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University Press of Kentucky Clarence Brown
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword Preface A Brown Boy Brown Goes to War...and Returns to Tourneur Striking Out Early Years at Universal Brown and the Universal Women Brown at United Artists Brown Meets Garbo On the Trail of '98 An "Uplifting" Film The Master's Apprentice Transition to Sound A Year with Garbo Starmaker Devotion and Deceit Service and Passion Back with Crawford Reunited Going Home Back to the Formual Conquest A Little Piece of Humanity Foreign Affairs Inventions and Conventions Representing the War Front at Home and Away Velvet and Pie A Year with The Yearling Songs and the South The Twilight of a Career Slow Fade-out Acknowledgments Notes Index
£20.70
The University Press of Kentucky Clarence Brown Hollywoods Forgotten Master Screen
Book SynopsisClarence Brown (1890-1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars. In a career spanning five decades, Brown was nominated for five Academy Awards and directed ten different actors in Oscar-nominated performances. Clarence Brownexplores the forces that shaped a complex man who left an indelible mark on cinema.
£48.71
McFarland & Co Inc Karl Dane A Biography and Filmography
Book Synopsis Karl Dane''s life was a Cinderella story gone horribly wrong. The immigrant from Copenhagen was rapidly transformed from a machinist to a Hollywood star after his turn as the tobacco-chewing Slim in The Big Parade in 1925. After that, Dane appeared in more than 40 films with such luminaries as Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and William Haines until development of talkies virtually ruined his career. The most famous casualty of the transition from silent to sound film, Dane reportedly lost his career because of his accent. He was broke and alone at the height of the Depression and committed suicide in 1934.
£29.57
University Press of Mississippi Douglas Fairbanks and the American Century
Book SynopsisDouglas Fairbanks and the American Century brings to life the most popular movie star of his day, the personification of the Golden Age of Hollywood. At his peak, in the teens and twenties, the swashbuckling adventurer embodied the new American Century of speed, opportunity, and aggressive optimism. The essays and interviews in this volume bring fresh perspectives to his life and work, including analyses of films never before examined. Also published here for the first time in English is a first-hand production account of the making of Fairbanks's last silent film, The Iron Mask.Fairbanks (1883-1939) was the most vivid and strenuous exponent of the American Century, whose dominant mode after 1900 was the mass marketing of a burgeoning democratic optimism, at home and abroad. During those first decades of the twentieth century, his satiric comedy adventures shadow-boxed with the illusions of class and custom. His characters managed to combine the American Easterner's experience and pretension and the Westerner's promise and expansion. As the masculine personification of the Old World aristocrat and the New World self-made man--tied to tradition yet emancipated from history--he constructed a uniquely American aristocrat striding into a new age and sensibility.This is the most complete account yet written of the film career of Douglas Fairbanks, one of the first great stars of the silent American cinema and one of the original United Artists (comprising Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith). John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh's text is especially rich in its coverage of the early years of the star's career from 1915 to 1920 and covers in detail several films previously considered lost.
£35.96
University of California Press The Parades Gone By
Book SynopsisThe magic of the silent screen, illuminated by the recollections of those who created it.
£41.39
Faber & Faber David Lean
Book SynopsisIn discussions with the author, film director David Lean talks about his cinema career, which spanned more than half a century and encompassed films such as "Brief Encounter", "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "Lawrence of Arabia". There are also contributions from family and friends.
£21.25
McFarland & Co Inc Evelyn Brent The Life and Films of Hollywoods
Book Synopsis Evelyn Brent''s life and career were going quite well in 1928. She was happily living with writer Dorothy Herzog following her divorce from producer Bernard Fineman, and the tiny brunette had wowed fans and critics in the silent films The Underworld and The Last Command. She''d also been a sensation in Paramount''s first dialogue film, Interference. But by the end of that year Brent was headed for a quick, downward spiral ending in bankruptcy and occasional work as an extra. What happened is a complicated story laced with bad luck, poor decisions, and treachery detailed in this first and only full-length biography.
£27.54
Scarecrow Press American Classic Screen Interviews
Book SynopsisFirst appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and beyond, the magazine ran for a decade and included original interviews, profiles, and articles that delved deep into the rich history of Hollywood. Contributors to the magazine included noted academics in the area of film studies, as well as independent scholars and authors eager to expand the world of cinema. Since the periodical's demise, however, many of the essays and articles have been difficult to findat bestand in some cases, entirely unavailable. In American Classic Screen Interviews, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable interviews conducted for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains rare conversations with some of the brightest stars of yesteryear, as well as gifted filmmakers, celebrated an
£54.00
McFarland & Company Ramon Novarro
Book Synopsis Ramon Novarro was Ben-Hur to moviegoers long before Charlton Heston. The 1926 film made Novarro--known as Ravishing Ramon--one of Hollywood''s most beloved silent film idols. His bright and varied career, spanning silents, talkies, the concert stage, theater, and television, came to a dark conclusion with his murder in 1968. This comprehensive work details both the private and public aspects of Novarro''s life to return him to his rightful place in film history. Includes a complete filmography and numerous photos.
£23.96
