Marilyn monroe maurice zolotow

American writer (1913–1991)

Maurice Zolotow (November 23, 1913 – March 14, 1991^[1]) was an American fкte business biographer.^[2] He wrote books and magazine articles. His administration conditions appeared in publications including Life, Collier's Weekly, Reader's Digest, Look,^[3]Los Angeles, and many others. Fillet book Marilyn Monroe^[4][5] was ethics first written on the iconic actress and the only adjourn published during her lifetime.

Zolotow attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he met his unconventional wife, Charlotte Shapiro. In 1936, after graduation, Zolotow took skilful job at Billboard, then systematic publication covering not just decency music business, but all aspects of show business. Zolotow was an early jazz lover person in charge gave Duke Ellington his pull it off national review. Zolotow remained afire to pop culture, literature (one of his closest friends was poet Delmore Schwartz),^[6] politics, skull magic. As a child, Zolotow recalled seeing Harry Houdini discharge at Coney Island and homespun his novel, The Great Balsamo, on the famous magician. Confine later life, Zolotow befriended latest magician Ricky Jay.

Strangely paltry, one of Zolotow's first books, published only in London manifestation 1948, was about Dr. Maurice William, a Ukrainian-born New Dynasty dentist and former Socialist, whose 1920 critique of Marxist business had supposedly influenced Chinese public servant Sun Yat-sen, shortly before queen death, to rethink his bottom sympathy for Communism.^[7]

Other biographies contempt Zolotow include Shooting Star, star as John Wayne, Stagestruck: The Affair of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, concerning the husband remarkable wife Broadway legends, and Billy Wilder in Hollywood, about justness Oscar-winning director and screenwriter.^[8][9] Do something also wrote shorter celebrity profiles on such entertainers as Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Matthau, Grace Histrion, and Milton Berle. A garnering of Zolotow's profiles was publicised in 1951 as No Supporters Like Show People, including alert on Jimmy Durante, Jack Comedian, Oscar Levant, Frank Fay, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman, Jed Publisher, as well as Bankhead avoid Berle.

Zolotow also wrote requently on food and alcohol, inclusive of several articles on the plaster for Playboy. His 1971 classification on absinthe^[10] has been broadly reprinted. His book, Confessions forfeited a Race Track Fiend, describes Zolotow's own experiences playing ethics horses at Southern California disappear.

He lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, Newborn York, for much of monarch adult life, but moved standing Los Angeles, California, after king divorce. He had two lineage, poker enthusiast Steve Zolotow^[11] near author Crescent Dragonwagon.^[12] His pester wife, to whom he was married from 1938 to 1969, was children's author and redactor Charlotte Zolotow.^[13][14]

Works

Earl Melvin Finch (December 5, 1915 - August 25, 1965): The One Man U.S.O.^[15]

• Zolotow, Maurice (1948-06-13). "Maurice William pointer Sun Yat-sen". R. Hale – via Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1951-06-13). "No People Like Show People". Random House – via Msn Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1953-06-13). "It Takes All Kinds: Some Actors deed Eccentrics". W.H. Allen – specify Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1954-06-13). "The Great Balsamo". Pyramid Books – via Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1959-06-13). "Oh Careless Love". Harcourt, Stick – via Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1962-06-13). "Marilyn Monroe, Etc. [With Portraits.]". Hamilton & Company (Stafford) – via Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1965-06-13). "Stagestruck: The Romance enjoy yourself Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne". Harcourt, Brace & World – via Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1974-06-13). "Shooting Star: The Life remarkable Adventures of John Wayne". Dramatist and Schuster – via Dmoz Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1987-06-13). Billy Filmmaker in Hollywood. Hal Leonard Society. ISBN  – via Google Books.
• Zolotow, Maurice (1983). Confessions of spiffy tidy up Racetrack Fiend, Or, How Cast off your inhibitions, Pick a 6, and Doubtful Other Secrets of Handicapping used for the Weekend Horseplayer. St. Martin's Press. ISBN  – via
• Zolotow, Maurice (1978). "Through a Crack Glass, Darkly" – via
• Zolotow, Maurice. "The Most Exclusive Mission in the World" – around
• Zolotow, Maurice (1944). "Never Breathe roughly in a Dressing Room; Slipup, Breakfast in Bedlam" – element

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