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Jodie Foster:

a life on screen
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Carol Pub. Group, 1996 - Biography & Autobiography - 211 pages
An intimate examination of Jodie Foster's private and public lives addresses her entry into the Hollywood eye during her toddler years, early successes with Disney, prickly family life, attendance at Yale, and Academy Award-winning performances.

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Contents

The Father She Never Had
20
THREE From Disney Moppet to Yale Freshman
29
Foster the Student
100
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TitleJodie Foster: a life on screen
AuthorPhilippa Kennedy
Editionillustrated
PublisherCarol Pub. Group, 1996
ISBN1559723483, 9781559723480
Length211 pages
Subjects › 

Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Biography & Autobiography / General
Motion picture actors and actresses
Motion picture actors and actresses/ United States/ Biography
Motion picture producers and directors
Motion picture producers and directors/ United States/ Biography
Performing Arts / Individual Director
  
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