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Author: John Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1411617371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed review of 120 popular films, mostly from the 1940s. Includes comprehensive cast and technical credits, plus background and release information.
Author: Phil Stern
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780394581101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNinety black-and-white photographs showcase the work of the photographer who shot the Hollywood community for Life from the 1940s through the 1970s and include candid photographs of Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas, Groucho Marx, and others.
Author: Carla Valderrama
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0762495855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this one-of-a-kind Hollywood history, the creator of Instagram's celebrated @ThisWasHollywood reveals the forgotten past of the film world in a dazzling visual package modeled on the classic fan magazines of yesteryear. From former screen legends who have faded into obscurity to new revelations about the biggest movie stars, Valderrama unearths the most fascinating little-known tales from the birth of Hollywood through its Golden Age. The shocking fate of the world's first movie star. Clark Gable's secret love child. The film that nearly ended Paul Newman's career. A former child star who, at ninety-three, reveals her #metoo story for the first time. Valderrama unfolds these stories, and many more, in a volume that is by turns riveting, maddening, hilarious, and shocking. Drawing on new interviews, archival research, and an exhaustive library of photographs, This Was Hollywood is a compelling and visually stunning catalogue of the lost history of the movies.
Author: John Kobal
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1977-01-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780486235462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne hundred six famous actresses and actors are portrayed in full-page pictures by twenty-four leading Hollywood photographers
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Publisher: e-artnow sro
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2015-09-13
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1329551893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning films and movies, plus those motion pictures that were critically acclaimed, plus some purely personal picks (or should I say, "pix"?) figure in this new movie book by acclaimed (but also disparaged) critic, John Howard Reid. (You can't win them all!)
Author: John Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006-04-05
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1411689151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRemember "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."
Author: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2005-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1411635221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK120 movies are detailed in this 8th book in the "Hollywood Classics" series. The movies range from marvels of special effects like "King Kong" to the first sound-on-disc feature, "Don Juan". Charismatic film stars like Humphrey Bogart, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing Crosby, Deanna Durbin, John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Eddie Cantor, Lana Turner, Alan Ladd, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Kay Francis, John Garfield, Jane Powell and Roy Rogers enlivened many of these classic films.
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 1198
ISBN-13: 9780520079083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Author: John Howard Reid
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-06-26
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1430314877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK200 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.
