UNDRESSING EMMANUELLE EB

Sylvia Kristel

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN: 9780007256969
• eBook ISBN: 9780007282982
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

The candid and heartbreakingly honest memoir of Sylvia Kristel, the cinema icon of the 1970s who played the lead role in the worldwide sensation erotic Emmanuelle films.

1974: After a year of wrangling with the censors, the erotic film, Emmanuelle, is a blockbuster sensation on release in France and a box office triumph around the world from Japan to the States. The image that adorned cinemas across the world was of an unknown 20 year old posing naked, innocent and vulnerable on a wicker chair. Overnight Sylvia Kristel was propelled into international superstardom (at the height of her fame she was invited to address the Brazilian parliament) and turned into an icon of sexual liberation.

Sylvia Kristel was born of a dysfunctional family and an impossibly strict religious education. But having won the Miss TV Europe competition in 1973 she was driven by her own ambition to be an actress on the world stage and auditioned for the part of the innocent seductress in Emmanuelle. Through the phenomenal success of the three Emmanuelle films she starred in, she became the darling of Hollywood, as she seduced and was seduced by the rich and the beautiful of the golden age of cinema. But she found herself typecast as Emmanuelle and often played roles that capitalized upon that image, most notably starring in an adaptation of 'Lady Chatterly's Lover', and a nudity-filled biopic of World War I spy, Mata Hari, in which she played the title role. Almost inevitably she became the victim of her own innocence as it was Emmanuelle people wanted, not Sylvia. The price that she paid for her meteoric rise was an equally rapid descent into an excess of alcohol and drugs as her tempestuous family life threatened to fall apart all together.

Naked, candid and heart-breakingly honest, 'Undressing Emmanuelle' tells the story of one of Europe's most celebrated cinema icons and the price she paid for her beauty and innocence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• List of Illustrations
• Contents
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter Nine
• Chapter Ten
• Chapter Eleven
• Chapter Twelve
• Chapter Thirteen
• Chapter Fourteen
• Chapter Fifteen
• Chapter Sixteen
• Chapter Seventeen
• Chapter Eighteen
• Chapter Nineteen
• Chapter Twenty
• Chapter Twenty One
• Chapter Twenty Two
• Chapter Twenty Three
• Chapter Twenty Four
• Chapter Twenty Five
• Chapter Twenty Six
• Chapter Twenty Seven
• Chapter Twenty Eight
• Chapter Twenty Nine
• Chapter Thirty
• Chapter Thirty One
• Chapter Thirty Two
• Chapter Thirty Three
• Chapter Thirty Four
• Chapter Thirty Five
• Chapter Thirty Six
• Chapter Thirty Seven
• Chapter Thirty Eight
• Chapter Thirty Nine
• Chapter Forty
• Chapter Forty One
• Chapter Forty Two
• Chapter Forty Three
• Chapter Forty Four
• Chapter Forty Five
• Chapter Forty Six
• Chapter Forty Seven
• Chapter Forty Eight
• Chapter Forty Nine
• Chapter Fifty
• Chapter Fifty One
• Chapter Fifty Two
• Chapter Fifty Three
• Chapter Fifty Four
• Chapter Fifty Five
• Chapter Fifty Six
• Chapter Fifty Seven
• Chapter Fifty Eight
• Chapter Fifty Nine
• Chapter Sixty
• Chapter Sixty One
• Chapter Sixty Two
• Chapter Sixty Three
• Chapter Sixty Four
• Chapter Sixty Five
• Chapter Sixty Six
• Chapter Sixty Seven
• Chapter Sixty Eight
• Chapter Sixty Nine
• Chapter Seventy
• Chapter Seventy One
• Chapter Seventy Two
• Chapter Seventy Three
• Chapter Seventy Four
• Chapter Seventy Five
• Chapter Seventy Six
• Chapter Seventy Seven
• Chapter Seventy Eight
• Chapter Seventy Nine
• Chapter Eighty
• Chapter Eighty One
• Chapter Eighty Two
• Chapter Eighty Three
• Chapter Eighty Four
• Chapter Eighty Five
• Chapter Eighty Six
• Chapter Eighty Seven
• Chapter Eighty Eight
• Chapter Eighty Nine
• Copyright
• About the Publisher