How to Be a Movie Star（ISBN=） 英文原版

William J. Mann, author of the bestselling Kate: The Woman
Who Was Hepburn, has now turned his attention to Elizabeth
Taylor, the quintessential movie star, and uses her biography to
reveal the machinations of stardom and fame, from the studio era of
Hollywood through the 1970s.  How to Be a Movie Star is
a totally fresh, brilliantly researched, and reported portrait of
Elizabeth Taylor, as she became our first superstar.  It is
also a fascinating revelation of cadre that got her there, from her
mother to her managers, publicists, gossip columnists, and early
paparazzi–and, not least of all, herself.

Swathed in mink, sailing aboard her yachts, discarding husbands
nearly as frequently as she changed diamond earrings, Taylor
dominated the headlines for three glittering decades, rewriting
rules, defying conventions, laying down the yardstick by which
celebrity has been measured ever since.  Focusing on the most
glamorous period in Taylor’s career, Mann takes us inside her
privileged childhood in England to her schooling on the MGM lot
(alongside Judy Garland), through her work in National Velvet,
Giant, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Cleopatra, Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, among other
films.  Whether it is her studio-arranged first marriage to
Nicky Hilton (timed to create publicity for her film father of
the Bride), the Eddie-Debbie-Liz scandal, or scandalous Italian
romance with Richard Burton during the filming of Cleopatra,
Mann offers the full, intimate account of how the actress turned
into an icon.  More unexpectedly is the emergence of Taylor
not as the passionate, impulsive creature of circumstance depicted
by previous bios, but instead a smart, shrewd player of the
celebrity game who took the lessons taught by the incomparable MGM
publicity masters and used them to craft her own public image in
the post-studio world–a world she herself helped create, as the
first female star to get a million dollars a picture and to work
for a percentage of the gross.

With the help of major new interviews and never-before-tapped
sources, How to Be a Movie Star tells us everything we need
to know about fame and public life in the twentieth century dress
in the irresistible guise of the last unrivalled star.

William J. Mann is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was
Hepburn, which received extraordinary acclaim when it was
published in 2006 and was named a New York Times Notable
Book.  Mann Has worked as a freelance journalist and editor,
and has written several other works of fiction and nonfiction,
including the 1999 Lambda Literary Award Winner Wisecracker: The
Life and Times of William Haines, the story of the early
Hollywood icon and interior decorator to the stars.
Born in Connecticut, Mann worked briefly in Washington D.C. as a
Capitol Hill aide before receiving his Masters degree at Wesleyan
University.  He divides his time between Provincetown,
Massachusetts and Palm Springs, California.

Prologue: How to Be a Movie Star
1. When in Rome  
2. Educating a Movie Star 
3. The Most Exciting Girl
4. Acting Out 
5. Over the Top  
6. Protecting Interests  
7. A Second Chance on Life 
8. No Deodorant Like Success
9. Rewriting the Rules  
Epilogue: How to Stay a Movie Star
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index