The Resource Miss Aluminium : a memoir, Susanna Moore
Miss Aluminium : a memoir, Susanna Moore
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The item Miss Aluminium : a memoir, Susanna Moore represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item Miss Aluminium : a memoir, Susanna Moore represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- On her first night in Los Angeles, the modelturnedauthor Susanna Moore slept in a broom cupboard. She was 21, and had been flown in by a producer to appear in the 1967 Dean Martin spy comedy, The Ambushers. Prior to this she had been working as a fashion model and was helping to put her husband, Bill, through college in Chicago. With barely a cent to her name, she arrived to find the hotel was not expecting her. The desk clerk took pity and sent her to the fourth floor where there was a tiny closet crammed with bleach, toilet brushes and mops. There Moore bedded down on a small rusty cot, the smell of ammonia in her nostrils. Despite this inauspicious start, she was "neither worried nor afraid", and soon resolved to leave her husband and make LA her home. Moore's poignant and hugely entertaining memoir Miss Aluminium the title refers to an early modelling job for the Aluminum Association where she was squeezed into a scratchy silver dress and made to carry a cardboard trident covers her unconventional early years before she found her calling as a writer. (Moore's first novel, My Old Sweetheart, a fictionalised version of her life, was published in 1982 while her bestselling 1995 novel, In the Cut, was made into a film by Jane Campion.) This memoir documents her childhood in Hawaii blighted by the death of her mother and the neglect of her philandering father; her escape to her grandmother's home in Philadelphia aged 17; and her subsequent adventures in New York, Chicago and California
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Miss Aluminium : a memoir
- Title
- Miss Aluminium
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Susanna Moore
- Subject
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- Models (Persons) -- United States -- Biography
- Moore, Susanna
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- California | Los Angeles -- Anecdotes
- Motion picture industry -- California | Los Angeles -- Anecdotes
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- On her first night in Los Angeles, the modelturnedauthor Susanna Moore slept in a broom cupboard. She was 21, and had been flown in by a producer to appear in the 1967 Dean Martin spy comedy, The Ambushers. Prior to this she had been working as a fashion model and was helping to put her husband, Bill, through college in Chicago. With barely a cent to her name, she arrived to find the hotel was not expecting her. The desk clerk took pity and sent her to the fourth floor where there was a tiny closet crammed with bleach, toilet brushes and mops. There Moore bedded down on a small rusty cot, the smell of ammonia in her nostrils. Despite this inauspicious start, she was "neither worried nor afraid", and soon resolved to leave her husband and make LA her home. Moore's poignant and hugely entertaining memoir Miss Aluminium the title refers to an early modelling job for the Aluminum Association where she was squeezed into a scratchy silver dress and made to carry a cardboard trident covers her unconventional early years before she found her calling as a writer. (Moore's first novel, My Old Sweetheart, a fictionalised version of her life, was published in 1982 while her bestselling 1995 novel, In the Cut, was made into a film by Jane Campion.) This memoir documents her childhood in Hawaii blighted by the death of her mother and the neglect of her philandering father; her escape to her grandmother's home in Philadelphia aged 17; and her subsequent adventures in New York, Chicago and California
- Biography type
- autobiography
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- Moore, Susanna
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Moore, Susanna
- Women authors, American
- Authors, American
- Models (Persons)
- Motion picture industry
- Motion picture actors and actresses
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Miss Aluminium : a memoir, Susanna Moore
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 273 pages
- Isbn
- 9781474619080
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- Label
- Miss Aluminium : a memoir, Susanna Moore
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- 273 pages
- Isbn
- 9781474619080
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
Subject
- Models (Persons) -- United States -- Biography
- Moore, Susanna
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- California | Los Angeles -- Anecdotes
- Motion picture industry -- California | Los Angeles -- Anecdotes
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Autobiographies
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