Save Me, Lloyd Bridges
Save Me, Lloyd Bridges

Author: Champ Clark

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2022-12-14

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1663248540

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My life was going nowhere. So, I decided to buy an accordion. I already had a banjo. My watch told me that it was four o’clock, still time for another margarita, on the rocks...with salt. Then I’d head over to the pawn shop across the street for a looksee. An accordion is a beautiful thing. And I figured if I could find a woman who liked the accordion as much as I did, we could automatically skip to the important stuff. I’d come to the Tip-Top-Tap earlier than usual, hoping to avoid the young skinny pants dudes and see-through-you girls who started to arrive at the Tap around five-thirty. Fifi was behind the bar. Fifi had once been a man, but she had transitioned a few years back, just around the time she helped me out of a very bad situation. Ever since then we’d been pals. Tall—especially in heels—curvy and red-haired, I’d even asked her out once or twice. She was a very pretty woman. But Fifi said she had a policy of not getting involved with the clientele. So, we stayed just pals. Besides, I was too old for her.

You Caught Me Kissing
You Caught Me Kissing

Author: Dorothy Bridges

Publisher: Milk & Cookies

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596873117

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A remarkable memoir chronicles the more than fifty-year love affair betweenctor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, capturing the poignant and emotional sagaf a legendary Hollywood family through a series of anecdotes, vignettes, andoems. Reprint.

Mask and Flippers
Mask and Flippers

Author: Lloyd Bridges

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2018-12-02

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1789127076

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Through his work in motion pictures, Lloyd Bridges appreciated the impact of skin diving upon this medium and presented an exciting picture of future possibilities in underwater photography. The author’s role in Sea Hunt made him keenly aware of the revolution developing in the fields of salvage diving, treasure hunting, search and rescue, science, gold mining, and other virgin areas open to skin divers with imagination and enterprise. He described methods, techniques, and tools already in use and gave an exciting glimpse of future possibilities. First published in 1960, here is the complete story of skin diving as an exciting new field for fun, adventure, and opportunity open to millions of average swimmers. Those who are willing to accept the challenge of exploring and conquering a new world can benefit from past mistakes and the accumulation of experience by early skin divers; and perhaps become tomorrow’s pioneers who have yet to conquer the problems of great depths and reap the harvest on the bottom of the sea.

Hollywood Riots
Hollywood Riots

Author: Doug Dibbern

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 085772794X

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The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. "Hollywood Riots" examines the most vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on Un-American Activities was investigating communists in the film industry. In doing so, it shifts the focus from the politics of Washington to the politics of Los Angeles and from the films of the Hollywood Ten to the more politically complex films of the progressive community at large. Dibbern shows how the movies produced by progressives at the end of the 1950s, including "The Lawless", "The Sound of Fury", "The Underworld", were the logical cinematic parallel to their political and journalistic advocacy fighting the conservative newspapers. In these films they were recasting political events from California's recent past as politically-engaged narratives that were inflected with their own fears of persecution." Hollywood Riots" re-views the work of notable directors like Joseph Losey and Cy Endfield, as well as introducing unheralded political screenwriters and directors such as Daniel Mainwaring, Jo Pagano, and Leo C. Popkin.

Harold Arlen and His Songs
Harold Arlen and His Songs

Author: Walter Frisch

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0197503276

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Harold Arlen's songs like "Over the Rainbow" and "Stormy Weather" form a crucial part of the American soundscape of the twentieth century. From their origins at the Cotton Club of Harlem, the Broadway stage, and Hollywood film studios, they capture an extraordinary range of emotions and styles. Harold Arlen and His Songs is the first book to look at Arlen's music across his long career and through his collaborations with the top lyric writers of his time, including Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, and Ira Gershwin. The book also discusses Arlen's activities as a singer of his music, as well as the performances of vocalists with a strong affinity for it, like Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Barbra Streisand.

Poor No More
Poor No More

Author: Steven Bentley MD

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2016-12-13

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1532011601

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Now retired, author Dr. Steven Bentley was a successful emergency physician. But his path in life wasnt always an easy one. In Poor No MoreAn American Dream, he shares his story of how he survived a rare birth defect, abject poverty, an alcoholic mother, a KKK father, an abusive childrens home, and a cruel step-mother. This memoir tells how Bentley emerged from a difficult childhood and adolescence to practice ER medicine during a time of enormous change in the field and how he developed a lifelong love affair with his chosen profession. He discusses how he found it gratifying to apply his medical knowledge and to impact someones life for the better. He relays a host of stories from both his personal and professional life, detailing the trials and tribulations and the challenges and rewards. Poor No MoreAn American Dream describes Bentleys journey to escape his roots and become a successful doctor in America. It tells about one man who lived in and through some interesting times.

Ladies of the Western
Ladies of the Western

Author: Michael G. Fitzgerald

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-08-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1476607966

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This work features interviews with 51 leading ladies who starred in B-westerns, A-westerns, and television westerns. Some were well-known and others were not, but they all have fascinating stories to tell and they talk candidly about their careers and the many difficulties that went along with their jobs. Back then, conditions were often severe, locations were often harsh, and pay was often minimal. The actresses were sometimes the only females on location and they had to provide their own wardrobe and do their own make-up, as well as discourage the advances of over-affectionate co-stars. Despite these difficulties, most of the women interviewed for this agree that they had fun. Claudia Barrett, Virginia Carroll, Francis Dee, Lisa Gaye, Marie Harmon, Kathleen Hughes, Linda Johnson, Ruta Lee, Colleen Miller, Gigi Perreau, Ann Rutherford, Ruth Terry, and June Vincent are among the 51 actresses interviewed.