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OASIS OF FAITH - The Souls Behind the Billboard
— Mary Claire Kendall, with foreword by Mother Dolores Hart
Highlighting legends of Hollywood including Ethel Barrymore (and secondarily Lionel and John), James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Alec Guinness and Jack Lemmon, Oasis of Faith: The Souls Behind the Billboard — Barrymore, Cagney, Tracy, Stewart, Guinness & Lemmon, is Mary Claire Kendall’s second in a series of portraits of all-too-human stars who took great weakness and turned it into great art. Most found solace in the Catholic faith they were born into, or converted to in the case of the Barrymores and Guinness. All had a strong spiritual core and faith in God at the heart of their success, which helped them cope when life took a darker turn. As Ethel Barrymore said, “(W)hen life knocks you to your knees… well, that’s the best position in which to pray…”
Paperback. 366 pages.