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Open LibraryAbout this book
An account of the secret three-year love affair of 1920s movie star Gloria Swanson and businessman and political patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., provides a revealing portrait of two of the century's most famous people and a glimpse of Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties.
Themes & subjects
AmbassadorsRelations with menActorsBiographyRelations with womenKennedy, joseph p. (joseph patrick), 1888-1969
First published 1988Characters & people
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United States
About the author
Axel Madsen
1930 – 2007
Axel Madsen authored twenty-two books, including sixteen biographies. His most notable works include an in-depth look at the life of a legendary fashion icon, Chanel: A Woman of Her Own, and an investigation of the relationship between Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy. Madsen began his journalism career as a legman for columnist Art Buchwald in Paris, and later wrote one of the first books on television’s longest-running news magazine show, 60 Minutes: The Power and the Politics of America’s Most Popular TV News Show. As a 20th Century Fox publicist, he handled Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and George C. Scott, and …
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