In this Book
- Stars in My Eyes
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
Stars in My Eyes is a revealing and entertaining collection of celebrity portraits, rendered both in acute drawings and in finely observed prose. In the 1970s and 1980s, internationally known artist Don Bachardy made portraits from life, depicting the actors, writers, artists, composers, directors, and Hollywood elite that he and his partner Christopher Isherwood knew. He then made detailed notes about these portrait sittings in the journal he has kept for more than forty years. The result is a unique document: we enter the mind of the artist as he records the images and behavior of his celebrity subjects—from Ruby Keeler and Barbara Stanwyck to Jack Nicholson and Linda Ronstadt—during their often intense collaboration with him.
Finalist, Lambda Literary Foundation Book Award
Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 3-14
- Bette Davis
- pp. 15-26
- Paulette Goddard
- pp. 33-36
- Alice Faye
- pp. 37-48
- Ruby Keeler
- pp. 49-56
- Ginger Rogers
- pp. 57-78
- Aaron Copland
- pp. 79-84
- Joan Blondell
- pp. 85-92
- Ingrid Bergman
- pp. 93-98
- Alec Guinness
- pp. 99-104
- Peter Pears
- pp. 105-108
- Charlotte Rampling
- pp. 109-114
- Joan Fontaine
- pp. 115-122
- Maggie Smith
- pp. 123-126
- Louise Brooks
- pp. 127-136
- James Merrill
- pp. 137-140
- Barbara Stanwyck
- pp. 141-150
- Olivia de Havilland
- pp. 151-156
- Mia Farrow
- pp. 157-162
- Linda Ronstadt
- pp. 163-170
- Irwin Shaw
- pp. 171-176
- Iris Murdoch
- pp. 177-184
- Henry Fonda
- pp. 185-190
- William Wyler
- pp. 191-194
- Vincente Minnelli
- pp. 195-200
- Laurence Olivier
- pp. 201-206
- Julian Schnabel
- pp. 207-212
- Ellsworth Kelly
- pp. 213-218
- Jill St. John
- pp. 219-224
- Allen Ginsberg
- pp. 225-232
- Jack Nicholson
- pp. 233-240
- Helmut Newton
- pp. 241-244
- Jerry Brown
- pp. 245-262
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2011