Books by Kathleen Brady and Complete Book Reviews
Kathleen Brady, Author Hyperion Books $24.45 (397p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6007-4
Featured mainly in B-movies in the 1930s at RKO, leading lady in several MGM films in the '40s, Lucille Ball was never a ``star,'' but she became the Queen of TV with I Love Lucy, first aired in 1951. In this evenhanded, serious look at America's...
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Kathleen Brady, Author Hyperion Books $14.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8122-2
A biography of one of television's enduring stars, chronicling her early years at Hollywood studios, her tempestuous marriage to Desi Arnaz and their triumph with I Love Lucy. (Sept.)
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Kathleen Brady. Lodwin, $25.99 (374p) ISBN 978-1-73754-980-2
Biographer Brady (Lucille: The Life of Lucille Ball) delivers an intriguing if somewhat ponderous dual portrait of the 13th-century Catholic saints Francis of Assisi and his follower, Clare of Assisi. Born into a middle-class merchant family,...
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