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Author : Joel Waldo Finler
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 9780517565766
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (657 download)
Download or read book The Hollywood Story written by Joel Waldo Finler and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oversize volume that tells the history of American movies in text and hundreds of photographs.
Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786475292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Serial Film Stars written by Buck Rainey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl White, William Duncan, William Desmond, Ben Wilson, Walter Miller, Francis Ford, Charles Hutchinson, Jack Dougherty, and Eddie Polo are just a few of the stars to start up a whirlwind of enthusiasm among serial devotees. They offered a thrill-a-minute world of ridiculous plots, weird disguises, hair-raising escapes, hidden treasures, diabolic scientific devices, wild animals, depraved men, runaway trains, and an endless procession of knock-down, drag-out fights. Who could resist? This reference work highlights 446 serial performers who thrilled generations. Each entry includes the performer's birth and death dates, serial credits, major films and details of life before and after the movies.
Author : Steve Lafler
Publisher : Cat-Head Comics
ISBN 13 : 9781734108774
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book 1956 Movie Star written by Steve Lafler and published by Cat-Head Comics. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-Second Street crackles with electricity as midnight beckons. Limos and cabs drop revelers at jazz hot spots like Birdland and Johnny Ryan's, decked to the nines. Headliners from Sarah Vaughn to the Miles Davis Quintet rewrite the rules of cool nightly in clubs packed to the gills. Downtown bohemians mix easily with African Americans and Latinos, with a smattering of out-of-town business visitors tripping the light fantastic. Midtown Manhattan offers a cultural oasis to the diverse fans of cutting edge jazz. Welcome to an alternate universe mid 20th century where hipster "happy drunks" Susie and Jack find love, trans woman Ramona builds a high-profile career, and even Muggles the drug-dealing pimp can have a heart of gold. This is the jolly conceit of cartoonist Steve Lafler-enjoy it as you lean into that transcendent Coltrane solo over a martini just past midnight in Manhattan, smack in the center of 1956.
Author : Buck Rainey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Serial Film Stars written by Buck Rainey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl White, William Duncan, William Desmond, Ben Wilson, Walter Miller, Francis Ford, Charles Hutchinson, Jack Dougherty, and Eddie Polo are just a few of the stars to start up a whirlwind of enthusiasm among serial devotees. They took the movies by storm offering a thrills-a-minute world of ridiculous plots, weird disguises, hair-raising escapes, hidden treasures, diabolic scientific devices, wild animals, depraved men, runaway trains, and endless procession of knock-down, drag-out fights. Who could resist? This comprehensive reference work highlights 446 serial performers who thrilled generations. Each entry includes the performer's birth and death dates, details of life before and after the movies, as well as covering the major films.
Author : Landon Palmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190888423
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Rock Star/Movie Star written by Landon Palmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. Indeed, casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and practices. From Elvis Presley to Madonna, this book examines the casting rock stars in films. In so doing, Rock Star/Movie Star offers a new perspective on the role of stardom within the convergence of media industries. While hardly the first popular music culture to see its stars making the transition to screen, the timing of rock's emergence and its staying power within popular culture proved fortuitous for a motion picture business searching for its place in the face of continuous technological and cultural change. At the same time, a post-star-system film industry provided a welcoming context for rock stars who have valued authenticity, creative autonomy, and personal expression. This book uses illuminating archival resources to demonstrate how rock stars have often proven themselves to be prominent film workers exploring this terrain of platforms old and new - ideal media laborers whose power lies in the fact that they are rarely recognized as such. Combining star studies with media industry studies, this book proposes an integrated methodology for writing media history that combines the actions of individuals and the practices of industries. It demonstrates how stars have operated as both the gravitational center of media production as well as social actors who have taken on a decisive role in the purposes to which their images are used.
Author : Ewen Montagu
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359903991
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Never Was written by Ewen Montagu and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces away from Sicily, and two weeks into the real invasion still expected an attack in Greece. This extraordinary operation called for a dead body, dressed as a Royal Marine officer and carrying false information about a pending Allied invasion of Greece, to wash up on a Spanish shore near the town of a known Nazi agent...
Author : William J. Mann
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547134649
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book How to be a Movie Star written by William J. Mann and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative account of Elizabeth Taylor's career, with particular attention paid to how the consummate movie star influenced and crafted her image over the years.
Author : Martha Sherrill
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780375759499
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (594 download)
Download or read book My Last Movie Star written by Martha Sherrill and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegra, a young actress, and Clementine, a jaded journalist, are conducting a road-trip interview when they are in a car crash. Allegra vanishes into thin air and Clementine becomes a celebrity by proxy.
Author : David Dalton
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 155652398X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book James Dean written by David Dalton and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock ’n’ roll’s politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own image and performances, and the product of still unequalled research, vivid writing, intimate photographs, and profound meditation, James Dean: The Mutant King has become almost as legendary as its subject.
Author : Susan Marg
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669862305
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)
Download or read book A New Way of Looking at Movie Stars written by Susan Marg and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can you name ten actors who played women or ten actresses who played prostitutes in the movies? What about anyone who gained weight or got into shape for a movie role? And, there are those who fell in love on a movie set, performed together, and were paid big bucks for a divorce. The answers are in this book, although you might have a preference for someone I didn’t recognize. You might even learn something new about the movies or your favorite stars. Did you know that television’s Police Squad! ran for only six episodes, but it led to three movies. Do you remember when Paul Newman played himself on The Simpsons? The idea for the book was based on a childhood pastime similar to hopscotch, but without the hopping or standing on one leg. This book is sure to bring hours of entertainment. There are over 1000 entries, organized into ten chapters with ten sections each. Sit down, keep reading, and enjoy!
Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466867973
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Giant written by Don Graham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson’s promiscuity, Taylor’s high diva-dom, and Dean’s egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. In this compelling and impeccably researched narrative history of the making of the film, Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham’s Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film’s production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema.
Author : Barry Monush
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557835512
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the silent era to 1965 written by Barry Monush and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For decades, Screen World has been the film professional's, as well as the film buff's, favorite and indispensable annual screen resource, full of all the necessary statistics and facts. Now Screen World editor Barry Monush has compiled another comprehensive work for every film lover's library. In the first of two volumes, this book chronicles the careers of every significant film actor, from the earliest silent screen stars Chaplin, Pickford, Fairbanks to the mid-1960s, when the old studio and star systems came crashing down. Each listing includes: a brief biography, photos from the famed Screen World archives, with many rare shots; vital statistics; a comprehensive filmography; and an informed, entertaining assessment of each actor's contributions good or bad! In addition to every major player, Monush includes the legions of unjustly neglected troupers of yesteryear. The result is a rarity: an invaluable reference tool that's as much fun to read as a scandal sheet. It pulsates with all the scandal, glamour, oddity and glory that was the lifeblood of its subjects. Contains over 1,000 photos!
Author : Margaret Moser
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429978376
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Movie Stars Do the Dumbest Things written by Margaret Moser and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Depp. Marilyn Monroe. Marlon Brando. Leonardo DiCaprio. Woody Allen. Shanron Stone. What do all of these actors have in common? They're outrageous, receive huge salaries, have enormous egos, and have way too much spare time. Their out-of-control lifestyles prove that, as one Hollywood observer noted, "Hollywood is a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." You'll learn which director was furious when he was misquoted as saying, "Actors are cattle." He claimed he had really said, "Actors should be treated as cattle." You'll discover that Bruce Wilis ordered the final scenes in Striking Distance to be re-shot at a cost of over $750,000 because the original shots exposed his toupee. You'll find that Melanie Griffith explained her ignorance of the Nazi holocaust by saying, "I don't know why I didn't know. Maybe I missed school that day...I'm not stupid." Whether you're a fan of Hugh Grant, Dennis Hopper, or Whoopi Goldberg, you'll learn about all of the embarrassing moments in your favorite star's life. From actors like Ben Affleck and Cameron Diaz to screen legends like Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland, Movie Stars Do the Dumbest Things is proof that actors are more childish and impulsive than you've ever imagined.
Author : Jennifer Warner
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1629172480
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Grace Kelly of Monaco written by Jennifer Warner and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2014-04-12 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She has been called America’s princess – and with good reason. Long before she married a prince, Grace Kelly had the looks and bearing of royalty. Born and raised in Philadelphia, the daughter of an Irish Catholic father and a German immigrant mother, Grace’s blend of blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauty and poise was dubbed a “snow-covered volcano” by director Alfred Hitchcock. But like most icons, there is more to Grace than what you see in film. While, on the surface, she appeared to have lived a real-life fairy tale filled with handsome men, beautiful clothes and an adoring public, in reality, her life seems to have been more of an often sad reflection of the times in which she lived. It was a time of movie megastars, of hushed-up love affairs, of prejudice and gossip, and of images not always being what they appeared to be. Long before the world admired Kate Middleton’s sophisticated sense of style, and long before the world fell in love with young Lady Diana’s shy smile, there was a breathtakingly beautiful princess from Philadelphia. Her name was Grace Kelly, and this is her story.
Author : Anna Ariadne Knight
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526154498
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Screening the Hollywood rebels in 1950s Britain written by Anna Ariadne Knight and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines issues of censorship, publicity and teenage fandom in 1950s Britain surrounding a series of controversial Hollywood films: The Wild One, Blackboard Jungle, Rebel Without a Cause, Rock Around the Clock and Jailhouse Rock. It also explores British cinema’s commentary on juvenile delinquency through a re-examination of such British films as The Blue Lamp, Spare the Rod and Serious Charge. Taking a multi-dimensional approach, the book intersects with star studies and social history while reappraising the stardom of Marlon Brando, James Dean and Elvis Presley. By looking at the specific meanings, pleasures and uses British fans derived from these films, it provides a logical and sustained narrative for how Hollywood star images fed into and disrupted British cultural life during a period of unprecedented teenage consumerism.
Author : Jerry L Schneider
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0983197253
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Corriganville: The Definitive True History of the Ray "Crash" Corrigan Movie Ranch written by Jerry L Schneider and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR THE FIRST TIME! A complete and true history of the Ray "Crash" Corrigan Movie Ranch, from its prehistory to its current status as a city park. Corrects all of the falsehoods and exaggerations concerning the ranch and its operation as both a movie location and as an amusement park. Includes many details of its day-to-day operation, especially the amusement park business (its highpoints and its shortcomings!). An extensive and expanded filmography of the movie ranch. Profusely illustrated with nearly a thousand illustrations, including almost 500 photographs from a 4,000 negative collection of Corriganville images, most of which have not been published before.
Author : Jocelyn Faris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387796
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Jayne Mansfield written by Jocelyn Faris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-11-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People today remember Jayne Mansfield as a famous Hollywood movie star. However, she starred in only three American movies before moving to low-budget European films. She was a master of publicity who appeared in newspapers across the nation almost daily. The media focused on her figure and her stormy love life. Through her constant exposure in the press, she gave the public the false impression that she was a major movie star. This book charts the captivating life and career of Jayne Mansfield. A biography overviews her rise to fame, her three marriages and five children, and her death in a grisly automobile accident at an early age. The chapters that follow are each devoted to her performances in a particular genre, such as film, stage, and television. Each chapter contains annotated entries for her work in that media, providing cast and credit listings, plot summaries, review excerpts, and commentary. Appendices list her appearances on magazine and record covers, and an annotated bibliography discusses additional sources of information.
