YVONNE FAIR TESSLER - Braille Institute of America

SWANSON, GLORIA
Swanson on Swanson
RC 15811
Now in her eighties, Swanson, once the golden girl of silent films,
looks back on her full life. She relates the highs and lows of six
marriages, and affairs with such men as movie-actor Herbert Marshall
and Joseph Kennedy. The glamorous star describes with humor and
candor the early days of motion pictures and her acting roles.
WALLACE, IRVING, 1916-1990
The Two: A Biography
RC 11420
Story of "the original" Siamese twins. Born in Siam in 1811, Chang
and Eng were joined at the chest by a fleshy ligament throughout their
sixty-three years. Two different, often conflicting, personalities, the
brothers became successful gentlemen farmers in North Carolina,
courted and married two pretty sisters, and fathered twenty-one
children.
WINTERS, SHELLEY
Shelley: Also Known as Shirley
RC 15787
Brassy, earthy memoirs of a street-smart kid from Brooklyn who
always wanted to be an actress. Winters recalls what she was, how she
felt, and what it was like to be struggling during the depression. She
talks about friends Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Howard Hughes,
and about her lovers--Marlon Brando, Errol Flynn, Burt Lancaster, and
Vittorio Gassman, her second husband.
Shelley II : The Middle of My Century
RC 30641
In the 1950s and 1960s, Winters began to triumph as an actress.
During this time, she had torrid romances and a tempestuous marriage;
was in and out of trouble with friends such as Elizabeth Taylor and
Marilyn Monroe; and actively supported Martin Luther King, Jr., Adlai
Stevenson, and John Kennedy. Sequel to Shelley: Also Known as
Shirley (RC 15787).
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