Hugo Vickers, Author . St. Martin's $28.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-28886-0
A chain-smoking, nearly deaf princess who ministered to the sick in Greek hospitals and soup kitchens, was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic at age 45, fancied herself a nun and sheltered a Jewish family during the Holocaust (for which she was...
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Hugo Vickers, Author Little Brown and Company $22.95 (411p) ISBN 978-0-316-90245-8
Vivien Leigh's life was packed with the stuff of compelling biography: beauty, talent, glamour, wit, intelligence, romance, madness. Vickers ( Cecil Beaton ), however, has gone no further in his re-creation than to organize his notes into chapters...
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Hugo Vickers, Author Random House (NY) $25 (333p) ISBN 978-0-679-41301-1
Vickers fails in his attempt to demystify Greta Garbo. Clearly he found more material than he could use while researching Cecil Beaton , his biography of the famed photographer of British royals and other glitterati, but still not enough for a...
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Hugo Vickers, Author, Fritz von der Schulenberg, Photographer, Joseph Friedman, Introduction by Abbeville Press $67.5 (239p) ISBN 978-0-7892-0226-0
When the Duchess of Windsor died in 1986, the lease of her Paris villa, near the Bois de Boulogne, and its contents had to be disposed of. Along came Mohamed Al Fayed, the Egyptian-born owner of Harrods, ""the international businessman and...
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