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Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411635248
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Gold: Films of the Forties and Fifties written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood's Golden Era? I'd pick the period from 1939 through 1960. Here are 144 classic movies from this Golden Age of the Cinema, ranging (alphabetically) from "The Admiral Was a Lady" to "You Were Never Lovelier". Other films discussed in comprehensive detail (and with full background and release information) in this book include "The Adventures of Mark Twain", "The Chase", "Daisy Kenyon", "The Ghost of Frankenstein", "Humoresque", "In Old California", "Joan of Paris", "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Magic Town", "Nightmare Alley", The Paradine Case", "Roughly Speaking", "The Scarlet Claw", "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and "You'll Never Get Rich".

150 Finest Films of the Fifties

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329613112
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book 150 Finest Films of the Fifties written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-10-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950's saw a major revolution on the movie front. In order to combat TV, the size of movies screens was changed forever. Unfortunately, there was no standard agreement as to what dimensions, the preferred new sized screen should be.

Hollywood Movie Musicals

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411697626
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Movie Musicals written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think of movie musicals, films like "Singin' in the Rain", "Sound of Music", "The Red Shoes", "On the Town", "White Christmas", "Ziegfeld Follies", "Top Hat", "Funny Face" and "Funny Girl" immediately come to mind. Such films are included in this book, as are many of the works of major stars, including Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, Julie Andrews, Elvis Presley, Lucille Ball, Alice Faye, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Nelson Eddy, Doris Day, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eleanor Powell, and Al Jolson. But attention is also drawn to less lavishly produced but very pleasant musical offerings from both major and minor studios (including perhaps the finest "B" musical ever made). In all, 125 pictures are reviewed and detailed with full cast and technical credits, plus songs and musical numbers, awards, release dates and other essential background information.

50 of the Finest Films Hollywood Ever Made

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105758966
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book 50 of the Finest Films Hollywood Ever Made written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 50 of Hollywood's most famous movies are examined in detail in this book, which provides full cast and production credits, release dates, background information, DVD suppliers, plus up-to-date assessments and reviews. This information not only covers almost everything you would want to know about some of your favorite movies, but guides you towards further classic films you might enjoy! To name just twenty of the more than fifty titles, they include An American in Paris, The Apartment, The Caine Mutiny, Casablanca, China Seas, Duck Soup, From Here To Eternity, Gone With The Wind, The Greatest Show On Earth, If I Had a Million, In Old Chicago, It Happened One Night, Laura, Out of the Past, The Palm Beach Story, the Picture of Dorian Gray, A Place in the Sun, two versions of State Fair, The Wizard of Oz, Wonder Bar, and Yankee Doodle Dandy.

These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards

Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411658469
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book These Movies Won No Hollywood Awards written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of movies that won no Hollywood awards includes some that are famous like Garbo's "Queen Christina" and "A Woman of Affairs," William Wyler's "Carrie" and "Detective Story," Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," John Farrow's "California," Hitchcock's "Young and Innocent," John Ford's "Wee Willie Winkie," Albert Lewin's "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman," Mae West's "She Done Him Wrong," and DeMille's original version of "The Ten Commandments"; some that deserve to be famous like "Tonight and Every Night," "Sunnyside Up," "Ambassador Bill," "Diplomaniacs," "The Nitwits," "Fallen Angel" and "Rhythm on the Range"; and some that had no chance at all like "The Noose Hangs High," "Words and Music," "The Bohemian Girl," and 'Wagon Wheels Westward." Special added feature: a monograph on one of Hollywood's greatest directors, Henry Hathaway.

Great Hollywood Westerns

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430309687
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Great Hollywood Westerns written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-09-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A round-up of favorite westerns from "Aces and Eights" to "River of No Return," from "Colorado Sundown" to "Under California Stars," from "Big Calibre" to "The Yodellin' Kid from Pine Ridge." Featured stars include Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Bill Boyd, Charles Starrett, Buck Jones, Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Rex Bell, Tex Ritter, Ken Maynard, Tim McCoy, Jack Perrin, Johnny Mack Brown, Robert Mitchum, Randolph Scott.

140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 110575295X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book 140 All-Time Must-See Movies for Film Lovers Now Available On DVD written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Howard Reid's books are not only noted for the wealth of essential information he provides on each film he discusses, but for the insight and clarity of his reviews. Reid has been reviewing films professionally since 1955, and has contributed an enormous amount of material to newspapers and magazines in England, France, Australia and the USA. In the course of his work, Reid has come into contact with many famous stars and directors, and is often able to provide quotes and information that no other sources can duplicate. As a reviewer for one of Reid's previous books rightly pointed out, "Nobody does it better than John Howard Reid." In fact, Reid often provides far more information than the titles of his books suggest. "140 All-Time Must-See Movies" is a typical case. The book actually provides full details and reviews for 160 feature films plus brief comments on over 30 shorts.

History in Movies Hollywood Style

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304056023
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book History in Movies Hollywood Style written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

HOLLYWOOD 'B' MOVIES: A Treasury of Spills, Chills & Thrills

Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411650654
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book HOLLYWOOD 'B' MOVIES: A Treasury of Spills, Chills & Thrills written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the mid-1930s, cinema patrons insisted on value-for-money. Double feature programs became mandatory at all neighborhood cinemas. Usually the "A" feature film figured as the main attraction, and the supporting movie, the "B." Sometimes that role was reversed. On many occasions picturegoers felt the unheralded "B" movie had actually proved more entertaining than the widely advertised "A" attraction. More than two hundred of these wonderful "B" film classics from Hollywood's golden age are described, reviewed and detailed in this book. It's a must-have for all film addicts, movie fans and nostalgia connoisseurs.

Hollywood's Classic Comedies Featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour Or Screwball Fun!

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430314877
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's Classic Comedies Featuring Slapstick, Romance, Music, Glamour Or Screwball Fun! written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 films reviewed and rated, covering all genres of movie comedy from slapstick to sardonic, from madness to manners. Featured comedians include Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Bob Hope, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Bing Crosby, The Three Stooges, Eddie Cantor, Charlie Chaplin, Jacques Tati, Sid Field, The Crazy Gang, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jack Hulbert, Joe E. Brown, Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, Clifton Webb, Red Skelton, Ronald Shiner, Cecil Kellaway, Norman Wisdom, Frankie Howerd, Toto, Arthur Askey, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Joan Davis, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Stanley Holloway, Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake.

Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z

Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411692551
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Classics Index, Books 1-16: A-Z written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cumulative index to all the films detailed and reviewed in the "Hollywood Classics" series to date, features both original release and alternative titles, together with the year of production. This book is lavishly illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of original movie posters, many from the author's private collection.

Hollywood Classics Index Books 1-16: M-Z

Author : John H. Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411692497
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Classics Index Books 1-16: M-Z written by John H. Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Best Western Movies

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847281818
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Best Western Movies written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-10-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grab-bag of movie westerns ranges from the best to the worst; from lavish, no-expense-spared Cecil B. DeMille epics to Poverty Row double bills; from big-budget John Wayne vehicles like "In Old Oklahoma," "The War Wagon" and "The Fighting Kentuckian" to the sort of bottom-drawer product delivered by Sherman Scott and Monogram; from prestige, star-studded westerns like "My Darling Clementine" and "How the West Was Won" to the depths of "The Toughest Man in Arizona"; from the expertly crafted, super-popular "B" stables of Gene Autry, William Boyd, Roy Rogers, Charles Starrett and company to the fly-by-night efforts of long-forgotten brands like "The Range Busters." All reviews carry detailed credits. The book is rounded out with a Hopalong Cassidy filmography and many reproductions of original film posters.

More Movie Musicals

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411673425
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book More Movie Musicals written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of your favorite movie musicals are sure to be represented in this book. Classics like "Rose Marie" and "Calamity Jane" rub shoulders with "Artists and Models," "Babes on Broadway," "The Bohemian Girl," "The Inspector General" and "The Kid from Brooklyn." Bing and Bob are off on "The Road to Singapore," Eddie Cantor is involved in "Roman Scandals," while Mitzi Gaynor enjoys her stay in "South Pacific." Will Rogers, Jeanne Crain and Alice Faye all have a go in the various versions of "State Fair" and we catch Deanna Durbin in "Three Smart Girls," "Three Smart Girls Grow Up," "It Started with Eve" and "Something in the Wind." And that's just a small sampling of the wonders in store in "More Movie Musicals."

Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847280889
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Success in the Cinema MoneyMaking Movies written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basically, there are three measures of success in the cinema. First off are pictures like "The Crowd" and "Applause" that achieve rave reviews and even go on to win awards, but don't recover their negative costs. Then there are the movies the critics hate, but the public enjoys. All three versions of "Back Street", for instance. Finally come the pictures everyone loves, like "From Here To Eternity" or "Sunset Boulevard". In the annals of success in Hollywood's Golden Age, one name stands out above all others: Cecil B. DeMille. His famous pictures reviewed here include both versions of "The Buccaneer", "The Crusades", "Sign of the Cross", "The Story of Dr Wassell" and "Union Pacific". But the book also notes a DeMille "B" movie that tied up a fair amount of money but proved so unpopular it was released in some territories as a support. The book also covers some of Hollywood's other disastrous failures, including the M-G-M movie that cost over $4 million to make and returned virtually nothing.

Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid!

Author : John Howard Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312962380
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Classic Movies The Best and the Worst Pictures to see! Films to avoid! written by John Howard Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered in this large volume paperback are some of Hollywood's best loved and most famous movies. In addition to the many film classics, however, the author has included a number of equally entertaining films that deserve to be better known. Many of these movies are now available on DVD. Full credits and detailed reviews are provided for over a hundred of these classic films. Over two hundred more movies are represented by short reviews. Many of the reviews contain DVD details. Of course, not all classic movies have surfaced on DVD to date, but they are being issued at the rate of around forty a month! If you love classic movies, this book will provide an invaluable guide to some of the enjoyable films that are now available (and also, of course, some of the disappointing films that you might wisely avoid).

Films Famous, Fanciful, Frolicsome & Fantastic

Author : John Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411689151
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Films Famous, Fanciful, Frolicsome & Fantastic written by John Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-04-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember "Humpy," the talking camel? You'll find him in this book, along with a host of other legendary characters from Alice in Wonderland through the Mysterious Mr Wong to Wild Bill Hickok. Movie stars featured include Lon Chaney, Kay Francis, Buster Keaton, Greta Garbo, Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou and Will Rogers. Directors include John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch and Fred Zinnemann. It all adds up to many hours of pleasure for classic movie fans who can thumb through details of award-winning films, popular pictures, and little-known masterpieces that deserve wider recognition. Yes, there are famous "B" movies too, like "Sleepers West" and its re-make, "The Narrow Margin."