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Stapleton, Maureen: A HELL OF A LIFE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 1995
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From the Publisher Celebrity or not, Maureen Stapleton is a true "actor's actor," beloved and revered by her fellow performers. Among these colleagues, however, her persona is as celebrated as her talent. In a business full of characters, she is known for her brilliant acting, great heart, undying loyalty, quick wit, excessive drinking, impetuous ill-fated love affairs, and gift for profanity. She is a classic, one of the finest actresses America has ever produced. She created the starring roles in such Tennessee Williams plays as The Rose Tattoo and Orpheus Descending, and has appeared in the works of just about every other outstanding American playwright of recent memory, including Neil Simon, William Inge, Arthur Miller, and Lillian Hellman. She has appeared in many films, including the screen adaptation of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite and Warren Beatty's production of Reds, for which she won the Academy Award. Alas, triumphs on stage and screen have not always been matched on the personal front, a reality about which she is startlingly forthcoming. She is particularly blunt when it comes to her tumultuous love life. Indeed, Neil Simon is alleged to have taken chunks of Maureen's own experience and fashioned it into The Gingerbread Lady, a play about an alcoholic entertainer trying to deal with recovery, a younger lover, and a teenage daughter. What lifts the play well above soap opera is the incredible humor, and it is that same humor that pervades Maureen Stapleton's life. She is one funny lady. She has also been blessed with some of the most interesting - and loyal - friends anyone could hope to read about. Her autobiography is filled with stories about such legends as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, and Sir Laurence Olivier, to name a few. But at the heart of it, of course, is Maureen Stapleton, the little girl from a broken yet devoutly Catholic home in Troy, New York, who loved the movies and loved the stage, who came to Ne From The Critics Publishers Weekly Stapleton (b. 1925) has enjoyed a long career as a character actress and has won every award in sight: Oscar, Tony, Emmy. Her memoir, written with Scovell, covers her starstruck girlhood, her Broadway debut in 1946 and her charter membership in the Actor's Studio and offers insights into her art in such roles as Serafina (The Rose Tattoo). Along the way she talks candidly about her friendship with Marilyn Monroe, her struggle to save Montgomery Clift from self-destruction, the emotional dues she paid to appear in Tennessee Williams's plays and the essential difference between stage and screen acting. Much of the book deals with her multiple health problems, which have included alcoholism, pill addiction and several phobias. One of the most intriguing sections concerns her May-December romance with legendary Broadway director George Abbott (''the object of my greatest passion'') when she was in her 40s and he in his 80s. Stapleton is a woman with a large talent, a short fuse and a bawdy sense of humor, and her helluva life will interest many readers. (Sept.) Library Journal "It was I who found Maureen Stapleton," Tennessee Williams would later say, referring to his casting of the young unknown in his new play, The Rose Tattoo. Soon after, Williams's discovery became an award-winning star of theater, film, and television. Now, in this charming, gritty, and informative autobiography, Stapleton tells her life story, from her difficult childhood in Troy, New York, to her latest work as a 70-year-old actress. The reader gets full accounts of life within the famed Actor's Studio as well as a social history of 50 years of show biz. The style is direct, and the anecdotes lend the feel of a monolog by a fascinating cocktail party guest who happens to be one of America's finest actresses. Recommended for public libraries and libraries with theater collection Hardcover 9.8 in x 6.5 in x 1.2 in

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Stapleton, Maureen: Signed Maureen Stapleton The Little Foxes Program, New York 1981 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.

SIGNED BY MAUREEN STAPLETON. Large 24pg. souvenir program for the 1981 revival of the Lillian Hellman play that starred Elizabeth Taylor and featured Maureen Stapleton. Both actresses received Tony nominations. The program is very well illustrated with much material of course on Ms. Taylor. Ms. Stapleton who was one of our best actresses sadly passed away recently and signed the program next to her biography. Fine. Also included are five playbills from several plays by Lillian Hellman including the original production of "The Little Foxes" that starred Tallulah Bankhead. Also included are playbills for "Another Part Of The Forest," "The Children's Hour," and "Toys In The Attic" that also starred Ms. Stapleton and Candide. Also included is a 4pg. foldover brochure for the theatre club publication of "Toys In The Attic." Vg. Sold as a collection only. Program Oversize Paper; Program

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Henry, Mark C.; Stapleton, Edward R.; Edgerly, Dennis C. Virtual Patient Encounters Implementation Manual for Henry/Stapleton: EMT Prehospital Care Fourth Edition, U.S.A. Mosby Jems Elsevier 2009 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9780323055512
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Very good condition. No interior writing or highlighting. (Implementation Manual as listed) Virtual Patient Encounters Implementation Manual for Henry/Stapleton: EMT Prehospital Care Fourth Edition By Henry, Mark C.; Stapleton, Edward R.; Edgerly, Dennis C. : Product Details: Virtual Patient Encounters Implementation Manual for Henry/Stapleton: EMT Prehospital Care Fourth Edition Soft Cover 159 pages. ISBN-13: 9780323055512 Soft Cover

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Stapleton, Thomas. Promptuarium catholicum, ad instructionem concionatorum contra haereticos nostri temporis. Super omnia evangelia totius anni tam dominicalia, quam de festis [...]. 3 Teile in einem Band. Antwerpen, Peter Beller, 1595. ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Sechste Ausgabe; die Erstausgabe erschien 1592. - Der englische katholische Kontroverstheologe Stapleton (1535-98) verließ seine Heimat nach der Thronbesteigung Elisabeths und studierte in Löwen und Paris. "Stapleton's fame as a controversialist [...] spread all over Europe, and Pope Clement VIII esteemed his writings so highly that he ordered portions of them to be read publicly at his table [...]. Wood calls Stapleton the most learned Roman catholic of all his time'" (T. Cooper, in DNB XVIII, 989f.). - Einband etw. berieben u. fleckig. Rückendeckel m. späterem Bibl.-Schild. Schließbänder fehlen. Einige Bll. m. Eckknicken. Tlw. schwach gebräunt bzw. stockfleckig. - Adams S 1656; BM STC, Dutch Books 193.

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