times of his life -- Bali High -- The girlfriend -- And read all over -- Fiddling on the roof -- Party lines -- Hello, Dolly -- War and pieces -- The wonder child -- Show on the road -- Travels with Sidney -- House and home -- On the block -- Wall to wall -- Facing facts -- A heavenly host -- Game of the name -- Behind the scenes -- How many Ninas? -- A piece of work -- Wheeling, dealing - Lone star -- Out of line -- Changing Times -- Sing out, Louise! -- Pointing fingers -- End of the line -- Ever after.
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"The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life--as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and--his favorite--celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends--Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan--flocked in and out. He played the piano, went to jazz joints with Eugene O'Neill, and wrote a musical that bombed. He drove until he was ninety-eight years old and always found a parking space. He worked every day, threw dinner parties twice a week, and hosted New Year's Eve soirees that were legendary. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter, Nina, the most famous little girl that no one knows. Hirschfeld died in 2003, at the age of ninety-nine. "If you live long enough," he liked to say, "everything happens." For him, it did. And good and bad--it's all here. Through interviews with Hirschfeld himself, his friends and family (including the mysterious Nina), and his famous subjects, as well as through letters, scrapbooks, and home movies, Ellen Stern has crafted a delightful, detailed, and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential, artists."--Publisher description.
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741.56973 Hirschfeld St
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