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Author : Tony Thomas
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806512174
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Films of Kirk Douglas written by Tony Thomas and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762462183
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Kirk and Anne written by Kirk Douglas and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late film icon and screen legend Kirk Douglas was married to Anne Buydens for more than six decades. Here they both look back on a lifetime filled with drama both on and off the screen. Sharing priceless correspondence with each other as well as the celebrities and world leaders they called friends, Kirk and Anne is a candid portrayal of the pleasures and pitfalls of a Hollywood life lived in the public eye. Compiled from Anne's private archive of letters and photographs, this is an intimate glimpse into the Douglases' courtship and marriage set against the backdrop of Kirk's screen triumphs, including The Vikings, Lust For Life, Paths of Glory, and Spartacus. The letters themselves, as well as Kirk and Anne's vivid descriptions of their experiences, reveal remarkable insight and anecdotes about the legendary figures they knew so well, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, John Wayne, the Kennedys, and the Reagans. Filled with photos from film sets, private moments, and public events, Kirk and Anne details the adventurous, oftentimes comic, and poignant reality behind the glamour of a Hollywood marriage.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 9781453254806
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (548 download)
Download or read book I Am Spartacus! written by Kirk Douglas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk Douglas reveals the drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film Spartacus. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood's moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The source novel was written by Howard Fast while he too was in jail for defying HUAC. With the future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production. As both producer and star, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, Now, at 95, Douglas looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era--but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the Hollywood blacklist.--From publisher description.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0757318479
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Life Could Be Verse written by Kirk Douglas and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his 98th birthday, Kirk Douglas offers us an intimate look into his life. Through a collection of poetry, prose and photographs, he pulls the curtain all the way back exposing the bombs and blockbusters of both the personal and professional aspects. From uncomplicated poems written for his beloved wife, Ann, of 60 years, to poems written for his four boys when they were still small, Douglas' words are comical, sentimental, romantic, and sometimes painful. He chaperones us through the stages of his life, including the untimely death of his youngest son, and shares nostalgic pictures of the other 'leading ladies' in his life like Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, and Bridget Bardot. Kirk Douglas is an American legend—crowned as one of the greatest male screen legends in American film history by the American Film Institute. And, at 97, he is the highest ranked person on the list alive today. Life Could Be Verse's beautiful design makes it a keepsake for the myriad of Kirk Douglas' fans who have adored "Spartacus" for many, many decades.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060014040
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book My Stroke of Luck written by Kirk Douglas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-01-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My stroke taught me so much, and for all that it stole, it gave me even more. In the process of healing, my life has changed for the better. Now I want to share what I have learned. In this vivid and very personal reflection upon his extraordinary life as an actor, author, and legend in his own time, Kirk Douglas offers a candid and heartfelt memoir of where it all went right in his life -- even after suffering a debilitating stroke. Revealing not only the incredible physical and emotional toll of his stroke but how it has changed his life for the better, Douglas shares the lessons that saved him and helped him to heal. Alongside his heartfelt advice and insight, he also recalls warm memories of some of the most famous figures of our time -- including Burt Lancaster, Michael J. Fox, and Gary Cooper -- as well as others who have soared to greatness in the face of adversity. Charming, soulful, and filled with personal photographs, My Stroke of Luck is an intimate look at the real person behind the fabulous talent -- and at a life lived to its very fullest.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620458667
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Let's Face It written by Kirk Douglas and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood, a hard-charging actor whose intensity on the screen was mirrored in his personal life. As Kirk Douglas grew older, he became less impetuous and more reflective. In this poignant and inspiring new memoir, Douglas contemplates what life is all about, weighing current events from his frame of mind at ninety while summoning the passions of his younger days. Kirk Douglas was a born storyteller, and throughout Let's Face It he tells wonderful tales and shares favorite jokes and hard-won insights. In the book, he explores the mixed blessings of growing older and looks back at his childhood, his young adulthood, and his storied, glamorous, and colorful life and career in Hollywood. He tells delightful stories of the making of such films as Spartacus, Lust for Life, Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful, and many others. He includes anecdotes about his friends Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Lauren Bacall, Ronald Reagan, Ava Gardner, Henry Kissinger, Fred Astaire, Yul Brynner, John Wayne, and Johnny Cash. He reveals the secrets that kept him and his wife, Anne, happily married for more than five decades, and talks fondly and movingly of times spent with his sons, Michael, Peter, Eric, and Joel, and his grandchildren. Douglas's life was filled with pain as well as joy. In Let's Face It, he writes frankly for the first time about the tragic death of his son Eric from a drug overdose at age forty-five. Douglas tells what it was like to recover from several near-death episodes, including a helicopter crash, a stroke, and a cardiac event. He writes of his sadness that many of his closest friends are no longer with us; the book includes many moving stories such as one about a regular poker game at Frank Sinatra's house at which he and Anne were fixtures along with Gregory Peck, Jack Lemmon, and their wives. Though many of the players are gone, the game continues to this day. In Let's Face It, Douglas reflects on how his Jewish faith became more and more important to him over the years. He offers strong opinions on everything from anti-Semitism to corporate greed, from racism to Hurricane Katrina, and from the war in Iraq to the situation in Israel. He writes about the importance in his life of the need to improve education for all children and about how we need to care more about the world and less about ourselves. A must-read for every fan, this engrossing memoir provides an indelible self-portrait of a great star - while sharing the wit and wisdom Kirk Douglas accumulated over a lifetime.
Author : Harry Lime
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244560508
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Kirk Douglas written by Harry Lime and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9th, 1916, Amsterdam, New York, U.S., is an actor, producer, director, and author, being one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and 6 sisters, he had his movie debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star during the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films, being known for his explosive acting style.
Author : Harry Lime
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244562168
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Kirk Douglas & Rita Hayworth written by Harry Lime and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9th, 1916, Amsterdam, New York, U.S., is an actor, producer, director, and author, being one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and 6 sisters, he had his movie debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star during the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films, being known for his explosive acting style.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Kirk Douglas written by Kirk Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849839020
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Ragman's Son written by Kirk Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky, the son of an illiterate immigrant Russian-Jewish ragpicker and junkman, Kirk Douglas makes clear in this powerful, angry, and passionate book the ways in which his difficult childhood dominated his life as an actor, father, and man. 16 pages of photographs.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453239375
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book I Am Spartacus! written by Kirk Douglas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the “Unfriendly Ten,” men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee about their political affiliations. Douglas’s source material was already a hot property, as the novel Spartacus was written by Howard Fast while he was in jail for defying HUAC. With the financial future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production both on- and off-screen. As both producer and star of the film, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, including Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, and Lew Wasserman. Writing from his heart and from his own meticulously researched archives, Kirk Douglas, at ninety-five, looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era—but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the notorious Hollywood blacklist. A master storyteller, Douglas paints a vivid and often humorous portrait in I Am Spartacus! The book is enhanced by newly discovered period photography of the stars and filmmakers both on and off the set.
Author : Harry Lime
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244262150
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Kirk Douglas & Doris Day written by Harry Lime and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9th, 1916, Amsterdam, New York, U.S., is an actor, producer, director, and author, being one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and 6 sisters, he had his movie debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star during the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films, being known for his explosive acting style.
Author : Arthur Miller
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464753681
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (536 download)
Download or read book Kirk Douglas written by Arthur Miller and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk Douglas, born Issur Danielovitch, on December 9th, 1916, Amsterdam, New York, U.S, is an actor, producer, director, and author, being one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and 6 sisters, he had his movie debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck. Douglas soon developed into a leading box-office star during the 1950s, known for serious dramas, including westerns and war movies. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films, being known for his explosive acting style.
Author : Emily Smith
Publisher : Tebbo
ISBN 13 : 9781743040195
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Kirk Douglas Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Kirk Douglas written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2011 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch December 9, 1916) is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Champion (1949), Ace in the Hole (1951), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), Lust for Life (1956), Paths of Glory (1957), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) Spartacus (1960), and Lonely Are the Brave (1962). He is #17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time. In 1996, he received the Academy Honorary Award ""for 50 years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community."" This book is your ultimate resource for Kirk Douglas. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away: The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, I Walk Alone, The Glass Menagerie (1950 film), Along the Great Divide, Ace in the Hole (film), Detective Story (1951 film), The Big Trees, The Big Sky (film), The Bad and the Beautiful, The Story of Three Loves, The Juggler (film), Act of Love (1953 film), List of The Jack Benny Program episodes, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film), The Racers, Ulysses (1955 film), Man Without a Star, The Indian Fighter, Lust for Life (film), Top Secret Affair, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film), Paths of Glory, The Vikings (1958 film), Last Train from Gun Hill, The Devil's Disciple (1959 film), Strangers When We Meet (film), Spartacus (1960 film), Town Without Pity, The Last Sunset (film), Lonely Are the Brave, Two Weeks in Another Town, The List of Adrian Messenger, For Love or Money (1963 film), Seven Days in May, In Harm's Way, The Heroes of Telemark, Cast a Giant Shadow, Is Paris Burning?, The Way West (film), The War Wagon, Once Upon a Wheel, A Lovely Way to Die, The Brotherhood (1968 film), The Arrangement (1969 film), There Was a Crooked Man..., To Catch a Spy, The Light at the Edge of the World, A Gunfight, The Master Touch, Posse (1975 film), Once Is Not Enough, Holocaust 2000, The Fury (1978 film), The Villain (1979 film), Saturn 3, Home Movies (film), The Final Countdown (film), The Man from Snowy River (1982 film), Eddie Macon's Run, Draw!, Tough Guys (1986 film), Queenie (miniseries), Inherit the Wind (1988 film), Oscar (1991 film), The Secret (1992 film), A Century of Cinema, Greedy (film), Diamonds (1999 film), It Runs in the Family (2003 film), Illusion (film) Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.
Author : Kirk Douglas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743214382
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Climbing the Mountain written by Kirk Douglas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the simple power and astonishing candor that made his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, a number one international bestseller, Kirk Douglas now shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke. On February 13, 1991, at the age of seventy-four, Kirk Douglas, star of such major motion-picture classics as Champion, Spartacus, and Paths of Glory, was in a helicopter crash, in which two people died and he himself sustained severe back injuries. As he lay in the hospital recovering, he kept wondering: Why had two younger men died while he, who had already lived his life fully, survived? The question drove this son of a Russian-Jewish ragman to a search for his roots and on a long journey of self-discovery -- a quest not only for the meaning of life and his own relationship with God, but for his own identity as a Jew. Through the study of the Bible, Kirk Douglas found a new spirituality and purpose. His newfound faith deeply enriched his relationship with his own children and taught him -- a man who had always been famously demanding and impatient -- to listen to others and, above all, to hear his own inner voice. Told with warmth, wit, much humor, and deep passion, Climbing the Mountain is inspirational in the very best sense of the word.
Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 : 9780515040845
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Kirk Douglas written by Joseph McBride and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tino Balio
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299098737
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The American Film Industry written by Tino Balio and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985-03-04 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon its original publication in 1976, The American Film Industry was welcomed by film students, scholars, and fans as the first systematic and unified history of the American movie industry. Now this indispensible anthology has been expanded and revised to include a fresh introductory overview by editor Tino Balio and ten new chapters that explore such topics as the growth of exhibition as big business, the mode of production for feature films, the star as market strategy, and the changing economics and structure of contemporary entertainment companies. The result is a unique collection of essays, more comprehensive and current than ever, that reveals how the American movie industry really worked in a century of constant change-from kinetoscopes and the coming of sound to the star system, 1950s blacklisting, and today's corporate empires.
