Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), February 29th, 2008
Byline: Cathie Beck, Special to the Rocky
Not the Girl Next Door
* Nonfiction. By Charlotte Chandler. Simon & Schuster, $26. Grade: B+
Book in a nutshell: This consummate celebrity biographer (of Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman and Groucho Marx, to name a few) has taken on yet another uber- legend. This time it's Joan Crawford, the larger-than-life superstar of the first half (and part of the second) of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with Crawford, as well as reminiscences of those who knew her, Chandler has created an intimate, frank and studied portrait of the Hollywood icon.
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