Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley

by Jon Krampner

Book Overview

Between 1949 and 1964, Kim Stanley created starring roles in 12 broadway productions. Then after 15 years, of stardom, Stanley walked away from the theatre, never to return. 'Female Brando' traces Kim... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823088472
• ISBN13: 9780823088478
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Backstage Books
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

STILL HAUNTS ME A YEAR AFTER I READ IT

What a marvelous actress she was and what a book! Her Night Gallery episode "A Fear Of Spiders" is released in November 2008 when the second season of "Night Gallery" comes out on dvd. Night Gallery: Season Two

Beautiful

Jon Krampner's meticilously-researched biography captures the passion and the pain of this brilliant actress and her up-and-down career and her often sad personal life. Her amazing successes, her many romantic entanglements, and her slow degeneration during the early days of television and beyond are painted on the background of a star-studded New York. I recommend this book.

Kim Stanley revisited.

My years spent living in New York City enabled me to see great theatre, especially in the 1950's and 1960's. I first saw Kim Stanley in Bus Stop and was amazed and deeply touched by her performance. This book is very well written. The author lets us know about her acting techinique and what it cost her in her private life. This reader was caught up with her life experiences and became even more grateful to Kim for her unreserved sharing of her deepest feelings. Those who read this book will learn so much about themselves and the people around them. I highly recommend this book. Thelma Norton

A Female Brando

An excellent book, well-written and about an extraordinrty woman. The author has delved deep into the psyche of one of the best actresses of the mid 20th Century. Kim Stanley was the favorite of playwrights, tv writers and screenwriters because they knew she could and would deliver. She was "The Goddess" in Paddy Chayefski's brilliant movie of that name. What went wrong? What kept her from becoming a great star? It is all in this book. I recommend it to any one interested in the theatre, movies and the halcyon days of early TV. A must read for those who remember Kim Stanley and for those who love a good story about a woman with a fatal flaw.

A Tremendous Venture into a Monumental Unknown

Joe Krampner must be given a standing ovation for having sucessfullly tackled the Mt. Everest of American actresses of the 20th century--the immortal Kim Stanley. So little known about her, yet Krampner reveals so much of this talent that actually surpasses the male the title of the book enshrines. I still give it 5 stars in spite of Krampner's error that Stanley did not attend the Oscar ceremony for her nomination for FRANCES. She was there dressed in black with a black choker necklace. Although overweight and much older looking than her age-- everyone who viewed that ceremony had the opportunity to see the legend offstage, off live televison acting and off the big screen and what a delightful person she was.