Sharon Tate
Subtitle: a life
By: Ed Sanders ; illustrations by Rick Veitch
Contributors: Veitch, Rick, illustrator
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780306818899
Subjects: Murder victims; Actors; Models (Persons); Biography
Description: "In 1971, Ed Sanders published The Family, his insider's account of the Manson family murders; it was an immediate sensation. Using the same investigative skills and insider contacts that informed his counterculture classic, Sanders delivers the definitive account of the brief and tragic life of Sharon Tate. The biography takes a close look at Tate's life-from her itinerant childhood and early career in fashion to her transition to film, passionate marriage to the brilliant and troubled Roman Polanski, and violent murder at the hands of the Manson family cult. Sanders's Sharon Tate offers new insights into what happened on the night of her death and explores new motives for the targeting of the Polanski household. Illustrated with Rick Veitch's evocative images, Sharon Tate is required reading for anyone fascinated by the dark side of the '60s. "--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Early years; title: Discovered by a producer; title: Early films: Eye of the Devil, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Don't Make Waves; title: 1967: the year of love, dolls, rosemary; title: 1968: marriage and rising in Hollywood; title: 1969: Cielo Drive and pregnancy; title: Sharon's final film; title: The summer of 1969; title: A cult at the Spahn Ranch kills; title: Sharon Tate's final few days; title: Death on Cielo Drive; title: Night and morning; title: August 9-10: more carnage and grief; title: Aftermath and investigation; title: The Manson group keeps killing and moves to the high desert near Death Valley; title: The breaking of the case.