[PDF] Whos Who In Hollywood 1900 1976 eBook

Author : Terry Rowan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2015-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1329074491

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A comprehensive film guide featuring Hollywood films, directors, actors and actresses.

Author : Terris C. Howard
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1532052480

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Anders Van Haden was well-known for his roles in many German versions of Hollywood films in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In Anders Van Haden, author Terris. C. Howard, Van Hadens grandson, shares a pictorial biographical history of this bit character actor in Hollywood who started his acting career on stage and silent films in New York state. Born William A. Howard in 1876, Van Haden immigrated to the United States around 1898. This memoir presents a chronological look at the known facts of his stage and silent film career. Based on detailed research, Anders Van Haden includes a host of photographs as well as programs, reviews, movie stills, and candid cast poses accompanied by pertinent facts and history. This historical look at one actors life offers insight into not only Van Hadens career, but the world of the silent film industry.

Author : Bill Warren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 3299 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476625050

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Bill Warren's Keep Watching the Skies! was originally published in two volumes, in 1982 and 1986. It was then greatly expanded in what we called the 21st Century Edition, with new entries on several films and revisions and expansions of the commentary on every film. In addition to a detailed plot synopsis, full cast and credit listings, and an overview of the critical reception of each film, Warren delivers richly informative assessments of the films and a wealth of insights and anecdotes about their making. The book contains 273 photographs (many rare, 35 in color), has seven useful appendices, and concludes with an enormous index. This book is also available in hardcover format (ISBN 978-0-7864-4230-0).

Author : Malcolm Lowry
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820317632

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Although Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) published only two novels--Ultramarine and Under the Volcano--in his lifetime, numerous other works, most of which have since been edited for publication, were in various stages of composition at his death. La Mordida, the longest and most significant of the manuscripts that have not been previously published, is a draft of a novel based on Lowry's visit to Mexico in 1945-46, which ended in the arrest and deportation of Lowry and his wife following a nightmarish run-in with corrupt immigration authorities. On its most immediate level, the title La Mordida--which means "the little bite," Mexican slang for the small bribe that officials are apt to demand in order to expedite matters--refers to the autobiographical protagonist's legal difficulties. In a larger sense, however, it also represents his inability to escape his past, to repay the fine, or debt, that he owes. The central narrative of La Mordida involves a descent into the abyss of self, culminating in the protagonist's symbolic rebirth at the book's end. Lowry planned to use this basic narrative pattern as the springboard for innumerable questions about such concerns as art, identity, the nature of existence, political issues, and alcoholism. Above all, La Mordida was to have been a metafictional work about an author who sees no point in living events if he cannot write about them and who is not only unable to write but suspects that he is just a character in a novel. A reading of La Mordida in the context of Lowry's aesthetic theories and psychological problems shows why he dreaded the completion of his projects to such an extent that he called success a "horrible disaster" and compared death to "the accepted manuscript of one's life." The reason, La Mordida makes clear, lies partly in the aesthetic theories that led Lowry to attempt a book that he prophetically called "something never dreamed of before, a work of art so beyond conception it could not be written." Patrick A. McCarthy's edition of La Mordida is based on materials held in the Malcolm Lowry Archive at the University of British Columbia. Its publication provides essential evidence for a balanced assessment of Lowry's creative processes and his achievement as a writer.

Author : Robert J. Lentz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786487224

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A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, including It's a Wonderful Life, Crossfire, In a Lonely Place, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Big Heat, Oklahoma!, and The Bad and the Beautiful, for which she earned an Academy Award. This comprehensive overview of Gloria Grahame's life and work examines each of her feature films in detail, as well as her made-for-television productions, her television-series appearances and her stage career. Also discussed are the varied ways in which Grahame's acting performances were affected by her tumultuous personal life--which included four marriages, the second to director Nicholas Ray and the fourth to Ray's stepson Anthony.

Author : Brent E. Walker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 43,36 MB
Release : 2010-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786457074

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This is a comprehensive career study and filmography of Mack Sennett, cofounder of Keystone Studios, home of the Keystone Kops and other vehicles that showcased his innovative slapstick comedy. The filmography covers the more than 1,000 films Sennett produced, directed, wrote or appeared in between 1908 and 1955, including casts, credits, synopses, production and release dates, locations, cross-references of remade stories and gags, footage excerpted in compilations, identification of prints existing in archives, and other information. The book, featuring 280 photographs, also contains biographies of several hundred performers and technical personnel connected with Sennett.

Author : Paul Loukides
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780879724795

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Beyond the Stars contains 20 essays on stock characters, and character conventions which neatly divide into four categories: ethnic and racial stereotyping; social classis; professions; and the idiosyncratic type. Stock figures in American movies are part of our cultural heritage; they deserve an honored place in theliterature of film and popular culture.