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That Was Entertainment

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496817346
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book That Was Entertainment written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s, culminating in the notorious 1970 MGM auction when Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, Charlton Heston's chariot from Ben-Hur, and Fred Astaire's trousers and dress shirt from Royal Wedding vanished to the highest bidders. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured. Without Freed, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Cyd Charisse, Arlene Dahl, Vera-Ellen, Lucille Bremer, Gloria DeHaven, Howard Keel, and June Allyson would never have had the signature films that established them as movie legends. MGM's past is its present. No other studio produced such a range of musicals that are still shown today on television and all of which are covered in this volume, from integrated musicals in which song and dance were seamlessly embedded in the plot (Meet Me in St. Louis and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) to revues (The Hollywood Revue of 1929 and Ziegfeld Follies); original musicals (Singin' in the Rain, Easter Parade, and It's Always Fair Weather); adaptations of Broadway shows (Girl Crazy, On the Town, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, Brigadoon, Kismet, and Bells Are Ringing); musical versions of novels and plays (Gigi, The Pirate, and Summer Holiday); operettas (the films of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy); mythico-historical biographies of composers (Johann Strauss Jr. in The Great Waltz and Sigmund Romberg in Deep in My Heart); and musicals featuring songwriting teams (Rodgers and Hart in Words and Music and Kalmar and Ruby in Three Little Words), opera stars (Enrico Caruso in The Great Caruso and Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody), and pop singers (Ruth Etting in Love Me or Leave Me). Also covered is the water ballet musical--in a class by itself--with Esther Williams starring as MGM's resident mermaid. This is a book for longtime lovers of the movie musical and those discovering the genre for the first time.

The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496838629
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979) revolutionized the movie musical, cementing its place in American popular culture. Zanuck, who got his start writing stories and scripts in the silent film era, worked his way to becoming a top production executive at Warner Bros. in the later 1920s and early 1930s. Leaving that studio in 1933, he and industry executive Joseph Schenck formed Twentieth Century Pictures, an independent Hollywood motion picture production company. In 1935, Zanuck merged his Twentieth Century Pictures with the ailing Fox Film Corporation, resulting in the combined Twentieth Century-Fox, which instantly became a new major Hollywood film entity. The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes is the first book devoted to the musicals that Zanuck produced at these three studios. The volume spotlights how he placed his personal imprint on the genre and how—especially at Twentieth Century-Fox—he nurtured and showcased several blonde female stars who headlined the studio’s musicals—including Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Vivian Blaine, June Haver, Marilyn Monroe, and Sheree North. Building upon Bernard F. Dick’s previous work in That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical, this volume illustrates the richness of the American movie musical, tracing how these song-and-dance films fit within the career of Darryl F. Zanuck and within the timeline of Hollywood history.

All That Glittered

Author : Ethan Mordden
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312338988
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book All That Glittered written by Ethan Mordden and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Best of MGM

Author : James Robert Parish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Best of MGM written by James Robert Parish and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Years 1928-1959.

Hollywood's Last Golden Age

Author : Jonathan Kirshner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465400
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood's Last Golden Age written by Jonathan Kirshner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ways in which key films from this period—including Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Graduate, and Nashville, as well as underappreciated films such as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Klute, and Night Moves—were important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times. These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood’s embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters’ interior lives.

Pleasing Everyone

Author : Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190634065
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Pleasing Everyone written by Jeffrey Knapp (Professor of English) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment? In Pleasing Everyone, author Jeffrey Knapp opens our eyes to the uncanny resemblance between Renaissance drama and the incontrovertibly mass medium of Golden-Age Hollywood cinema. Through fascinating explorations of such famous plays as Hamlet, The Roaring Girl, and The Alchemist, and such celebrated films as Citizen Kane, The Jazz Singer, and City Lights, Knapp challenges some of our most basic assumptions about the relationship between art and mass audiences. Above all, Knapp encourages us to resist the prejudice that mass entertainment necessarily simplifies and cheapens whatever it touches. As Knapp shows, it was instead the ceaseless pressure to please everyone that helped generate the astonishing richness and complexity of Renaissance drama as well as of Hollywood film.

Tin Pan Alley

Author : David A. Jasen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135949018
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Tin Pan Alley written by David A. Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century, New York's famous "Tin Pan Alley" was the center of popular music publishing in this country. It was where songwriting became a profession, and songs were made-to-order for the biggest stars. Selling popular music to a mass audience from coast-to-coast involved the greatest entertainment media of the day, from minstrelsy to Broadway, to vaudeville, dance palaces, radio, and motion pictures. Successful songwriting became an art, with a host of men and women becoming famous by writing famous songs.

The Golden Years of Entertainment

Author : Roy Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781440470752
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Years of Entertainment written by Roy Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These were the years when a social revelation occurred in America. Radio had come of age, when networks had formed to give the public a full menu of music, drama, and special events by headliners from Hollywood and the stage. Movies moved from silent to sound; large theaters were built to accommodate the huge new audiences. The name "movie palace" was born, an apt name for the theaters that rivaled the palaces of Europe in size and opulence. America loved its amusement parks, with popular attractions such as carousels, Ferris wheels, roller coasters, dance pavilions, pools, and picnic areas. Here, Roy Hansen will take you on a memory trip to a vanished past - a time in the 1930s and 1940s when entertainment was king!

My Adventures in the Golden Age of Music

Author : Henry T. Finck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Adventures in the Golden Age of Music written by Henry T. Finck and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496838645
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck written by Bernard F. Dick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with The Jazz Singer (1927) and 42nd Street (1933), legendary Hollywood film producer Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979) revolutionized the movie musical, cementing its place in American popular culture. Zanuck, who got his start writing stories and scripts in the silent film era, worked his way to becoming a top production executive at Warner Bros. in the later 1920s and early 1930s. Leaving that studio in 1933, he and industry executive Joseph Schenck formed Twentieth Century Pictures, an independent Hollywood motion picture production company. In 1935, Zanuck merged his Twentieth Century Pictures with the ailing Fox Film Corporation, resulting in the combined Twentieth Century-Fox, which instantly became a new major Hollywood film entity. The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes is the first book devoted to the musicals that Zanuck produced at these three studios. The volume spotlights how he placed his personal imprint on the genre and how—especially at Twentieth Century-Fox—he nurtured and showcased several blonde female stars who headlined the studio’s musicals—including Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Vivian Blaine, June Haver, Marilyn Monroe, and Sheree North. Building upon Bernard F. Dick’s previous work in That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical, this volume illustrates the richness of the American movie musical, tracing how these song-and-dance films fit within the career of Darryl F. Zanuck and within the timeline of Hollywood history.

Embracing the Golden Years

Author : Barrett Williams
Publisher : Barrett Williams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embracing the Golden Years written by Barrett Williams and published by Barrett Williams. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Embracing the Golden Years Your Guide to Mindful Aging and Lifelong Well-being** Step into a transformative journey with "Embracing the Golden Years," the essential eBook that delivers a comprehensive roadmap to aging mindfully and vibrantly. Whether you're approaching retirement, adjusting to new life phases, or seeking enrichment in your daily routine, this guide is designed to empower you with the tools and insights you need for a fulfilling and dynamic life. Discover the art of mindful aging starting with an introduction that delves into embracing change with grace and developing a positive mindset. Learn the science behind mindfulness and aging, and unlock the secrets to maintaining physical health and vitality with gentle exercise routines, nutritional guidelines, and strategies for managing chronic conditions. Mental well-being and cognitive health take center stage as you explore brain-boosting activities, the benefits of meditation, and ways to address memory concerns. Emotional resilience and happiness are just a chapter away, guiding you through the emotional changes that come with aging and offering techniques for stress reduction and finding joy in everyday moments. Strengthen your social connections and engage with your community by building a supportive network and embracing digital connectivity. Rediscover purpose and meaning in later life by nurturing your passions, volunteering, and setting new goals. The guide also provides practical advice on daily mindfulness routines, yoga, and tai chi, as well as tips for mindful travel and leisure. Creative expression through art, music, dance, and writing opens new avenues for fulfillment. Explore holistic health approaches, including alternative therapies and herbal remedies, to enhance your well-being. Navigate major life transitions with confidence, from retirement to coping with loss, and create a supportive living environment that's safe and comfortable. Financial wellness is covered in detail, offering guidance on budgeting, investments, and healthcare costs. Conclude your journey with chapters on lifelong learning, spiritual growth, and legacy building—teaching you how to document life stories, plan ethically, and create lasting traditions. Finally, facing the end-of-life planning with peace and clarity, understanding advance directives, and having those crucial conversations. "Embracing the Golden Years" is the ultimate companion for anyone seeking to enhance their golden years with mindfulness, health, and happiness. Start living your best life today!

Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

Author : Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967941
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy written by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show’s humor. Through the character of the vain, cheap everyman, Benny created a fall guy, whose frustrated struggles with his employees addressed midcentury America’s concerns with race, gender, commercialism, and sexual identity. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley contextualizes her analysis of Jack Benny and his entourage with thoughtful insight into the intersections of competing entertainment industries and provides plenty of evidence that transmedia stardom, branded entertainment, and virality are not new phenomena but current iterations of key aspects in American commercial cultural history.

The Golden Age

Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429915609
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age written by John C. Wright and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2003-04-14 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Age is Grand Space Opera, a large-scale SF adventure novel in the tradition of A. E. Van vogt and Roger Zelazny, with perhaps a bit of Cordwainer Smith enriching the style. It is an astounding story of super science, a thrilling wonder story that recaptures the excitements of SF's golden age writers. The Golden Age takes place 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Within the frame of a traditional tale-the one rebel who is unhappy in utopia-Wright spins an elaborate plot web filled with suspense and passion. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion to celebrate the thousand-year anniversary of the High Transcendence. There he meets first an old man who accuses him of being an impostor and then a being from Neptune who claims to be an old friend. The Neptunian tells him that essential parts of his memory were removed and stored by the very government that Phaethon believes to be wholly honorable. It shakes his faith. He is an exile from himself. And so Phaethon embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system--Jupiter is now a second sun, Mars and Venus terraformed, humanity immortal--among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms that are partly both, to recover his memory, and to learn what crime he planned that warranted such preemptive punishment. His quest is to regain his true identity. The Golden Age is one of the major, ambitious SF novels of the year and the international launch of an important new writer in the genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Sonic Boom

Author : Peter Ames Carlin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250301572
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Sonic Boom written by Peter Ames Carlin and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From journalist Peter Ames Carlin, Sonic Boom captures the rollicking story of the most successful record label in the history of popular music, Warner Bros. Records, and the remarkable secret to its meteoric rise. The roster of Warner Brothers Records and its subsidiary labels reads like the roster of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Prince, Van Halen, Madonna, Tom Petty, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, and dozens of others. But the most compelling figures in the Warner Bros. story are the sagacious Mo Ostin and the unlikely crew of hippies, eccentrics, and enlightened execs. Ostin and his staff transformed an out-of-touch company, revolutionized the industry, and, within just a few years, created the most successful record label in the history of the American music industry. How did they do it? One day in 1967, the newly tapped label president Mo Ostin called his team together to share his grand strategy: he told them to stop trying to make hit records/ "Let’s just make good records and turn those into hits.” With that, Ostin ushered in a counterintuitive model that matched the counterculture. His offbeat crew recruited outsider artists and gave them free rein, while rejecting out-of-date methods of advertising, promotion, and distribution. And even as they set new standards for in-house weirdness, the upstarts’ experiments and innovations paid off, to the tune of hundreds of legendary hit albums. Warner Bros Records conquered the music business by focusing on the music rather than the business. Their story is as raucous as it is inspiring—pure entertainment that also maps a route to that holy grail: love and money. Includes black-and-white photographs

Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy

Author : Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295048
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy written by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrepreneur, becoming one of the pioneering "showrunners" combining producer, writer and performer into one job. His modern style of radio humor eschewed stale jokes in favor informal repartee with comic hecklers like his valet Rochester (played by Eddie Anderson) and Mary Livingstone his offstage wife. These quirky characters bouncing off each other in humorous situations created the situation comedy. In this career study, we learn how Jack Benny found ingenious ways to sell his sponsors' products in comic commercials beloved by listeners, and how he dealt with the challenges of race relations, rigid gender ideals and an insurgent new media industry (TV). Jack Benny created classic comedy for a rapidly changing American culture, providing laughter that buoyed radio listeners from 1932's depths of the Great Depression, through World War II to the mid-1950s"--Provided by publisher.

The Golden Age of Video Games

Author : Roberto Dillon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439873240
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Video Games written by Roberto Dillon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital entertainment. The text features the most innovative games and introduces the pioneers who developed them. It offers brief analyses of the most relevant games from each time period. An epilogue covers the events and systems that followed this golden age while the appendices include a history of handheld games and an overview of the retro-gaming scene.

Broadway, the Golden Years

Author : Robert Emmet Long
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826414625
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Broadway, the Golden Years written by Robert Emmet Long and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway, the Golden Years, is a wonderfully readable group portrait of the great Broadway choreographers from the mid-20th century to our own time: Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse, Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune, Graciela Daniele, and Susan Stroman. The hits generated by two generations of choreographer-directors define the Broadway stage: Oklahoma!; On the Town; West Side Story; Hello, Dolly!; Fiddler on the Roof; A Chorus Line; Dancin'; Dream Girls; The Producers; and many more