Charmed Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394419545 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 498 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Brothers Korda: Films, Frolics and a Dash of Paprika Stephanie De Pue "It isn't Enough to be a Hungarian," a sign that hung in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's commissary read. "You Must Also Work." The Korda brothers, three talented movie makers who are the subject of Michael Korda's "Charmed Lives: A Family Romance," sure did.Not that the world's too familiar with the idea of Hungarians. Grab this book if you can! ExpatB If this book wasn't impossible to get a hold of, I would have probably bought it for everyone I know. Unfortunately as of now, only used copies of it (why would anyone want to sell it? ) show up occassionally in shops and online auction sites. I first read this book about ten years ago in Hungarian translatio. Bobby D. said "He did not lead a charmed life, you know.". This book has long occupied a spot on my book shelf. I had no idea who the Korda brothers were. The books red cover pictures the three well suited brothers walking straight towards the camera as if walking through the title, CHARMED LIVES. I now know it was a mistake to have let the book sit for so long now t
"A rare, intimate portraitcrowded with anecdotes, comedy and drama." (The New York Times)"A rags to riches fairytaleRich in anecdoteIn a word: Charming!" (Newsday)“Deeply endearing, wildly entertaining, and thoroughly entrancing.” (Garson Kanin)"A wonderful bookeloquent, funny, sad, fascinating." (Chicago Tribune)“The most marvelous book I’ve read so far this year.” (Nancy Friday, author of THE POWER OF BEAUTY)“First-rate entertainment.” (Newsweek)"Larger and more romantic than life." (Time)
G. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included H. But along with Alex's flair for success was an equally powerful impulse for destruction. Wells, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Marlena Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, and Merle Oberon, who was soon to be Alex's wife. A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet.Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. Now, Vincent's son, Michael Korda, in the first book of his memoirs, recalls the enchanted figures of his childhoodthe glory days of the Korda brothers' great filmsand then their heartbreaking, tragic end.
Educated at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served in the Royal Air Force. Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. He took part in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and on its fiftieth anniversary was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. Grant, Ike