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If I want to send a message I'll call Western Union. This famous line has been attributed to various movie moguls yet while these moguls ruled the Hollywood studio system movies were in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Films included more messages ideas themes and pontifications than they ever have since. Although producers trembled at commands from the front office writers (the low men and women on the totem pole) went quietly to their typewriters and as the subversive revolutionaries that most writers are turned out prose that did send messages. How could they resist? They had the biggest and best platform in the world: Hollywood movies. The 200 speeches collected in ÊReady for My Close-Up!Ê are from some of the best ä and a few of the worst ä films ever made. From Groucho Marx's I shot an elephant in my pajamas to Julia Roberts's What it takes to be a movie star here is the wit and wisdom of the great Hollywood screenwriters.

Ready for My Close-Up!: Great Movie Speeches

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    Publisher: Limelight Editions
    Publication Date: 01/11/2007
    ISBN13: 9780879103507, 978-0879103507
    ISBN10: 879103507

    Number of Pages: 304

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

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    If I want to send a message I'll call Western Union. This famous line has been attributed to various movie moguls yet while these moguls ruled the Hollywood studio system movies were in the midst of a golden age of dialogue. Films included more messages ideas themes and pontifications than they ever have since. Although producers trembled at commands from the front office writers (the low men and women on the totem pole) went quietly to their typewriters and as the subversive revolutionaries that most writers are turned out prose that did send messages. How could they resist? They had the biggest and best platform in the world: Hollywood movies. The 200 speeches collected in ÊReady for My Close-Up!Ê are from some of the best ä and a few of the worst ä films ever made. From Groucho Marx's I shot an elephant in my pajamas to Julia Roberts's What it takes to be a movie star here is the wit and wisdom of the great Hollywood screenwriters.

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