Celebrity Classics

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    • Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
    • By: Anne Helen Peterson
    • Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Based on Anne Helen Petersen's popular column on the Hairpin, Scandals of Classic Hollywood is sensationalism made smart....

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    • The Composer and His Work
    • By: Christoph Wolff
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art....

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    • A Life in Nine Pieces
    • By: Laura Tunbridge
    • Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him....

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    • The Lost World of Film Noir
    • By: Eddie Muller
    • Narrated by: Eddie Muller, Erin Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • This revised and expanded edition of Eddie Muller's Dark City is a film noir lover's bible, listeners on a tour of the urban landscape of the grim and gritty genre in a definitive volume....

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    • The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
    • By: Charles King
    • Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King comes the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah.

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    • By: Lauren Bacall
    • Narrated by: Lauren Bacall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • The epitome of grace, independence, and wit, Lauren Bacall continues to astound generations with her audacious spirit and on-screen excellence....

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    • A Musical Wayfarer
    • By: Lorraine Byrne Bodley
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Lorraine Byrne Bodley takes a detailed look into Schubert's life, and provides an insightful biography of the great composer, revealing his complex and fascinating private life alongside his musical genius....

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    • By: Darren Henley
    • Narrated by: Marin Alsop
    • Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

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    • A Life and Times
    • By: Dr. Alan Walker
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • Based on 10 years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., this is a landmark biography of the Polish composer by Alan Walker, a leading authority on Fryderyk Chopin and his time....

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    • A Love Story, in Music Lessons
    • By: Jeremy Denk
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Denk
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • In Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico....

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    • Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder (Screen Classics)
    • By: Robert Crane, Christopher Fryer
    • Narrated by: Bobby Brill
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this poignant memoir, Robert Crane discusses that terrible day and how he has lived with the unsolved murder of his father....

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    • Authorized and Revised Edition
    • By: Jacky Smith, Jim Jenkins
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • The original edition of this revered and authorized Queen biography explored every aspect of the legendary group’s career from inception to 1992....

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    • The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
    • By: Daniel de Visé
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings
    • A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs....

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    • Turner Classic Movies
    • By: Carla Valderrama
    • Narrated by: Carla Valderrama
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 536 ratings
    • From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age....

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    • The Art and Alchemy of Conducting
    • By: John Mauceri
    • Narrated by: John Mauceri
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • An exuberant, uniquely accessible look inside the enigmatic art and craft of conducting, from a celebrated conductor whose international career has spanned half a century....

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    • Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics
    • By: Sydney Ladensohn Stern
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Herman J. (1897-1953) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909-1993) wrote, produced, and directed over 150 pictures. With Orson Welles, Herman wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane and shared the picture's only Academy Award....

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