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Charlotte Chandler

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Charlotte Chandler specializes in biographies of notable film artists. As a writer for Kirkus Reviews wrote in a review of Chandler's book It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, a Personal Biography, Chandler's "method is to talk with every conceivable survivor who's ever worked with her subject." 

With her biography of Hitchcock, Chandler summarizes—in chronological order—the making of the director's fifty-three films, relying on stories and tidbits told to her by those who worked on the sets, including actors and crew members. While praising her thoroughness, the commentator for Kirkus Reviews stated, "What's missing is greater selectivity—Chandler dutifully summarizes even the most unrevealing interviews."Charlotte Chandler specializes in biographies of notable film artists. 

As a writer for Kirkus Reviews wrote in a review of Chandler's book It's Only a Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, a Personal Biography, Chandler's "method is to talk with every conceivable survivor who's ever worked with her subject." With her biography of Hitchcock, Chandler summarizes—in chronological order—the making of the director's fifty-three films, relying on stories and tidbits told to her by those who worked on the sets, including actors and crew members. While praising her thoroughness, the commentator for Kirkus Reviews stated, "What's missing is greater selectivity—Chandler dutifully summarizes even the most unrevealing interviews."

The author's biography of Billy Wilder, Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, a Personal Biography, was written in conjunction with the famed director. In a review for Reviewer's Bookwatch, Susan Bethany commented that, due to Wilder's participation, the biography was "close to an autobiography"; Bethany further referred to the writing as "witty" and "insightful." 

Chandler also collaborated with another of her subjects, Italian film director Federico Fellini, on a biography of him. Fourteen years of interviews with the subject, as well as with many celebrities who worked with him, resulted in I, Fellini. In his review of the book for America, Richard A. Blake called the work "massive." Written primarily in the first person, the work takes on an autobiographical tone, focusing more on the director as a person. Blake wrote, "Surprisingly, references to the films are sparse. To be fair, Charlotte Chandler … clearly intended to focus her attention on personalities rather than on film criticism."

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