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If This Was Happiness audiobook
- By: Barbara Leaming
- Narrator: Anna Fields
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, General
- Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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If This Was Happiness Audiobook Summary
Rita Hayworth was the epitome of 1940s Hollywood glamour. A huge box office star, her sultry figure was pasted by GIs onto the first atom bomb ever detonated. Yet behind the smoldering image lay a tragic secret that wrecked her private life. A pathologically shy child, Rita was thrust into the sordid limelight as her vaudevillian father’s dancing partner at an early age, suffering sexual and physical abuse at his hands. A desperate need for protection led her into five disastrous marriages, including those to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan. At the age of forty-two, Alzheimer’s disease began to ravage her mind, cutting short her career at its peak.
This is a haunting and sympathetic tribute to a talented but insecure beauty who was created, and ultimately destroyed, by the movies.
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If This Was Happiness Audiobook Narrator
Anna Fields is the narrator of If This Was Happiness audiobook that was written by Barbara Leaming
Anna Fields has received five Audie nominations from the Audio Publishers Association and is proud to have won in 2004 for All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki. She has also been honored by Audiofile magazine with more than a dozen Earphones Awards. She has voiced over 250 audiobooks.
About the Author(s) of If This Was Happiness
Barbara Leaming is the author of If This Was Happiness
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If This Was Happiness Full Details
| Narrator | Anna Fields |
| Length | 13 hours 17 minutes |
| Author | Barbara Leaming |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 26, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781483054438 |
Subjects
The publisher of the If This Was Happiness is Blackstone Publishing. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, General
Additional info
The publisher of the If This Was Happiness is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9781483054438.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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