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James Spada


Born
in New York, New York, The United States
January 23, 1950

Died
January 03, 2009

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As a thirteen-year-old kid in Staten Island, James Spada started the first Marilyn Monroe Memorial Fan Club. He produced four bulletins and one yearbook a year for four years, when he had to disband the club due to lack of money.

In college he founded EMK: The Edward M. Kennedy Quarterly, and worked as an intern in Senator Kennedy’s Boston office in 1970.

At 23 his first book, Barbra: The First Decade (The Films and Career of Barbra Streisand), was published. He followed that up with the authorized book The Films of Robert Redford. He went on to write illustrated coffee-table books about Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Midler, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty, and Jane Fonda.

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BOOK SIGNING/HELLO, DOLLY! SCREENING A BIG SUCCESS.





I appeared at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood last night (11/1) to sign copies of "Streisand: In the Camera Eye" and introduce a screening of "Hello, Dolly!" It was great to meet other Barbra fans, and the movie was, as always, a delight! Read more of this blog post »
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“could possibly be.”
James Spada, Grace Kelly: The Secret Life of a Princess

“Gli anni della scuola superiore sono tra i più felici oppure un periodo che si aspetta solo che finisca. Per Grace sembra che sia stato in buona misura un periodo di questo genere.”
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“nationality present no”
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