Michelangelo Capua is author of several biographies of Hollywood film stars, including Jean Simmons, Janet Leigh, Deborah Kerr, and Montgomery Clift. He lives in London.
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Introduction Chapter 1: Farm Girl Chapter 2: Catana Chapter 3: Sense and Sensibility Chapter 4: Dallas Pruitt Chapter 5: Lady Pirate Chapter 6: Kazan and Brando Chapter 7: Negulescos Muse Chapter 8: Femme Noir Chapter 9: No Time for Love Chapter 10: Surprising Girl in Surprise Wedding Chapter 11: Bye-Bye Hollywood Chapter 12: A Brief Comeback Chapter 13: Tranquility Acknowledgments Notes Filmography Selected Bibliography Index
Jean Peters: Hollywoods Mystery Girl promise to reveal her long-neglected story along with an in-depth analysis of each of her nineteen films and a glimpse into her fourteen-year marriage to the enigmatic and ultra-secretive billionaire Howard Hughes. -Retro Magazine
Michalangelo Capua’s Jean Peters: Hollywood’s Mystery Girl sheds a much-needed light on Peters’s life and career, as her story has often been overlooked. Capua offers a thoughtful exploration of her film career and personal triumphs, in addition to the complications she faced on a personal and professional scale. The book is supplemented with photographs that depict Peters throughout different stages of her career. -Hometowns to Hollywood
For about a dozen years following the end of the Second World War, Jean Peters was one of Hollywood’s brightest young leading ladies appearing opposite legends like Tyrone Power, Burt Lancaster, and Marlon Brando. Michelangelo Capua tells her long-neglected story and gives us an in-depth analysis of her nineteen films. Readers are sure to be delighted by the glimpse he provides into Peters’s fourteen-year marriage to the enigmatic and ultra-secretive billionaire Howard Hughes, who kept her nearly captive in the gilded cages of luxurious hotels and heavily guarded mansions. -Robert Dance, author of Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom and The Savvy Sphinx: How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
Author Michelangelo Capua’s marvelous Jean Peters: Hollywood’s Mystery Girl is a long-awaited definitive biography of possibly the most elusive and least known star of Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s. . . . The author has done his homework, giving the reader a truly insightful examination of the life and career of Jean Peters. -Stephen Michael Shearer, author of Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star and Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr
Michalangelo Capua’s Jean Peters: Hollywood’s Mystery Girl sheds a much-needed light on Peters’s life and career, as her story has often been overlooked. Capua offers a thoughtful exploration of her film career and personal triumphs, in addition to the complications she faced on a personal and professional scale. The book is supplemented with photographs that depict Peters throughout different stages of her career. -Hometowns to Hollywood
For about a dozen years following the end of the Second World War, Jean Peters was one of Hollywood’s brightest young leading ladies appearing opposite legends like Tyrone Power, Burt Lancaster, and Marlon Brando. Michelangelo Capua tells her long-neglected story and gives us an in-depth analysis of her nineteen films. Readers are sure to be delighted by the glimpse he provides into Peters’s fourteen-year marriage to the enigmatic and ultra-secretive billionaire Howard Hughes, who kept her nearly captive in the gilded cages of luxurious hotels and heavily guarded mansions. -Robert Dance, author of Ferocious Ambition: Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom and The Savvy Sphinx: How Garbo Conquered Hollywood
Author Michelangelo Capua’s marvelous Jean Peters: Hollywood’s Mystery Girl is a long-awaited definitive biography of possibly the most elusive and least known star of Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1940s and 1950s. . . . The author has done his homework, giving the reader a truly insightful examination of the life and career of Jean Peters. -Stephen Michael Shearer, author of Gloria Swanson: The Ultimate Star and Glamour and Style: The Beauty of Hedy Lamarr