Event Listing - Literary Arts
Tue Nov 20, 2007

MATTHEW KENNEDY

Talk & booksigning for "Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes"


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Location
Date and Time
The Booksmith
1644 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117 map
cross street: Clayton
district: Haight (Upper)

Tue Nov 20, 2007 (7 pm)

Description
Joan Blondell: A Life Between Takes (hardback, $30.00), by local film historian Matthew Kennedy, is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, and radio. Kennedy’s book offers extensive research and insights gained from the cooperation of Blondell’s friends, family, and colleagues – this new book is a must read for anyone interested in early Hollywood.

Matthew Kennedy teaches anthropology at the City College of San Francisco and film history at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is the author of Marie Dressler: A Biography and Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory: Hollywood's Genius Bad Boy.