Author : Jackie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 8372278849
Żony Hollywoodu
Jackie Collins
Żony Hollywoodu
Żony Hollywoodu Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Żony Hollywoodu book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Bucking Hollywood
Susan Robertson
Author : Susan Robertson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644248010
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.
From Hester Street to Hollywood
Bettina Berch
Author : Bettina Berch
Publisher : Bettina Berch
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9781607251842
From Hester Street to Hollywood by Bettina Berch Pdf
This is the first full-scale biography of Jewish-American authorAnzia Yezierska. Based on extensive research into her letters and writings, it tells the real story of America's "Sweatshop Cinderella."
Hollywood
Gore Vidal
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307784223
Hollywood by Gore Vidal Pdf
Hollywood marks the fifth episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of six historical novels that form his extended biography of the United States. It is 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson is about to lead the country into the Great War in Europe. In California, a new industry is born that will irreversibly transform America. Caroline Sanford, the alluring heroine of Empire, discovers the power of moving pictures to manipulate reality as she vaults to screen stardom under the name of Emma Traxler. Just as Caroline must balance her two lives--West Coast movie star and East Coast newspaper publisher and senator's mistress--so too must America balance its two power centers: Hollywood and Washington. Here is history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming with intrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screen and American politics. "Hollywood shimmers with the illusion of politics and the politics of illusion," wrote the Chicago Sun-Times. "A wonderfully literate and consistently impressive work of fiction that clearly belongs on a shelf with Vidal's best," said The New York Times Book Review. With a new Introduction by the author.
Hollywood, Florida
Bonnie Wilpon
Author : Bonnie Wilpon
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0738502189
Hollywood, Florida by Bonnie Wilpon Pdf
From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history. This fascinating new history of Hollywood, Florida, showcases more than two hundred of the best postcards available. The postcards within these pages were collected and interpreted by Bonnie Wilpon, a member of the first graduating class of Hollywood Hills High School. The images in this informative volume provide readers with a delightful trip down memory lane, bringing an important period of the area's history to life for visitors and members of the younger generation. Book jacket.
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction
Andrew Horton
Author : Andrew Horton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292779617
Henry Bumstead and the World of Hollywood Art Direction by Andrew Horton Pdf
From a hotel in Marrakech in The Man Who Knew Too Much, to small-town Alabama in To Kill a Mockingbird, to Mission Control in Space Cowboys, creating a fictional, yet wholly believable world in which to film a movie has been the passion and life's work of Henry Bumstead, one of Hollywood's most celebrated production designers. In a career that has spanned nearly seventy years, Bumstead has worked on more than one hundred movies and television films. His many honors include Academy Awards for Art Direction for To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sting, as well as nominations for Vertigo and The Unforgiven. This popularly written and extensively illustrated book tells the intertwining stories of Henry Bumstead's career and the evolution of Hollywood art direction. Andrew Horton combines his analysis of Bumstead's design work with wide-ranging interviews in which Bumstead talks about working with top directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, George Roy Hill, Robert Mulligan, and Clint Eastwood, as well as such stars as Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Doris Day, Jimmy Stewart, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Jerry Lewis, and James Cagney. Numerous production drawings, storyboards, and film stills illustrate how Bumstead's designs translated to film. This portrait of Bumstead's career underscores an art director's crucial role in shaping the look of a film and also tracks the changes in production design from the studio era through location shooting to today's use of high-tech special effects.
Hollywood's High Noon
Thomas Cripps
Author : Thomas Cripps
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 080185315X
Hollywood's High Noon by Thomas Cripps Pdf
A lively narrative history of Hollywood's classical age. Over the last twenty-five years, the field of cinema studies has offered a dramatic reassessment of the history of film in general and of Hollywood in particular. Writers have drawn on the methodologies of a number of disciplines—literary criticism, sociology, psychology, women's studies, and minority and gay studies—to deepen our understanding of motion pictures, the film industry, and movie theater audiences. In Hollywood's High Noon, noted film historian Thomas Cripps offers a lively narrative history of Hollywood's classical age that brings the insights of recent scholarship to students and general readers. From its origin during the First World War to the beginning of its decline in the 1950s, Cripps writes, Hollywood operated as did other American industries: movies were created by a rational production system, regulated by both government and privately organized interests, and subject to the whims of a fickle marketplace. Yet these films did offer consumers something unique: in darkened movie palaces across the country,audiences projected themselves—their hopes and ideas—onto silver screens, profoundly mediating their reception of Hollywood's flickering images. Beginning with turn-of-the-century moving-picture pioneer Thomas Edison, Cripps traces the invention of Hollywood and the development of the studio system. He explores the movie-going experience, the struggle for social control over the movies through censorship, the impact of sound on the style and content of films, alternatives to Hollywood's oligopoly including "race" films and documentaries, the paradoxical predictability and subversive creativity of genre pictures, and Hollywood's self-proclaimed "shining moment" during the Second World War. Cripps concludes with a discussion of the collapse of the studio system after the war, due in equal parts to suburbanization, the emergence of television, and government anti-trust action.
The First Lady of Hollywood
Samantha Barbas
Author : Samantha Barbas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520940245
The First Lady of Hollywood by Samantha Barbas Pdf
Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with her employer, William Randolph Hearst, and her complex and turbulent relationships with such noted stars, directors, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. Mayer, Ronald Reagan, and Frank Sinatra—as well as her rival columnists Hedda Hopper and Walter Winchell. Loved by fans for her "just folks," small-town image, Parsons became notorious within the film industry for her involvement in the suppression of the 1941 film Citizen Kane and her use of blackmail in the service of Hearst's political and personal agendas. As she traces Parsons's life and career, Samantha Barbas situates Parsons's experiences in the broader trajectory of Hollywood history, charting the rise of the star system and the complex interactions of publicity, journalism, and movie-making. Engagingly written and thoroughly researched, The First Lady of Hollywood is both an engrossing chronicle of one of the most powerful women in American journalism and film and a penetrating analysis of celebrity culture and Hollywood power politics.
Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s
Gene Scott Freese
Author : Gene Scott Freese
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476614700
Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s by Gene Scott Freese Pdf
This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered encompasses the silent comedy days of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, the early westerns of Tom Mix and John Wayne, the swashbucklers of Douglas Fairbanks, Errol Flynn, and Burt Lancaster, the costume epics of Charlton Heston and Kirk Douglas, and the action films of Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, and Charles Bronson. Without stuntmen and women working behind the scenes the films of these action superstars would not have been as successful. Now fantastic athletes and leading stunt creators such as Yakima Canutt, Richard Talmadge, Harvey Parry, Allen Pomeroy, Dave Sharpe, Jock Mahoney, Chuck Roberson, Polly Burson, Bob Morgan, Loren Janes, Dean Smith, Hal Needham, Martha Crawford, Ronnie Rondell, Terry Leonard, and Bob Minor are given their proper due. Each entry covers the performer's athletic background, military service, actors doubled, noteworthy stunts, and a rundown of his or her best known screen credits.
Hollywood Enigma
Carl Rollyson
Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604735673
Hollywood Enigma by Carl Rollyson Pdf
The story of Dana Andrews (1909-1992)
Hollywood Hypocrites
Jason Mattera
Author : Jason Mattera
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451625622
Hollywood Hypocrites by Jason Mattera Pdf
Draws on the author's experiences as an "ambush interview" radio host to confront inconsistencies in the liberal views of leading Hollywood celebrities who support President Obama, from Michael Moore to Angelina Jolie.
The Hollywood Posse
Diana Serra Cary
Author : Diana Serra Cary
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0806128356
The Hollywood Posse by Diana Serra Cary Pdf
After 1912, when the great cattle empires began to crumble, hundreds of seasoned cowboys found themselves jobless. A handful of discarded horsemen, however, stumbled upon an entirely new frontier-Hollywood. In a rare insider’s view, Diana Serra Cary tells the story of these cowboys, who survived for another fifty years as riders, stuntmen, and doubles for the stars. Filled with humorous anecdotes, The Hollywood Posse reveals the full story of the cowboys’ long and bitter feud with autocratic director Cecil B. De Mille; their relationships with the great Western stars-from the flamboyant Tom Mix to the durable John Wayne; and above all, their touching loyalty, code of honor, and devotion to each other.
When Women Wrote Hollywood
Rosanne Welch
Author : Rosanne Welch
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476668871
When Women Wrote Hollywood by Rosanne Welch Pdf
This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.
Hollywood and the Foreign Touch
Harry Waldman
Author : Harry Waldman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810831929
Hollywood and the Foreign Touch by Harry Waldman Pdf
While a few select foreign filmmakers have been widely recognized for their contributions to Hollywood, scores more have gone largely unrecognized. Arranged alphabetically, this volume provides detailed information on the filmmakers and their films.
The Hollywood Kid
Oscar Martinez,Juan Martinez
Author : Oscar Martinez,Juan Martinez
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786634924
The Hollywood Kid by Oscar Martinez,Juan Martinez Pdf
The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country’s civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world’s deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward. The Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan José Martínez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing—a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members—until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.
