Geena Davis
Autor de Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Geena Davis
Obras de Geena Davis
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Davis, Virginia Elizabeth
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-01-21
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Boston University
- Ocupaciones
- actor
- Relaciones
- Goldblum, Jeff (former spouse)
Harlin, Renny (former spouse) - Premios y honores
- Academy Award
Golden Globe Award
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 3
- También por
- 32
- Miembros
- 118
- Popularidad
- #167,490
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 14
- Idiomas
- 1
Her parents were very resourceful. They were very frugal, grew their own food, wasted nothing. She was trained to never show any needs. She should never ask for anything. If someone offered her a glassful of ice water, she should say, “No, thank you. I’m not thirsty.”
That became a major problem as she grew up. Some of the requests of her, especially in Los Angeles, put her into unsavory positions.
Being in movies helped her learn how to be more assertive and self-possessed. In DYING OF POLITENESS, she relates what she learned from each of the roles she played and the people who helped her along the way.
In addition to her career, she also discusses her marriages and, briefly, becoming a mother when she was in her middle forties.
The last part of the book is about her actions to get the movie and television industry to end gender stereotyping. Up to then, girls, if they were included at all, were treated as ornaments or helpers to the males who got all the action. The men running the industry didn’t even realize that was happening. She helped change that.
DYING OF POLITENESS is an overview of the experiences in Geena Davis’s life that helped her become the person she is. One of the main one is discovering her strengths. I would have liked more depth in some areas.… (más)