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Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947), better known by the name Danielle Steel, is an American novelist, currently the best selling author alive and the fourth bestselling author of all time, with over 800 million copies sold.
Based in California for most of her career, Steel has produced several books a year, often juggling up to five projects at once. All her novels have been bestsellers, including those issued in hardback. Her formula is fairly consistent, often involving rich families facing a crisis, threatened by dark elements such as jail, fraud, blackmail and suicide. Steel has also published children's fiction and poetry, as well as raising funds for the treatment of mental disorders. Her books have been translated into 28 languages, with 22 adapted for television, including two that have received Golden Globe nominations.
Steel was born Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel in New York City, the only child of Norma da Câmara Stone dos Reis and John Schulein-Steel. Her father was a German Jewish immigrant, a descendant of owners of Löwenbräu beer. Her mother, born in Portugal, was the daughter of a diplomat. Steel was raised Catholic and had wanted to be a nun during her early years. She spent much of her childhood in France, where from an early age she was included in her parents' dinner parties, giving her an opportunity to observe the habits and lives of the wealthy and famous. Her parents divorced when she was eight, however, and she was raised primarily in New York City and Europe by her father, rarely seeing her mother.
Actors: Carl Reiner (actor), Mircea Monroe (actress), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Jay Mohr (actor), Jaleel White (actor), Barry Katz (producer), Tom Arnold (actor), Mike Jerome Putnam (actor), Michael Bower (actor), Nancy Olson (actress), Nick Nicotera (actor), Amy Paffrath (actress), Evan Ferrante (actor), Carly Steel (actress), Fabio (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jared Masters (actor), Jared Masters (director), Jared Masters (composer), Jared Masters (writer), Jared Masters (producer), Marshall Factora (actor), Kamuela Kim (actor), Mauricio Alexander (actor), Sarah Seeds (actress), Joe Quick (actor), Angel 11:11 (actor), Angel 11:11 (writer), Angel 11:11 (composer), Gerard Haitz (writer), Gerard Haitz (actor),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Short,Actors: Bill Billions (actor), Jeremy Rogers (editor), Jeremy Rogers (director), Gerardo Betancourt (composer), David Accampo (writer), David Accampo (producer), David Accampo (actor), Nikolas Ladimer (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short,Actors: David Lindabury (writer), David Lindabury (producer), David Lindabury (editor), David Lindabury (director), Seth Williams-Welch (miscellaneous crew), Jack Charlop (actor), Jack Charlop (producer), Melanie Boyd (producer), Ben Armstrong (actor), Melanie Boyd (actress), Valerie Parker (costume designer), Lance Worthington (actor), Madeleine Corrie (actress), D.J. Hofer (composer),
Plot: Daddy just wanted a beer (or twelve), some salty pork snacks, and a mouthful of his favorite chewing tobacco. But when his back-sassin' daughter Krystal accidentally brings home the Smokeless Configuration, all Hell breaks loose. There ain't nothin' like demons to change your life, and body, forever...
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Short,Actors: James Payton (actor), James Payton (miscellaneous crew), Robert Ashby (actor), Mark Aarons (editor), Paul Angunawela (director), Shelley Islam (actress), Vanessa Van-Yeboah (producer), Shehzad Chaudhary (writer), Jesse Fajemisin (actor), Daniel Fagerson (producer),
Genres: Musical, Short,Actors: Kyle Marsh (producer), Kyle Marsh (actress), Kent Kreiger (director), Lea Cappelli (actress), Kent Kreiger (editor), Tonetta McCabe (producer), Tonetta McCabe (actress), Jo Sparkes (producer), Jo Sparkes (writer), John Gibson (composer), Greg Michael Anderson (actor), Jessica Seiferth (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Anupam Shyam (actor), Sushma Seth (actress), Shriya Saran (actress), Zohra Segal (actress), Dolly Ahluwalia (actress), Vaseem Ahmed Dehlvi (producer), Vaseem Ahmed Dehlvi (director), Himani Dehlvi (actress), Paritosh Sand (actor), Manini M. Mishra (actress), Rahul Vohra (actor), Supriya Shukla (actress), Sadia Dehlvi (actress), Farhad Ahmed Dehlvi (actor), Sadia Dehlvi (writer),
Plot: If the Ahmeds have a collective motto at all, it is, 'Mind Everybody's Business'. From Amma to Abdul, everyone is forever getting involved in everyone else's problems, work, business, hassles, happiness, whatever. But they are not very good at co-ordinating their efforts. As a result, they often end up working at cross purposes. Matters are frequently complicated by a motley collection of allied characters - relatives, friends, envious neighbors, old flames, new suitors, perfect strangers, etc. - who compound the family's already dangerous propensity for disaster. As each situation develops, the collapse of the Raees Ahmed family seems imminent. Disaster is averted, but only in the nick of time and at any rate not before the members of the family have been on an emotional roller coaster ride that leaves them breathless and the television audience in splits.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Daryl Haney (writer), Daryl Haney (actor), Robert V. Barron (actor), Raymond J. Barry (actor), Roger Corman (producer), Harriet Medin (actress), Paul Linke (actor), Dan Shor (actor), Ellen Gerstein (actress), Hinton Battle (actor), Ellen Gerstein (actress), Christian Clemenson (actor), Norman Hollyn (editor), David Halver (miscellaneous crew), Linda Shayne (actress),
Plot: A dark comedy set in 1930s America. Jimmy and Christie become celebrity bank robbers whose stardom ends in a bloody shootout when Daddy's Boys catch up with them.
Keywords: bank-robbery, barstow-california, brother-brother-relationship, clan, crime-spree, crucifixion-threat, dead-mother, dead-wife, falling-in-love, family-relationshipsActors: Taija Rae (actress), Jerry Butler (actor), Jose Duval (actor), Fred J. Lincoln (actor), Henri Pachard (director), George Payne (actor), Rick Marx (writer), Joey Silvera (actor), Paul Thomas (actor), Danielle (actress), Renee Summers (actress), Bobby Astyr (actor), Honey Wilder (actress), Brooke Fields (actress), Annette Heinz (actress),
Genres: Adult, Comedy,Actors: Tony Barry (actor), Roger Ward (actor), Jason Donovan (actor), Dennis Miller (actor), Sigrid Thornton (actress), Rob Steele (actor), Peter Hosking (actor), Reg Gorman (actor), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (actor), Reg Evans (actor), Maurie Fields (actor), Sandy Gore (actress), Don Barker (actor), Terry Gill (actor), John Murphy (actor),
Plot: We follow the life of Alan Marshall who was struck down by Polio as a child and it shows how he overcame the crippling effects of the disease. It traces his life from childhood into early adulthood. Based upon his trilogy of autobiographical books "I can Jump Puddles", "This is the Grass" and "In Mine Own Heart".
Keywords: based-on-novel, period-drama, period-piece“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” Considered one of the most popular authors of modern times Danielle Steel is a literary giant of romantic fiction, with over 800million copies of her works sold worldwide. Successfully translated into 28 languages, Danielle Steel's epic tales of forbidden love and sweeping tragedy, of rich and conniving families weaving tapestries of blackmail, fraud and deception have entertained audiences for forty years. Fine Things (137mins) Bernie (D.W Moffatt) marries stunning divorcee Liz (Tracy Pollan) and for a time family life together is blissfully happy until Liz is fatally stricken with cancer soon after the birth of their son. Kaleidoscope (88mins) Hilary (Jaclyn Smith) and her two younger sisters are torn apart after the death of their ...
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” CHERYL LADD (Charlie's Angels) and MICHAEL NOURI (Flashdance) star in this highly-charged romantic drama about two successful single parents who fall in love and have to confront many new and traumatic changes in their lives. Melanie is a top TV news reporter, living in New York with her twin teenage daughters. Peter is a handsome and divorced heart surgeon working at an L.A. hospital with three children of his own. A chance meeting leads to instant romance and eventual marriage, bringing about drastic changes in their lives - not all of them good. The clash of their careers is nothing compared to the storm of emotions that is unleashed when all five children have to share the same home and a whole new set of ground rules. The family disha...
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” In this heart-rending story of love and strength, a beautiful Hollywood actress and a handsome young Lieutenant meet, fall in love and marry. They appear to have it all - passion, talent, wealth and four beautiful children. A look into their family album, however, tells a different story. All the love and happiness in the world cannot suppress Ward's playboy tendencies. He spends far more than he can afford and drowns his sorrows in the arms of other women. Very soon he has lost his family fortune, his devoted wife, Faye, and the respect of his children. Struggling to bring up the children alone, Faye returns to Hollywood and rebuilds her career. As the years pass, the children grow up and take charge of their own lives. But can Faye an...
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” The lives of celebrities are often as steamy and dramatic off-screen as they are in front of the cameras. The glossy new TV drama Manhattan seems destined to be overshadowed by the behind the scenes lives of its stars and crew. In fact, successful producer Max Wexler (Christopher Plummer), seems to be the only person without a dark secret lurking in his past. But then, he has just embarked on a red-hot affair with the show's star Sabina (Stephanie Beacham).
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” An enduring and tragic love story that follows the life of a popular American novelist Daphne Fields (Lindsay Wagner), struggling to come to terms with bringing up her deaf son alone after the heart-break of losing her husband and daughter in a house-fire. As the only reminder of the family she once had, she devotes her life to her son's upbringing with outstanding courage, forever putting his happiness before her own. She finds strength in Dr. Matt Dane (Barry Bostwick), who is dedicated to the care and attention of death children. He offers support and comfort as her writing career takes off and she is forced to make many personal sacrifices. But Daphne is scared. Scared that she will never find the happiness she once had and scared th...
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” Bill Grant (John Ritter, Three's Company) is the popular producer of a top TV soap but, separated from his ex-wife and two young sons, he badly misses family life. Adriane (Polly Draper, Thirtysomething) is a happily married news executive at the same TV station. But, when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, her child-phobic husband deserts her rather than compromise his career with the responsibilities of parenthood.
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” As war rages in Europe, Ariana flees to New York in search of a new beginning. This incredible epic follows the tragic yet inspirational life of Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski), a woman who gains strength and courage as a young girl coming of age in pre-war Germany. As the daughter of an upper-class Berlin family, Ariana watches her family and her country torn apart at the hands of impending war. Aware of the dangerous political climate, her father helps Ariana's brother to escape to Switzerland. He returns to rescue Ariana, but he is brutally killed as a traitor. Unsure of her father and brother's fate, Ariana is now truly alone. She seeks comfort in the arms of a German soldier, but the harsh war claims him as yet another victim...
“Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au” The year is 1912. Aboard the luxurious ocean liner, Titanic, the Winfields have a lot to celebrate. They toast the engagement of their daughter, Edwina, and her sister's sixth birthday. As the glamorous evening draws to an end, the family finds themselves in their worst nightmare as the ill-fated ship crashes into an iceberg and slowly sinks. Edwina's life is town apart as her fiance and her parents are lost. Returning to Boston, Edwina struggles to save her family's crumbling newspaper empire, while supporting and raising her siblings. For the next 12 years she puts her personal life on hold and dedicates herself to keeping her family together. Now, Edwina has a last chance at happiness when she meets a man on her first Atlantic trip ...
The prolific, best-selling novelist has a new book, Legacy, on sale now. Danielle Steel will now take your questions.
Danielle Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American romantic novelist and author of mainstream dramas. Best known for drama and romance novels, she has sold more than 800 million copies of her books (as of 2005) worldwide and is the eighth best selling writer of all time, and is currently the bestselling author alive. Her novels have been on the New York Times bestseller list for over 390 consecutive weeks and 22 have been adapted for television. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages and can be found in 47 countries across the globe. The books tend to involve the characters in a crisis of some sort which threatens their relationship. The novels sometimes explore the world of the "rich and famous" and frequently deal with serious life issues, like illness, death, loss, family...
The prolific bestselling author chats with "GMA" co-anchor Robin Roberts about her latest book, "Property of a Noblewoman." SUBSCRIBE to GMA ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH1oRy1dINbMVp3UFWrKP0w/subscribe To read the full story and others, visit http://www.goodmorningamerica.com Good Morning America (GMA) brings viewers an award-winning combination of breaking news, exclusive investigations, hard hitting interviews, weather forecasts, cutting edge medical field information, and financial reporting every morning. Join Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Lara Spencer, Michael Strahan, Amy Robach and Ginger Zee weekdays at 7am on ABC. Follow GMA across the web-- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodMorningAmerica Twitter: https://twitter.com/GMA?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5E...
Maggie Rodriguez spoke with author Danielle Steel about writing her 113th book, "Legacy."
Danielle Steel is a super-successful author... but apparently there are three other authors that put her accomplishments to shame.
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From Manhattan to Paris and all the way to Tehran, Family Ties is a novel that reminds us how challenging and unpredictable life can be, and that the powerful bonds of family are the strongest of all. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385343169
In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385343183
Tom Perkins discusses his book "Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins" and his ex-wife, Danielle Steel SUBSCRIBE to get the latest from Charlie Rose: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseSUBSCRIBE Connect with Charlie Rose Online: Visit the Charlie Rose WEBSITE: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseDotCom Like Charlie Rose on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseFacebook Follow Charlie Rose on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseTwitter Follow Charlie Rose on INSTAGRAM: http://bit.ly/CharlieRoseInstagram About Charlie Rose: Emmy award winning journalist Charlie Rose has been praised as "one of America's premier interviewers." He is the host of Charlie Rose, the nightly PBS program that engages America's best thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders, scientists and other newsmak...
Danielle Steel talks about her latest book, Legacy.
Written by Lili Haydn & Jeffrey Connor
Trying to save the world while your daddy is dying
with your safety net
Everything's changed, now my songs make you cry and
I feel you, Daddy I feel you, Daddy
Fed by your father, your days were your own
you're on your own now
Head in the starts, now I'm fully grown, but