Jean Negulesco

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476627526

Get Book

Jean Negulesco by Michelangelo Capua Pdf

Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was later hired as a director by various studios--mostly for ballet and musical shorts--before being assigned to a number of commercially successful films. During his 30-year career, he worked in several European countries yet it was in the U.S. he achieved his greatest success, with Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. Dubbed "The Prince of Melodrama" by critics, he directed films of all genres, working with stars like Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Fred Astaire and many others. Negulesco was nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1948 for Johnny Belinda--now considered a classic, along with his The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Humoresque (1946), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). This book--the first on him since his 1984 autobiography--covers his extraordinary life and career, with extensive analyses of his films.

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476666532

Get Book

Jean Negulesco by Michelangelo Capua Pdf

Originally a successful painter from Romania, Jean Negulesco worked in Hollywood first as an art director, then as a second unit director. He was later hired as a director by various studios--mostly for ballet and musical shorts--before being assigned to a number of commercially successful films. During his 30-year career, he worked in several European countries yet it was in the U.S. he achieved his greatest success, with Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. Dubbed "The Prince of Melodrama" by critics, he directed films of all genres, working with stars like Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Bette Davis, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, Fred Astaire and many others. Negulesco was nominated for Best Director by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1948 for Johnny Belinda--now considered a classic, along with his The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Humoresque (1946), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). This book--the first on him since his 1984 autobiography--covers his extraordinary life and career, with extensive analyses of his films.

Author : Kaveh Askari
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520329751

Get Book

Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran by Kaveh Askari Pdf

"Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. Kaveh Askari examines film circulation and its effects on Iranian film cultures in the period before foreign studios established official distribution channels and before Iran became a notable site of so-called world cinema. This transcultural history draws on cross-archival comparison of films, distributor memos, licensing contracts, advertising schemes, and audio recordings. Askari meticulously tracks the fragile and sometimes forgotten material of film as it circulated through the Middle East into Iran and shows how this material was rerouted, reengineered, and reimagined in the process. "--

Author : Michelangelo Capua
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496850270

Get Book

Jean Peters by Michelangelo Capua Pdf

From 1947 to 1955, Jean Peters (1926–2000) appeared in films opposite such Hollywood leading men as Tyrone Power, Marlon Brando, Burt Lancaster, Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark, and Robert Wagner, as well as international stars including Louis Jourdan and Rossano Brazzi. Despite her talent and status, Peters eschewed the star-studded lifestyle of 1950s Hollywood, turning down roles that were “too sexy” and refusing to socialize with other actors, discuss her private life in the press, or lead the glamorous lifestyle often associated with her peers. She was seen as a mystery to reporters, who constantly tried to discover tidbits about her personal life. In 1957, her marriage to Howard Hughes led to her retirement from acting and her further withdrawal from social events in Hollywood. Instead, she shifted her attention to charitable work, arts and crafts, and university studies in psychology and anthropology. Her status as an enigma only grew as she agreed never to speak of her marriage with Hughes. After her divorce, however, Peters attempted to resume her acting career in television but never regained her previous level of stardom. Jean Peters: Hollywood's Mystery Girl grants an in-depth analysis of each of her nineteen films and is enriched by several high-quality photographs from the author’s personal collection.

Author : Katherine Fama,Jorie Lagerwey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978828537

Get Book

Single Lives by Katherine Fama,Jorie Lagerwey Pdf

Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and excitement coalesced. Moving between the family home and domestic independence, between household and public labor, and between celibacy and a range of sexual relations, the single woman remains a literary and cultural focus, as she has been from the 19th to the 21st centuries. This collection offers readers the opportunity to uncover the social, political, economic, and cultural connections between the "singly blessed" women and "bachelor girls" of the 19th and early 20th century and "all the single ladies" of the 21st century. Essays read singleness across genre and field, offering new approaches to studying modern and contemporary single women in literature, film, and history. Authors engage scholarship from wide ranging fields of social history, women's studies, queer theory, and Black feminism. The collection reads familiar texts against the grain, rethinking archival resources, revisiting familiar figures, and exploring new sources: cookbooks, ephemera, personal documents, recovered film histories, and forms of domestic space and labor.This is a book for scholars of gender and sexuality, social history, feminist film and media scholars, and literary historians, and reflects the urgent contemporary interest in single women as a political, economic, and cultural force.

Author : Rocky Lang,Barbara Hall
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683356660

Get Book

Letters from Hollywood by Rocky Lang,Barbara Hall Pdf

Rare correspondence from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and other Hollywood luminaries from the silent film era to the 1970s. Letters from Hollywood reproduces in full color scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the most notable and talented film industry names of all time—from the silent era to the golden age, and up through the pre-email days of the 1970s. Culled from libraries, archives, and personal collections, the 135 letters, memos, and telegrams are organized chronologically and are annotated by the authors to provide backstories and further context. While each piece reveals a specific moment in time, taken together, the letters convey a bigger picture of Hollywood history. Contributors include celebrities like Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, and Jane Fonda. This is the gift book of the season for fans of classic Hollywood. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovitch. “This is, quite simply, one of the finest books I’ve ever read about Hollywood.” —Leonard Maltin

Author : Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442245501

Get Book

The Encyclopedia of Film Composers by Thomas S. Hischak Pdf

For more than a century, original music has been composed for the cinema. From the early days when live music accompanied silent films to the present in which a composer can draw upon a full orchestra or a lone synthesizer to embody a composition, music has been an integral element of most films. By the late 1930s, movie studios had established music departments, and some of the greatest names in film music emerged during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Bernard Herrmann. Over the decades, other creators of screen music offered additional memorable scores, and some composers—such as Henry Mancini, Randy Newman, and John Williams—have become household names. The Encyclopedia of Film Composers features entries on more than 250 movie composers from around the world. It not only provides facts about these artists but also explains what makes each composer notable and discusses his or her music in detail. Each entry includes Biographical material Important dates Career highlights Analysis of the composer’s musical style Complete list of movie credits This book brings recognition to the many men and women who have written music for movies over the past one hundred years. In addition to composers from the United States and Great Britain, artists from dozens of other countries are also represented. A rich resource of movie music history, The Encyclopedia of Film Composers will be of interest to fans of cinema in general as well as those who want to learn more about the many talented individuals who have created memorable scores.

Author : Steven Rybin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978815964

Get Book

Playful Frames by Steven Rybin Pdf

A widescreen frame in cinema beckons the eye to playfully, creatively roam. Such technology also gives inventive filmmakers room to disrupt and redirect audience expectations, surprising viewers through the use of a wider, more expansive screen. Playful Frames: Styles of Widescreen Cinema studies the poetics of the auteur-driven widescreen image, offering nimble, expansive analyses of the work of four distinctive filmmakers – Jean Negulesco, Blake Edwards, Robert Altman, and John Carpenter – who creatively inhabited the nooks and crannies of widescreen moviemaking during the final decades of the twentieth century. Exploring the relationship between aspect ratio and subject matter, Playful Frames shows how directors make puckish use of widescreen technology. All four of these distinctive filmmakers reimagined popular genres (such as melodrama, slapstick comedy, film noir, science fiction, and horror cinema) through their use of the wide frame, and each brings a range of intermedial interests (painting, performance, and music) to their use of the widescreen image. This study looks specifically at the technological underpinnings, aesthetic shapes, and interpretive implications of these four directors’ creative use of widescreen, offering a way to reconsider the way wide imagery still has the potential to amaze and move us today.

Author : Jean Negulesco
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011551101

Get Book

Things I Did and Things I Think I Did by Jean Negulesco Pdf

The artist, writer, and director of such films as "Johnny Belinda" and "How to Marry a Millionaire" recalls his artist's life in the Paris of the twenties, his Hollywood years and the celebrities he encountered, and his long, productive life in the arts

Author : Clifton Webb
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496800640

Get Book

Sitting Pretty by Clifton Webb Pdf

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when leading men were supposed to be strong, virile, and brave, Clifton Webb projected an image of flip, acerbic arrogance. He was able to play everything from a decadent columnist (Laura) to a fertile father (Cheaper by the Dozen and The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker), delivering lines in an urbanely clipped, acidly dry manner with impeccable timing. Sitting Pretty is his remarkable story. Long before his film career began, Webb was a child actor and later a suavely effete song-and-dance man in numerous Broadway musicals and revues. The turning point in his career came in 1941 when his good friend Noël Coward cast him in Blithe Spirit. Director Otto Preminger saw Webb's performance and cast him in Laura in 1944. Webb began to write his autobiography, but he said that he eventually had gotten "bogged down" in the process. However, he did complete six chapters and left a hefty collection of notes that he intended to use in the proposed book. His writing is as witty and sophisticated as his onscreen persona. Those six chapters, information and voluminous notes, and personal research by the coauthor provide an intimate view of an amazingly talented man's life and times.

Author : United States. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108010251836

Get Book

Decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Re the United States V. Leon Josephson (Majority and Dissenting Opinions) by United States. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit) Pdf

Author : Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2022 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:532091948X

Get Book

Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Represe Ntatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session by Estados Unidos. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Communism
ISBN : LOC:00079094626

Get Book

Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : Gabriella Oldham
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520911741

Get Book

First Cut by Gabriella Oldham Pdf

First Cut offers an opportunity to learn what film editing really is, and to learn from the source. Gabriella Oldham's interviews with twenty-three award-winning film editors give a full picture of the complex art and craft of editing a film. Filled with animated anecdotes and detailed examples, this is the first book to provide a comprehensive treatment of both documentary and feature film editing.

Author : Susan Robertson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644248010

Get Book

Bucking Hollywood by Susan Robertson Pdf

A unique and gifted actor once bucked the system in Hollywood. This is the life story of movie and TV actor Dale Robertson, told by the person who knew him best: his wife, Susan. Susan says she is not a professional writer but wanted to write this book totally herself with her own thoughts, ideas, time frame, and no ghost writer. She laughs when someone says, "Well, you are a writer now." As she states in the book, Dale would joke when someone would approach him to do his autobiography. He'd say, "Not now." It was because he did not know how it ended. Also he would remind them of all the thousands of interviews he had done over the years and to "let the younger actors do these interviews now." Because the autobiography had not been done, Susan wanted to do it to help in some way to preserve his legacy. Susan now resides in San Diego, California, to be closer to family and hopes folks will enjoy the book. She knows her husband better and that he did not compromise himself in the film industry and in life.