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Book Synopsis David Merrick, the Abominable Showman by : Howard Kissel
Download or read book David Merrick, the Abominable Showman written by Howard Kissel and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1993 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). David Merrick is the most astonishing showman of our time, and perhaps of all time. No other producer, not even Florenz Ziegfeld nor the combined lights of the Shubert brothers, has equalled his percentage of hits or his demonic flair for publicity. In this first-ever biography, Howard Kissel from his decade-long investigation reveals the man, the mask, and the myth of David Merrick. The charismatic and reclusive mogul emerges as a Broadway version of Howard Hughes, with his own panoply of eccentricities, genius and neuroses. Merrick's much publicized and oftentimes staged battles and feuds are re-ignited here full force with such major personalities as Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason, Ethel Merman, Lena Horne, Woody Allen, Peter Ustinov, Andy Griffith, Anthony Newley, Peter Brook, and Carol Channing. Over a hundred interviews with the major players in Merrick's drama from his pre-Merrick St. Louis childhood as David Margoulies to his latest divorce has yielded the first serious interrogation of a life that until now has been the sole creation of Merrick's own invention and press wizardry.
Book Synopsis Death of a Showman by : Mariah Fredericks
Download or read book Death of a Showman written by Mariah Fredericks and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady’s maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. “A lively upstairs/downstairs mystery.”—New York Times Book Review on A Death of No Importance It is the summer of 1914 and lady’s maid Jane Prescott is back in New York with the Tylers after a glittering society wedding in Europe. On their return, Jane learns another wedding has taken place. Her old dancing partner, Leo Hirschfeld, has married a chorus girl in his new Broadway musical. Jane and Louise Tyler are pulled into the sparkling and scandalous world of Broadway, as a star struck Louise invests in Leo's show, and Jane chaperones her at rehearsals. But behind the glittering facade of the theater, there are rivalries, secret romances, and some very dodgy business practices. When the show's abusive producer, Sidney Warburton, is murdered, the list of suspects is long. Was it the comedic star or her gambler boyfriend? The disgruntled costume designer? The beautiful, blond dancer, her jealous husband? Or was it Leo himself, who had more reason than anyone to hate Sidney Warburton? As the First World war looms in the distance, Jane and tabloid reporter Michael Behan must strip back the masks of these consummate performers before one of them kills again.
Download or read book P.T. Barnum written by David K. Wright and published by Raintree. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the life and accomplishments of the man who is known as the creator of the greatest show on Earth.
Download or read book American Showman written by Ross Melnick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel ÒRoxyÓ Rothafel (1882Ð1936) built an influential and prolific career as film exhibitor, stage producer, radio broadcaster, musical arranger, theater manager, war propagandist, and international celebrity. He helped engineer the integration of film, music, and live performance in silent film exhibition; scored early Fox Movietone films such as Sunrise (1927); pioneered the convergence of film, broadcasting, and music publishing and recording in the 1920s; and helped movies and moviegoing become the dominant form of mass entertainment between the world wars. The first book devoted to RothafelÕs multifaceted career, American Showman examines his role as the key purveyor of a new film exhibition aesthetic that appropriated legitimate theater, opera, ballet, and classical music to attract multi-class audiences. Roxy scored motion pictures, produced enormous stage shows, managed many of New YorkÕs most important movie houses, directed and/or edited propaganda films for the American war effort, produced short and feature-length films, exhibited foreign, documentary, independent, and avant-garde motion pictures, and expanded the conception of mainstream, commercial cinema. He was also one of the chief creators of the radio variety program, pioneering radio broadcasting, promotions, and tours. The producers and promoters of distinct themes and styles, showmen like Roxy profoundly remade the moviegoing experience, turning the deluxe motion picture theater into a venue for exhibiting and producing live and recorded entertainment. RoxyÕs interest in media convergence also reflects a larger moment in which the entertainment industry began to create brands and franchises, exploit them through content release Òevents,Ó and give rise to feature films, soundtracks, broadcasts, live performances, and related consumer products. Regularly cited as one of the twelve most important figures in the film and radio industries, Roxy was instrumental to the development of film exhibition and commercial broadcasting, musical accompaniment, and a new, convergent entertainment industry.
Book Synopsis The Art and Making of The Greatest Showman by : Signe Bergstrom
Download or read book The Art and Making of The Greatest Showman written by Signe Bergstrom and published by Weldon Owen. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glorious world of P.T. Barnum and the holiday movie The Greatest Showman come to life in this lavish art book. Featuring unit photography and concept art of stars Hugh Jackman, Zac Ephron, Michelle Williams, and Zendaya as well as behind-the-scenes tales of the film’s making. Lyrics to the movie musical’s showstopping tunes, by the song-writing team behind La-La Land. Foreword by Director Michael Gracey.
Download or read book Tom Cruise written by Andrew Morton and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Morton uncovers the true story of the biggest celebrity of our age. Everyone knows Tom Cruise—or at least what he wants us to know. We know that the man behind the smile overcame a tough childhood to star in astonishing array of blockbusters: Top Gun, Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July, A Few Good Men, Jerry Maguire, several Mission: Impossible movies, and more. We know he has taken artistic chances, too, earning him three Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations. But beyond that, the picture becomes a bit less clear... We know that Tom is a devoted follower of the Church of Scientology. We know that, despite persistent rumors about his sexuality, he has been married to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman, and Katie Holmes. But it was not until he jumped on Oprah's couch to proclaim his love for Katie and denounced Brooke Shields for turning to the "Nazi science" of psychiatry that we began to realize how much we did not know about the charming, hardworking star. For all the headlines and the rumors, the real Tom Cruise has remained surprisingly hidden—until now.
Download or read book Showman written by David Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authorized biography of this Hollywood producer, who made REBECCA and GONE WITH THE WIND, looking at his career from his swift rise to prominence to the collapse of his empire.
Book Synopsis The Showman and the Slave by : Benjamin Reiss
Download or read book The Showman and the Slave written by Benjamin Reiss and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling story about one of the nineteenth century's most famous Americans, Benjamin Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman who was said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history. In piecing together the fragmentary and conflicting evidence of the event, Reiss paints a picture of people looking at history, at the human body, at social class, at slavery, at performance, at death, and always--if obliquely--at themselves. At the same time, he reveals how deeply an obsession with race penetrated different facets of American life, from public memory to private fantasy. Concluding the book is a piece of historical detective work in which Reiss attempts to solve the puzzle of Heth's real identity before she met Barnum. His search yields a tantalizing connection between early mass culture and a slave's subtle mockery of her master.
Book Synopsis Seventy Years a Showman by : George Sanger
Download or read book Seventy Years a Showman written by George Sanger and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gem of a Victorian autobiography introduces one of Britain's greatest showmen: circus pioneer 'Lord' George Sanger. Welcome to real-life Dickens, as we enter the wild world of 19th century peep-shows, freaks, menageries and travelling fairs. Fun, dark, irresistible. This new edition adds gorgeous illustrations, useful intro and index.
Book Synopsis A Wandering Showman, I by : David Lano
Download or read book A Wandering Showman, I written by David Lano and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hollywood's Master Showman by : Charles Beardsley
Download or read book Hollywood's Master Showman written by Charles Beardsley and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sidney Patrick Grauman (1879-1950) was the dominant movie palace impresario west of Chicago in the 1920s and one of the most flamboyantly successful theatrical talents ever associated with films. His story is the story of early motion pictures in Hollywood, a colorful and fascinating tale that needed to be told. Charles Beardsley has captured the narrative of Grauman's life using the words of the press, the accounts of friends, and analysis of his works. It is indeed a comprehensive and enlightening effort. Gentle and generous, soft-spoken and mild-mannered, possessing a wicked sense of humor and a brilliant imagination, Grauman had a genius for translating his personal visions into stage spectacles of awesome proportions. He was responsible for the design and construction of several famous and highly sophisticated Los Angeles theaters that bore his name over their marquees: Grauman's Million Dollar, Grauman's Egyptian, Grauman's Metropolitan, and Grauman's Chinese. He is credited with creation of the movie prologue, a type of stage show that he developed to precede the first-run silent films he exhibited. Many of the stage features that Grauman introduced have since become standard technical theater procedure and as such are in wide use today. In addition to being an industry giant, Sid Grauman was a friendly, generous, much-loved individual who adored practical jokes and enjoyed playing them upon such people as Charlie Chaplin. An affable man, Grauman was a gregarious personality who numbered among his associates the Hollywood greats: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, Mabel Normand, Marion Davies, Cecil B. DeMille, D.W. Griffith, and Fred Niblo. Within these pages are a wealth of anecdotes about these people and many others who were prominent in developing silent films into the most popular universal entertainment medium of its time. Grauman's sumptuous movie palaces, elaborate and innovative staging, and keen eye for talent and publicity made him a legend in his lifetime, a man who is still remembered with awe and respect by all who saw his work in its prime. While this book deals extensively with the details of Grauman's management of his various houses, it is no mere documentary. Nor is it a chronological biography, since it explains Grauman's career and major professional achievements. Instead, it is a collection of narrative flashes, accurately reproducing the spirit of Grauman's life and times, that pick out an event in one decade to describe and illuminate an event in another. Grauman obtained his first taste of show business working with his father at Dawson, Alaska, during the 1898 Yukon Gold Rush and went on to become "Mr. Show Business" of Hollywood. This affectionate memoir covers Grauman's early years, his San Francisco theaters and his many discoveries, including Fatty Arbuckle, Al Jolson, Jackie Coogan, and Myrna Loy. The brilliant parade of prologues presented in the five Los Angeles Grauman houses and the premieres that drew crowds of over one hundred thousand screaming fans are described in vivid detail. Anecdotal and descriptive, this book goes behind the scenes to explain how Grauman designed and built his unique theaters, how he worked, and how he blended his prologues with live actors and symphony orchestras to enhance every film that he presented. Often called the Barnum of Hollywood, Sid Grauman was a great deal more. Not only did he glorify the movie prologue, he invented the red-carpet premiere. A colorful blend of Max Reinhardt, Sergei Diaghilev, David Belasco, Flo Ziegfeld, and Buffalo Bill Cody, he was still very much an original who left his singular mark on the silent film era. Until this lively, detailed portrait of the maestro, Grauman has never been fully documented. But that gap, a major one in the history of American films, has now been filled by this entertaining volume. Illustrated with period photographs, in black and white and color, a vivid portrait of this master showman has been achieved."--Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The Genial Showman by : Edward Peron Hingston
Download or read book The Genial Showman written by Edward Peron Hingston and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Showman of the Screen by : A. T. McKenna
Download or read book Showman of the Screen written by A. T. McKenna and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, immaculately dressed, and shockingly foul-mouthed, Joseph E. Levine (1905--1987) was larger than life. He rose from poverty in Boston's West End to become one of postwar Hollywood's most prolific independent promoters, distributors, and producers. Alternately respected and reviled, this master of movie promotion was responsible for bringing films as varied as Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956), Hercules (1958), The Graduate (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and A Bridge Too Far (1977) to American audiences . In the first biography of this controversial pioneer, A. T. McKenna traces Levine's rise as an influential packager of popular culture. He explores the mogul's pivotal role in many significant industry innovations from the 1950s to the 1970s, examining his use of saturation release tactics and bombastic advertising campaigns. Levine was also a trailblazer in promoting European art house cinema in the 1960s. He made Federico Fellini's 81⁄2 (1963) a hit in America, feuded with Jean-Luc Godard over their production of Contempt (1963), and campaigned aggressively for Sophia Loren to become the first actress to win an Oscar for a foreign language performance for her role in Two Women (1960). Despite his significant accomplishments and prominent role in shaping film distribution and promotion in the post-studio era, Levine is largely overlooked today. McKenna's in-depth biography corrects misunderstandings and misinformation about this colorful figure, and offers a sober assessment of his contributions to world cinema. It also illuminates Levine's peculiar talent for movie- and self-promotion, as well as his extraordinary career in the motion picture business.
Book Synopsis The genial showman, reminiscences of the life of 'Artemus Ward'. by : Edward Peron Hingston
Download or read book The genial showman, reminiscences of the life of 'Artemus Ward'. written by Edward Peron Hingston and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World by : Edward Peron Hingston
Download or read book The Genial Showman, Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward and Pictures of a Showman's Carrer in the Western World written by Edward Peron Hingston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Book Synopsis Fifty Years of a Showman's Life by : Thomas Forder Plowman
Download or read book Fifty Years of a Showman's Life written by Thomas Forder Plowman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum by : Candace Fleming
Download or read book The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum written by Candace Fleming and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman! The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings us the larger-than-life biography of showman P. T. Barnum. Known far and wide for his jumbo elephants, midgets, and three-ring circuses, here’ s a complete and captivating look at the man behind the Greatest Show on Earth. Readers can visit Barnum’s American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 inches tall) and his tinier bride (32 inches); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum’s legacy to the 19th century and beyond. Drawing on old circus posters, photographs, etchings, ticket stubs—and with incredible decorative art by Ray Fenwick—this book presents history as it’s never been experienced before—a show-stopping event!
