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Author : Bertha Westbrook Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wallace Reid written by Bertha Westbrook Reid and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : E.J. Fleming
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477253
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Wallace Reid written by E.J. Fleming and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognized face in Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today all that is widely remembered of "Wally" Reid is that he died in a padded sanitarium cell, the victim of a fatal morphine addiction. Of all the actors who have enjoyed great fame only to vanish from the public eye, Reid perhaps fell the fastest and the hardest. This first full biography recounts Reid's complicated childhood, his disrupted family history and his rise to film stardom despite these restricting factors. It documents his myriad talents and accomplishments, most notably his gift for brilliant onscreen acting. The text explores in depth how the modern studio, however unconsciously, turned the popular star, a well-adjusted man with a loving family, into a drug-dependent mental patient within three years. His death rocked the foundations of Hollywood, and the huge new industry that he helped build nearly died with "Dashing Wally Reid."
Author : Bertha Westbrook Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book Wallace Reid written by Bertha Westbrook Reid and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David W. Menefee
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ISBN 13 : 9781593936235
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Wally written by David W. Menefee and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Reid still rouses excitement today as Jeff, the blacksmith in D. W. Griffith's famous film, The Birth of a Nation. Audiences thrill to the rip-roaring brawl between Jeff and a band of villainous renegades. The fight was largely real, and many people saw Wally for the first time in that immortal film. They said he became "a star overnight," but he had appeared in more than a hundred films before. In Wally, his story is fully told for the first time. He was "born in a trunk" to an actress mother and a famous playwright father. Wally barely survived the infamous St. Louis cyclone when the storm tore that city apart, but he emerged from the carnage to grow into a popular student, athlete, and early film hero. His handsome looks inspired directors to place him in front of cameras, but his ambitions were to be a writer and director. When director Cecil B. DeMille picked him to appear opposite opera diva Geraldine Farrar in her first films, his aspirations became lost in the dizzying idolatry of worldwide audiences. Wally's popularity soared to a height rivaled only by Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, but his pedestal of fame stood on shaky ground. Genuine tragedy fell upon Wally and his film crew when their train derailed in an isolated Sierra Mountain location. His injuries were treated with morphine, and his family and friends watched helpless as he became caught unaware in the deathly grip of the drug. Dorothy Davenport, his wife and a beautiful star in her own right, remained faithfully by his side, while he wrestled with the demons that threatened to take his life. Wally draws from many original sources and major archives to show how he was received in his time and the importance of his role in the development of motion pictures. The entertaining and informative book contains an extensive biographical treatment, a detailed filmography, and more than 200 rare photographs, posters, advertisements, and lobby cards that capture the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Years.
Author : BERTHA WESTBROOK. REID
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ISBN 13 : 9781033305638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)
Download or read book WALLACE REID written by BERTHA WESTBROOK. REID and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertha Westbrook Reid
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020515507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Wallace Reid; His Life Story written by Bertha Westbrook Reid and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the tragic silent film star Wallace Reid, written by his wife Bertha Westbrook Reid. This book tells the story of Reid's rise to fame as one of Hollywood's most popular leading men, his struggles with addiction, and his untimely death at age 31. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Koszarski
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520085350
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)
Download or read book An Evening's Entertainment written by Richard Koszarski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-05-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the age of silent movies
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Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Cinema Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Alexandra Chasin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627702X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Assassin of Youth written by Alexandra Chasin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States’ little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing racial and immigrant groups and perhaps best known for his zealous pursuit of harsh drug penalties and his particular animus for marijuana users. But what made Anslinger who he was, and what cultural trends did he amplify and institutionalize? Having just passed the hundredth anniversary of the Harrison Act—which consolidated prohibitionist drug policy and led to the carceral state we have today—and even as public doubts about the drug war continue to grow, now is the perfect time to evaluate Anslinger’s social, cultural, and political legacy. In Assassin of Youth, Alexandra Chasin gives us a lyrical, digressive, funny, and ultimately riveting quasi-biography of Anslinger. Her treatment of the man, his times, and the world that arose around and through him is part cultural history, part kaleidoscopic meditation. Each of the short chapters is anchored in a historical document—the court decision in Webb v. US (1925), a 1935 map of East Harlem, FBN training materials from the 1950s, a personal letter from the Treasury Department in 1985—each of which opens onto Anslinger and his context. From the Pharmacopeia of 1820 to death of Sandra Bland in 2015, from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the last passenger pigeon, and with forays into gangster lives, CIA operatives, and popular detective stories, Chasin covers impressive ground. Assassin of Youth is as riotous and loose a history of drug laws as can be imagined—and yet it culminates in an arresting and precise revision of the emergence of drug prohibition. Today, even as marijuana is slowly being legalized, we still have not fully reckoned with the racist and xenophobic foundations of our cultural appetite for the severe punishment of drug offenders. In Assassin of Youth, Chasin shows us the deep, twisted roots of both our love and our hatred for drug prohibition.
Author : Bertha Westbrook Reid
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015099555
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Wallace Reid; His Life Story as Related by His Mother written by Bertha Westbrook Reid and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederic Lombardi
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786490403
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios written by Frederic Lombardi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It could be said that the career of Canadian-born film director Allan Dwan (1885-1981) began at the dawn of the American motion picture industry. Originally a scriptwriter, Dwan became a director purely by accident. Even so, his creativity and problem-solving skills propelled him to the top of his profession. He achieved success with numerous silent film performers, most spectacularly with Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Gloria Swanson, and later with such legendary stars as Shirley Temple and John Wayne. Though his star waned in the sound era, Dwan managed to survive through pluck and ingenuity. Considering himself better off without the fame he enjoyed during the silent era, he went on to do some of his best work for second-echelon studios (notably Republic Pictures' Sands of Iwo Jima) and such independent producers as Edward Small. Along the way, Dwan also found personal happiness in an unconventional manner. Rich in detail with two columns of text in each of its nearly 400 pages, and with more than 150 photographs, this book presents a thorough examination of Allan Dwan and separates myth from truth in his life and films.
Author : Mark Lynn Anderson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949420
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Twilight of the Idols written by Mark Lynn Anderson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars—Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel Normand among them—Mark Lynn Anderson shows how the era’s celebrity culture shaped public ideas about personality and human conduct and played a pivotal role in the emergent human sciences of psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Anderson looks at motion picture stars who embodied various forms of deviance—narcotic addiction, criminality, sexual perversion, and racial indeterminacy. He considers how the studios profited from popularizing ideas about deviance, and how the debates generated by the early Hollywood scandals continue to affect our notions of personality, sexuality, and public morals.
Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813127084
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Silent Players written by Anthony Slide and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry. He profiles the era’s shining stars such as Lillian Gish and Blanche Sweet; leading men including William Bakewell and Robert Harron; gifted leading ladies such as Laura La Plante and Alice Terry; ingénues like Mary Astor and Mary Brian; and even Hollywood’s most famous extra, Bess Flowers. Although each original essay is accompanied by significant documentation and an extensive bibliography, Silent Players is not simply a reference book or encyclopedic recitation of facts culled from the pages of fan magazines and trade periodicals. It contains a series of insightful portraits of the characters who symbolize an original and pioneering era in motion history and explores their unique talents and extraordinary private lives. Slide offers a potentially revisionist view of many of the stars he profiles, repudiating the status of some and restoring to fame others who have slipped from view. He personally interviewed many of his subjects and knew several of them intimately, putting him in a distinctive position to tell their true stories.
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861659
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Hep-cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams written by Jill Jonnes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating, well researched and finely honed... This is a must read." -- Judge Peggy F. Hora, California BenchOnce upon a time in America, morphine and cocaine were routinely sold in pharmacies, and "hop heads" gathered in shadowy basements to smoke opium. So begins Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams, Jill Jonnes's ground-breaking history of illegal drugs in America. Jonnes vividly traces our first turn-of-the-century drug epidemic, successfully quelled, and then follows the story into the postwar era: starting in the jazz world of the northern cities and moving through the "flower power" 1960s to the cocaine and crack explosion of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Saturday Evening Post written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1036 pages
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