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Book Synopsis A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point by : Rose Hobart
Download or read book A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point written by Rose Hobart and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobart writes about the first 45 years of her life, including her childhood in New York, the start of her theatrical career in Chautauqua, her adventures as a Hollywood actress, the demise of three marriages, and her efforts to clear her name after being blacklisted in Hollywood. Of special interest is the sane perspective that Hobart, now 89, brings to her story and her attention to the connections that pull these seemingly disjointed events together into a coherent story of a life. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Cupboards of Curiosity by : Amelie Hastie
Download or read book Cupboards of Curiosity written by Amelie Hastie and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.
Download or read book Alive written by Elizabeth Willis and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry American poet Elizabeth Willis has written an electrifying body of work spanning more than twenty years. With a wild and inquisitive lyricism, Willis—“one of the most outstanding poets of her generation” (Susan Howe)—draws us into intricate patterns of thought and feeling. The intimate and civic address of these poems is laced with subterranean affinities among painters, botanists, politicians, witches and agitators. Coursing through this work is the clarity and resistance of a world that asks the poem to rise to this, to speak its fury.
Book Synopsis Actors on Red Alert by : Anthony Slide
Download or read book Actors on Red Alert written by Anthony Slide and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the fold. Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.
Book Synopsis Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood by : Edward Bernds
Download or read book Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood written by Edward Bernds and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bernds came to Hollywood in 1928 to help United Artists make the transition to sound. He worked with some of the most notable directors in Hollywood including Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and Howard Hawks. Though Bernds loved sound work, he had higher aspirations, and hoped to become a writer and director. His first breakthrough came during the mid-1940s on Columbia shorts starring the Three Stooges. Bernds worked with Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and company for over twenty years as the Stooges' favorite director. A second breakthrough came when he wrote and directed feature length films, among them the science fiction classics: World Without End, Return of the Fly, Spacemaster X7, and Zsa-zsa Gabor's Queen of Outer Space. Edward Bernds witnessed all of the profound changes that Hollywood underwent from the advent of sound to the start of the Easy Rider era. Fortunately for students and fans of film, he tells his story in this fascinating and vivid account of his life in Hollywood.
Book Synopsis And the Stars Spoke Back by : Frawley Becker
Download or read book And the Stars Spoke Back written by Frawley Becker and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becker reminiscences about his work on the sets and in the dressing rooms of Hollywood personalities, providing glimpses into the private lives of a stellar array of actors and actresses. Besides these and other stars, Becker also discloses fascinating details of working with world-famous directors John Huston, William Wyler, Nicholas Ray, Anatole Litvak, René Clément, and Vittorio de Sica.
Book Synopsis The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by : David B. Hinton
Download or read book The Films of Leni Riefenstahl written by David B. Hinton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2000-06-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the repetitious clichés that so often accompany a discussion of such a controversial filmmaker. Provided with access to Leni Riefenstahl's personal archives and film collection, the author explores her career. In addition to examining her most famous wartime works, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, the author also investigates her less recognized Tiefland, her unrealized film projects, and her African and underwater films. David B. Hinton drew on recent interviews with the filmmaker to update this edition. (Previous edition is No. 29 in The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series.) Reviews of the Previous Edition: "Raises significant issues involving the relationship between art and politics." —CHOICE "...a solid piece of research....the author is able to illuminate aspects of the production of Triumph of the Will and Olympia previously unknown."—FILMS IN REVIEW "It's best to read her [Leni Riefenstahl] memoirs, anybody's memoirs in fact, with some independent scholarship at hand, and the best place to start is David B. Hinton's thoroughly researched The Films of Leni Riefenstahl."—THE MAGAZINE
Book Synopsis White Horse, Black Hat by : C. Jack Lewis
Download or read book White Horse, Black Hat written by C. Jack Lewis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Lewis spent twenty-five years in this world of low-budget Westerns, and in White Horse, Black Hat he reveals the human side of the industry. Highly personal and filled with rare glimpses of a life that remains in the memory of only a few, this narrative is a nostalgic memoir of a bygone time, of those who shared life on Poverty Row, and of the hard work, failures, successes, and dreams made or broken."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis An Actor, and a Rare One by : Tony Earnshaw
Download or read book An Actor, and a Rare One written by Tony Earnshaw and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the century, Sherlock Holmes has captured the imagination of readers, and, after his move to both television and movies, generations of viewers. While Holmes has been portrayed by many distinguished actors, few have done it with the class, humor, and aplomb that Peter Cushing brought to the role. Written by noted British film journalist Tony Earnshaw, An Actor and a Rare One: Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes follows the career of Peter Cushing, one of England's finest actors, as he worked his way up from regional theater to the role of the world's most famous consulting detective. This book details Cushing's career as Holmes through anecdotes and reminiscences as told by his colleagues and Cushing himself. A fascinating, often humorous behind-the-scenes look at one of the century's great actors in one of the century's greatest roles.
Book Synopsis Perpetually Cool by : Anthony B. Chan
Download or read book Perpetually Cool written by Anthony B. Chan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna May Wong was an extraordinary Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent. From small parts in silent films to starring roles in Hollywood and across the Atlantic, Wong made an impression on audiences of all persuasions. In Perpetually Cool, Anthony Chan takes the reader on a compelling journey through Wong's early years in Los Angeles and her first Hollywood pictures. Chan also examines the scope and nature of race, gender, and power and their impact on Wong's personal growth as a Chinese American. Perpetually Cool is not only the captivating story of a cinematic career, but also of roots and identity, as it recounts Wong's desire to connect with her heritage in the United States and in China. Chan provides extensive textual analyses of Wong's signature films, especially The Toll of the Sea (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) with Douglas Fairbanks, and her most famous role as Hui Fei in Shanghai Express (1932), opposite Marlene Dietrich. Perpetually Cool is a fitting tribute to the influence of this Chinese American icon.
Download or read book A Great Lady written by Larry Ceplair and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceplair's book details the course of Hollywood screenwriter Sonya Levien's exceptional career at Fox and MGM and her most interesting projects and colleagues. It examines her relationship to the important political and labor movements affecting the motion picture industry. Includes an extensive filmography.
Book Synopsis Wife of the Life of the Party by : Lita Grey Chaplin
Download or read book Wife of the Life of the Party written by Lita Grey Chaplin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary Hollywood story of someone who was there from the very beginning. Born Lillita Louise MacMurray in Hollywood, she began her career at twelve with the Charlie Chaplin Film Company, when Chaplin selected her to appear with him as the flirting angel in The Kid. When she was fifteen, Chaplin signed her as the leading lady in The Gold Rush and changed her name to Lita Grey. She was forced to leave the production when, at the age of sixteen, she became pregnant with Chaplin's child. She married Chaplin in Empalme, Mexico in November 1924. The Chaplins stayed together for two years. Lita bore Chaplin two sons: Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Sydney Chaplin. In November 1926, after Lita discovered that Chaplin was having an affair with Merna Kennedy (Lita's best friend, whom she had persuaded Chaplin to hire as the leading lady in The Circus), Lita left Chaplin and filed for divorce. It was one of the first divorce cases to receive a public airing. The divorce complaint ran a staggering 42 pages and fed scandal with its revelations about the private life of Charles Chaplin. Lita's divorce settlement of $825,000 was the largest in American history at the time. Lita authorized the publication of another biography, My Life with Chaplin, in 1966. The book was mainly the creation of her co-author, Morton Cooper, who re-wrote her manuscript. Lita was never happy with the many inaccuracies and distortions of that book. Wife of the Life of the Party is not to be seen as a supplement to her early book, but rather Lita's own version of her life, told for the first time.
Download or read book Irene Dunne written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length biography of Irene Dunne, one of the most versatile actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors award in 1985, Dunne's acting highlights include five Best Actress Oscar nominations, occurring in almost as many different genres: the Western Cimarron (1931), two screwball comedies: Theodora Goes Wild (1936) and The Awful Truth (1937), the romantic comedy Love Affair (1939), and the populist I Remember Mama (1948).
Download or read book Leo McCarey written by Wes D. Gehring and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first full-length biography of a legendary and award-winning Hollywood writer, producer, and director (Duck Soup, My Favorite Wife, An Affair to Remember, Going My Way, and The Bells of St. Mary's) explores the director's life as filtered through his art. Gehring maintains that McCarey's films were often a reworking of his antiheroic self. In addition, the apparent diversity of his films actually represents an interrelated web of various comedy genres and a pattern of antiheroic characters and themes.
Book Synopsis The Films of Steven Spielberg by : Charles L. P. Silet
Download or read book The Films of Steven Spielberg written by Charles L. P. Silet and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silet (English, Iowa State U.) collects critical and scholarly explorations of the works of Steven Spielberg that have previously appeared in journals and books. The majority of the contributions are roughly contemporaneous with the film discussed and they are arranged in chronological order. The papers consider ten of Spielberg's films, from Jaws to Saving Private Ryan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Back Lot written by Maurice Rapf and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the heyday of MGM from one who was there: Maurice Rapf tells what it was like to grow up as the son of a great Hollywood producer - Harry Rapf, one of the founders of MGM - and to be on the lots, seeing the way the movie business really worked. Rapf went on to write screenplays and be blacklisted during the 1950s - providing a fascinating account of another key era of American film. Part autobiography, part history, this book is a priceless glimpse into the development of the twentieth century's most important art form.
Book Synopsis Rungs on a Ladder by : Christopher Neame
Download or read book Rungs on a Ladder written by Christopher Neame and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003-06-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Neame, son of director Ronald, started his film career in the early 1960s with Hammer Films. This account is told from the perspective of an amateur who observes 'through a soft gauze' many characters both in front of and behind the camera, including such producers of classic tales of Gothic horror as Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Anthony Hinds, Michael Carreras, and Anthony Nelson Keys, director Terrence Fisher, and screenwriter/producer Jimmy Sangster. Other stars less obviously connected to the company are also met along the way.
