• Donald Spoto (June 28, 1941 – February 11, 2023) was an American biographer and theologian. He was known for his biographies of people in the worlds of...
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    his research has been criticized by biographers Donald Spoto and Sarah Churchwell. According to Spoto, Summers contradicts himself, presents false information...
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    register lists his year of birth as 1900 rather than 1899; biographer Donald Spoto says he was deliberately enrolled as a ten-year-old because he was a...
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     302–303. Spoto 2001, pp. 301–302. Spoto 2001, p. 338. Spoto 2001, p. 302. Spoto 2001, p. 327. Spoto 2001, p. 350. Spoto 2001, pp. 310–313. Spoto 2001, pp...
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    skater John Curry, as detailed in Donald Spoto's authorised biography Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates. Spoto characterised Bates's sexuality as...
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    Spoto, Donald (1983). The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-31680-723-4. Spoto, Donald...
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    artistically, and to represent a heightened thematic maturity. His biographer, Donald Spoto, writes that "Notorious is in fact Alfred Hitchcock's first attempt—at...
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    Pas. Retrieved March 1, 2023. Spoto, Donald; Forshaw, Barry (May 28, 2009). "Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto". The Times. UK. Archived from...
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  • children, one of whom was named Norma Jeane. According to biographer Donald Spoto, Baker visited the children once in Kentucky and then had "infrequent...
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  • as Tippi Hedren and Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies...
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