Author : JOHN P. MARQUAND
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033280666
H. M. PULHAM, ESQUIRE
JOHN P. MARQUAND
H M Pulham Esquire
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H. M. Pulham, Esquire
John Phillips Marquand
Author : John Phillips Marquand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:612997002
H. M. Pulham, Esquire by John Phillips Marquand Pdf
H.M. Pulham, Esquire
John Philips Marquand
Author : John Philips Marquand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:600816219
H.M. Pulham, Esquire by John Philips Marquand Pdf
H. M. Pulham, Esquire
John P. Marquand
Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504015707
H. M. Pulham, Esquire by John P. Marquand Pdf
A Harvard reunion prompts a Boston Brahmin’s search for meaning in this comedy of manners by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Point of No Return. In preparation for the twenty-fifth reunion of his class at Harvard, Harry Pulham is asked to collect and edit the personal histories of his fellow alumni. A glance at the previous year’s class book tells him just how tedious the assignment will be: “I have been very busy all this time practising corporation law and trying to raise a family,” a typical entry reads. “I still like to go to the football games and cheer for Harvard.” Harry’s autobiography is almost indistinguishable from those of his classmates. From his career at a Boston investment firm to his marriage to childhood friend Kay Motford, he has always made the safe, familiar choice—with one exception. For a brief interlude after World War I, Harry joined an advertising agency in Manhattan and fell in love with a beautiful, independent woman unlike anyone he had ever met. A wholly unexpected future opened up for him in those few months, but when family obligations called him back to New England, the relationship came to a sudden end. Now, twenty years later, Harry believes that his story could not have turned out any other way. A clever satire that achieves heartbreaking poignancy, H. M. Pulham, Esquire is a masterpiece from the author declared by the New York Times to be “our foremost fictional chronicler of the well-born.”
H. M. Pulham, Esquire
John P. Marquand
Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917045483
H. M. Pulham, Esquire by John P. Marquand Pdf
H. M. Pulham, Esquire (Classic Reprint)
John P. Marquand
Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0484556533
H. M. Pulham, Esquire (Classic Reprint) by John P. Marquand Pdf
Excerpt from H. M. Pulham, Esquire Well, what's wrong with playing the game? I asked. Because you're old enough not to be playing it, Bill said. I knew what he meant in a way, because 'bill came from New York and he had a different point. Of view. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
H.M. Pulham, Esquire
John P. Marquand
Author : John P. Marquand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074719994
H.M. Pulham, Esquire by John P. Marquand Pdf
AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
American Film Institute
Author : American Film Institute
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0520215214
AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States by American Film Institute Pdf
Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six
Kirk Henderson
Author : Kirk Henderson
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781645367000
Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six by Kirk Henderson Pdf
Hollywood v. Beauty and the Synchronicity of the Six presents the biographies of six movie actresses from the 1920s to the 1970s, with a single actress representing her decade of activity: Louise Brooks 1920s, Jean Harlow 1930s, Hedy Lamarr 1940s, Barbara Payton 1950s, Jean Seberg 1960s, and Sondra Locke 1970s. The synchronicity between the lives of these women is phenomenal, and their stories are as dramatic and exciting as any to come from that town, stretching all the way from complete ruination to thrilling triumph. Along the way, the story of movies in the Golden Age unfolds as six movie actresses try to survive in the most artificial place on Earth. The power elite of Hollywood could transform unknowns into movie stars or erase the famous into oblivion. Since beauty has its own innate power, it is inevitable these two entities would face off.
Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr
Stephen Michael Shearer
Author : Stephen Michael Shearer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429908203
Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr by Stephen Michael Shearer Pdf
The Surprising Story of Hedy Lamarr, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" As a teenage actress in 1920s Austria, performing on the stage and in film in light comedies and musicals, Hedy Kiesler, with her exotic beauty, was heralded across Europe by her mentor, Max Reinhardt. However, it was her nude scene, and surprising dramatic ability, in Ecstasy that made her a star. Ecstasy's notoriety followed her for the rest of her life. She married one of Austria's most successful and wealthy munitions barons, giving up her career for what seemed at first a fairy-tale existence. Instead, as war clouds loomed in the mid-1930s, Hedy discovered that she was trapped in a loveless marriage to a controlling, ruthless man who befriended Mussolini, sold armaments to Hitler, yet hid his own Jewish heritage to become an "honorary Aryan." She fled her husband and escaped to Hollywood, where M-G-M changed her name to Hedy Lamarr and she became one of film's most glamorous stars. She worked with such renowned directors as King Vidor, Victor Fleming, and Cecil B. DeMille, and appeared opposite such respected actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, John Garfield, and James Stewart. But as her career waned, her personal problems and legal wranglings cast lingering shadows over her former image. It wasn't until decades later that the world was stunned to learn of her unexpected role as the inventor of a technology that has become an essential part of everything from military weaponry to cell phones—proof that Hedy Lamarr was far more than merely Delilah to Victor Mature's Samson. She demonstrated a creativity and an intelligence she had always possessed. Stephen Michael Shearer's in-depth and meticulously researched biography, written with the cooperation of Hedy's children, intimate friends, and colleagues, separates the truths from the rumors, the facts from the fables, about Hedy Lamarr, to reveal the life and character of one of classic Hollywood's most beautiful and remarkable women.
The Late John Marquand
Stephen Birmingham
Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504095648
The Late John Marquand by Stephen Birmingham Pdf
The acclaimed social historian and author of Our Crowd presents a colorful portrait of the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. John Marquand, the great literary satirist and chronicler of New England elites, could have been a character in one of his own beloved novels. Here, Stephen Birmingham presents a lively narrative of Marquand’s life, drawing on personal interviews with friends and family. Raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Marquand was both an insider and outcast of the old money set. After attending Harvard and serving overseas in World War I, he began writing stories that captured the lives, manners, and morals of wealthy families confined by their own privilege. Marquand himself joined the ranks of these exclusive families by marrying into them—twice. In The Late John Marquand, Birmingham provides an intimate portrait of the man behind such works as H. M. Pulham, Esquire, and The Late George Apley, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938.
Second Reading
Jonathan Yardley
Author : Jonathan Yardley
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609459246
Second Reading by Jonathan Yardley Pdf
The Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic shares recollections and reviews from his career at the Washington Post. In this book, Jonathan Yardley considers lesser-known works from renowned authors and underappreciated talents, and offers fresh takes on old favorites. Yardley’s reviews of sixty titles include fiction by Gabriel García Márquez, John Cheever, and Henry Fielding; the autobiography of Louis Armstrong; essays by Nora Ephron; and Margaret Leech’s history of Washington during the Civil War. Second Reading is also the memoir of a passionate and lifelong reader told through the books that have meant the most to him. Playing the part of both reviewer and bibliophile, Yardley takes on Steinbeck and Salinger, explores the southern fiction of Shirley Ann Grau and Eudora Welty, looks into a darker side of Roald Dahl, and praises the pulp fiction of William Bradford Huie and the crime novels of John D. MacDonald. Collected from a popular Washington Post column of the same name, Second Reading is an incisive and entertaining look at the career and times of an esteemed critic and the venerable books that shaped him. This delightful consideration reminds readers that thoughtful criticism and a lively sense of fun can exist side by side.
Glamour and Style
Stephen Michael Shearer
Author : Stephen Michael Shearer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493063802
Glamour and Style by Stephen Michael Shearer Pdf
She was called “the most beautiful girl in the world” and during Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, she set standards of beauty and sophistication copied throughout the world during the three decades of her film career. When she made her American cinema debut opposite Charles Boyer in Walter Wanger’s moody 1938 romance-drama, Algiers, her character’s first appearance in that film literally took audiences’ breath away. Her exotic beauty was heralded in picture after picture. Hedy Lamarr is a photographic tribute to this extraordinary woman. Focusing on her spectacular beauty, it will contain hundreds of personal and professional photographs, many never before published, along with private letters, memorabilia, ephemera, estate jewelry, and gowns. It will have a running biographical commentary by biographer Stephen Michael Shearer, author of the definitive book of the star, Beautiful: The Life of Hedy Lamarr (St. Martins Press). This book will give the film fan and avid reader an ample opportunity to view and understand this most remarkable, beautiful woman. And, to introduce her to a new generation.
King Vidor, American
Raymond E. Durgnat,Scott Simmon
Author : Raymond E. Durgnat,Scott Simmon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520330047
King Vidor, American by Raymond E. Durgnat,Scott Simmon Pdf
Film Composers in America
Clifford McCarty
Author : Clifford McCarty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195114736
Film Composers in America by Clifford McCarty Pdf
Film Composers in America is a landmark in the history of film. Here, renowned film scholar Clifford McCarty has attempted to identify every known composer who wrote background musical scores for films in the United States between 1911 and 1970. With information on roughly 20,000 films, the book is an essential tool for serious students of film and a treasure trove for film fans. It spans all types of American films, from features, shorts, cartoons, and documentaries to nontheatrical works, avant-garde films, and even trailers. Meticulously researched over 45 years, the book documents the work of more than 1,500 composers, from Robert Abramson to Josiah Zuro, including the first to score an American film, Walter C. Simon. It includes not only Hollywood professionals but also many composers of concert music--as well as popular music and other genres--whose cinematic work has never before been fully catalogued. The book also features an index that lets readers quickly find the composer for any American film through 1970. To recover this history, much of which was lost or never recorded, McCarty corresponded with or interviewed hundreds of composers, arrangers, orchestrators, musical directors, and music librarians. He also conducted extensive research in the archives of the seven largest film studios--Columbia, MGM, Paramount, RKO, 20th Century-Fox, Universal, and Warner Bros.--and wherever possible, he based his findings on the most reliable evidence, that of the manuscript scores and cue sheets (as opposed to less accurate screen credits). The result is the definitive guide to the composers and musical scores for the first 60 years of American film.
