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Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood

Edward Bernds
Mr Bernds Goes to Hollywood Book PDF

Author : Edward Bernds
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461697084

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Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood by Edward Bernds Pdf

Edward Bernds came to Hollywood in 1928 to help United Artists make the transition to sound. He worked with some of the most notable directors in Hollywood including Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and Howard Hawks. Though Bernds loved sound work, he had higher aspirations, and hoped to become a writer and director. His first breakthrough came during the mid-1940s on Columbia shorts starring the Three Stooges. Bernds worked with Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, and company for over twenty years as the Stooges' favorite director. A second breakthrough came when he wrote and directed feature length films, among them the science fiction classics: World Without End, Return of the Fly, Spacemaster X7, and Zsa-zsa Gabor's Queen of Outer Space. Edward Bernds witnessed all of the profound changes that Hollywood underwent from the advent of sound to the start of the Easy Rider era. Fortunately for students and fans of film, he tells his story in this fascinating and vivid account of his life in Hollywood.

A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

Victoria Wilson
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Author : Victoria Wilson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439194065

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A Life of Barbara Stanwyck by Victoria Wilson Pdf

Fifteen years in the making, “860 glittering pages” (The New York Times), the first volume of the astonishing life of Barbara Sanwyck—one of our greatest screen actresses—explores her extraordinary range of eighty-eight motion pictures, her work, her world, and her Hollywood through an American century. Frank Capra called her “the greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Yet Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) was also one of its most underrated stars. Now, Victoria Wilson gives us the most complete portrait of this magnificent actress, seen as the quintessential Brooklyn girl whose family was in fact of old New England stock…her years in New York as dancer and Broadway star…her fraught marriage to Broadway genius, Frank Fay…the adoption of a son; her partnership with Zeppo Marx, with whom she created a horse breeding farm; her fairytale romance and marriage to Robert Taylor, America's most sought-after male star… Here is the shaping of her career working with Hollywood's most important directors, all set against the times—the Depression, the rise of the unions, the coming of World War II, and a fast-evolving motion picture industry. At the heart of the book is Stanwyck herself—how she transformed herself from shunned outsider into one of America's most revered screen actresses. Volume One is the result of more than 100 exhaustive interviews with those who knew Stanwyck, many who never before had agreed to be interviewed: her family, friends, and co-workers from Lauren Bacall, Jane Fonda, and Jackie Cooper to Patricia Neal, Milton Berle, and Kirk Douglas; from Billy Wilder, Bruce Dern, and Anthony Quinn to Jane Powell, Charlton Heston, Arthur Laurents, and Sydney Lumet. “An epic Hollywood narrative,” A Life of Barbara Stanwyck includes never-before-seen letters, journals, and photographs.

Columbia Pictures

Jim Pauley
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Author : Jim Pauley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781493086757

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Columbia Pictures by Jim Pauley Pdf

Columbia Pictures reaches a major milestone in 2024 by celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Columbia’s incorporation. In the same vein of recent Hollywood movie studio titles such as Warner Bros.: Hollywood’s Ultimate Backlot, Paramount: City of Dreams, and MGM: Hollywood’s Greatest Backlot, this new book documents the studio history of Columbia Pictures Corporation in Hollywood, as well as Columbia’s back lot in Burbank, California. This book reveals how Columbia came to be founded by Joe Brandt and brothers Harry and Jack Cohn in 1924, and uses the “studio tour” concept to describe Columbia's history of filmmaking, which includes Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, From Here to Eternity, The Bridge on the River Kwai, as well as many serials and television programs. The book has hundreds of photos, including studio documents, vintage publicity stills, and candids, along with aerial views and maps. The majority of the photos have never been published before.

Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe

Jerry Ziesmer
Ready When You Are Mr Coppola Mr Spielberg Mr Crowe Book PDF

Author : Jerry Ziesmer
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810877009

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Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe by Jerry Ziesmer Pdf

Now available in paperback! No movie has ever been made, or made well, without the character who toils just outside the spotlight. He arranged for the spotlight, hired the spotlight operator, and even made sure that it was trained correctly on the stars. At the end of the day, there would be no blinking movie screens, no blinking Oscar winners, no finished films, good or bad, without the Assistant Director. Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, working on countless films before his retirement in the middle-nineties. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors, and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood including his work on the sets of Apocalypse Now, Close Encounters, and Jerry Maguire. Written with the craft and humor that made Jerry Ziesmer one of the most sought-after assistant directors in Hollywood, this book will be a treasure for students and fans of twentieth-century Hollywood. Cloth edition previously published in 2000.

Confessions of a Hollywood Director

Richard L. Bare
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Author : Richard L. Bare
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810840324

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Confessions of a Hollywood Director by Richard L. Bare Pdf

The excitement then continues as Bare takes us through the highs and lows of his life and career, always with humor."--BOOK JACKET.

Hollywood in Wide Angle

Jack Rothman
Hollywood in Wide Angle Book PDF

Author : Jack Rothman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 081085015X

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Hollywood in Wide Angle by Jack Rothman Pdf

This unique collection of interviews covers the broad spectrum of film directing experience--from first timers to award-winning veterans. Allowed to respond with anonymity, the directors provide candid answers to a wide variety of topics that convey the challenges and rewards of the filmmaking process.

Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons

Elizabeth Rawitsch
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Author : Elizabeth Rawitsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857725578

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Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons by Elizabeth Rawitsch Pdf

Frank Capra has long had a reputation as being the quintessential American director - the man who perfectly captured the identity and core values of the United States with a string of classic films in the 1930s and '40s, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life. However, as Elizabeth Rawitsch argues, Capra's construction of national identity did not occur within an exclusively national context. She points out that many of his films are actually set in, or include sequences set in, China, Latin America, the Philippines and the South Seas. Featuring in-depth textual analysis supported by original archival research, Frank Capra's Eastern Horizons explains that Capra's view of what constituted 'America' changed over time, extending its boundaries to embrace countries often far from the United States. Complicating Edward Said's theory of Orientalism as a strict binary in which the West constructs the East as an inferior 'other', it demonstrates that East and West often intermingle in films such as The Bitter Tea of General Yen and in Capra's orientation documentaries for World War II American servicemen; Capra imagined a kind of global community, albeit one with heavy undertones of British and American imperialism. Investigating shifts in what Capra's America has meant over time, both to Capra and to those who have watched and studied his films, this innovative book offers a startlingly fresh perspective on one of the most iconic figures in American film history.

Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking

George Larkin
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Author : George Larkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429960659

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Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking by George Larkin Pdf

The introduction of post-production during the transition from silent cinema to the Synchronized Sound era in the 1920s' American studio system resulted in what has been a previously unheralded revolution in filmmaking. This transition made possible a product that could be easily mass-produced, serving both to transform and homogenize film presentation, fundamentally creating a new art form. This book studies the discourses surrounding post-production, as well as the aesthetic effects of the post-production’s introduction during the 1920s and 1930s, by exploring the philosophies and issues faced by practitioners during this transitional, transformative period.

Designing for the Movies

Laurence Irving
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Author : Laurence Irving
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810856719

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Designing for the Movies by Laurence Irving Pdf

"Irving's time in Hollywood marked the end of the silent film years, and these memoirs depict the effect on the industry, with astute and penetrating portraits of those who felt the change dramatically. Anyone with even the slightest interest in the history of filmmaking and its early characters will not want to miss this insightful account."--BOOK JACKET.

3-D Filmmakers

Ray Zone
3 D Filmmakers Book PDF

Author : Ray Zone
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : 3-D films
ISBN : 0810854376

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3-D Filmmakers by Ray Zone Pdf

La 4e de couv. porte : "In '3-D filmmakers : conversations with creators of stereoscopic motion pictures', stereographer and film historian Ray Zone presents the insights of twenty-one professionals who have worked in this specialized field. In this collection of interviews, Zone explores the art and craft of 3-D filmmaking with producers, screenwriters, directors, and cinematographers. Interviewees range from Arch Oboler - producer of Bwana Devil, the 1952 feature that triggered the boom of 3-D films - to producers and cinematographers who have worked with single-strip 3-D film production in the 1970s and '80s, 3-D films in theme parks, current IMAX films, and the new and still-evolving format of digital 3-D cinema. These interviews provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at more than five decades of this unique medium. This one-of-a-kind book will interest aspiring filmmakers, stereo photography enthusiasts, cinema buffs, devotees of popular culture, and film historians."

The Films of Leni Riefenstahl

David B. Hinton
The Films of Leni Riefenstahl Book PDF

Author : David B. Hinton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461635062

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The Films of Leni Riefenstahl by David B. Hinton Pdf

After considerable controversy over the bold appraisal of Riefenstahl in his first two editions, Hinton continues to celebrate the life and films of this brilliant woman in the absence of the repetitious clichés that so often accompany a discussion of such a controversial filmmaker. Provided with access to Leni Riefenstahl's personal archives and film collection, the author explores her career. In addition to examining her most famous wartime works, Triumph of the Will and Olympia, the author also investigates her less recognized Tiefland, her unrealized film projects, and her African and underwater films. David B. Hinton drew on recent interviews with the filmmaker to update this edition. (Previous edition is No. 29 in The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series.) Reviews of the Previous Edition: "Raises significant issues involving the relationship between art and politics." —CHOICE "...a solid piece of research....the author is able to illuminate aspects of the production of Triumph of the Will and Olympia previously unknown."—FILMS IN REVIEW "It's best to read her [Leni Riefenstahl] memoirs, anybody's memoirs in fact, with some independent scholarship at hand, and the best place to start is David B. Hinton's thoroughly researched The Films of Leni Riefenstahl."—THE MAGAZINE

Irene Dunne

Wes D. Gehring
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Author : Wes D. Gehring
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810858640

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Irene Dunne by Wes D. Gehring Pdf

Traces the life of the American film actress from her childhood days spent in Louisville, St. Louis, and Madison, Indiana, through her Hollywood career to her retirement, and receipt of the Kennedy Center Award in 1985.

White Horse, Black Hat

Jack C. Lewis
White Horse Black Hat Book PDF

Author : Jack C. Lewis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461731085

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White Horse, Black Hat by Jack C. Lewis Pdf

From the silent era into the early days of television, hundreds of small production companies turned out low-budget films that were played as second features in this country and abroad. As might be expected, a high percentage of these films were Westerns. The people who made these films—producers, directors, writers, actors, and technicians—inhabited what came to be known as Poverty Row, eking out a living doing a job they loved. Author C. Jack Lewis spent 25 years in this world of low-budget Westerns, and here he portrays the human side of the industry through the many people with whom he came into contact as he worked his way from film to film. Highly personal, filled with rare glimpses of a life that lives only in the memory of a few, this narrative is a nostalgic memoir of a bygone time, of those who shared life on Poverty Row—and of the hard work, failures, successes, and dreams made or broken. Liberal use of photos helps readers identify the faces they have seen on their television screens in the reruns of these pictures still making the rounds. A must-read for students of film and popular culture—great for fans of Westerns as well.

The Divine Comic

Carlo Celli
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Author : Carlo Celli
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461672708

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The Divine Comic by Carlo Celli Pdf

Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita è bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor. Benigni has been a steady presence in Italian popular culture since the mid-1970s. This book introduces Benigni's performances in film, stage, and television, little known outside of Italy, with an emphasis on the cultural and intellectual backdrops that characterize his films, including his origins among the Tuscan rhyming poets and his experiences in the Roman avant-garde theater. Benigni's statements about his experiences and apprenticeships with cinema notables like Cesare Zavattini and Federico Fellini reveal a wealth of fresh information and confirm the sense that there is more to this madcap buffoon than meets the eye.

The Man Who Knew Hitchcock

Herbert Coleman,Judy Lanini
The Man Who Knew Hitchcock Book PDF

Author : Herbert Coleman,Judy Lanini
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781461706922

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The Man Who Knew Hitchcock by Herbert Coleman,Judy Lanini Pdf

As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of commercial and critical successes with one of the greats of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock. In this memoir, Coleman describes working on such classics as The Big Clock, Carrie, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Roman Holiday. Coleman also provides vivid portraits of the many celebrated stars he worked with, including Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Alan Ladd, Ray Milland, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQueen, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as some of the greatest directors of the era, including Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler. Above all, Coleman discusses for the first time his long working relationship with Hitchcock during the director's most creatively fertile period. Coleman provides fresh insights into the making of some of Hitchcock's most celebrated films including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. He also discusses his work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the director's long running television series. Not only an historical record of several important and dynamic periods in Hollywood, this memoir offers intimate insight about Hitchcock and other legendary filmmaking notables. Featuring many stories that would have been lost were it not for this book, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir is sure to be of interest to film students, film buffs, and in particular to anyone fascinated by the master of suspense. Illustrated with photos. Published in hardcover as The Hollywood I Knew: A Memoir, 1916-1988 (0-8108-4120-7)