Author: James FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage proposals
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Girl in Every Port
Author: James FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage proposals
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Girl in Every Port
Author: Forrest AdditonA Girl in Every Port
Author: Donald R. MorrisA Girl in Every Port
Author: Howard Hawks
Author: Todd McCarthyPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802196403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors. Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, and others, but Hawks’s greatest creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic Monthly noted, “Todd McCarthy. . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work.” “A fluent biography of the great director, a frequently rotten guy but one whose artistic independence and standards of film morality never failed.” —The New York Times Book Review “Hawks’s life, until now rather an enigma, has been put into focus and made one with his art in Todd McCarthy’s wise and funny Howard Hawks.” —The Wall Street Journal “Excellent. . . . A respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately smartass look at Hollywood’s most versatile director.” —Newsweek
The Five Sedgwicks
Author: Michael ZmudaPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786496681
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood. Their work took them from vaudeville to silent film, through the studio era and into the Golden Age of television. By the late 1920s the Sedgwick siblings were well-known motion picture personalities: Edward was satirized by actor Harry Gribbon as an enthusiastic comedy director in King Vidor's 1928 silent comedy hit Show People; Josie was a star of Western films and was presented the honorific title of "Queen of the Roundup"; Universal Films promoted Eileen as their "Queen of the Serial." This book details the family's extensive contributions to the entertainment industry.
A Girl in Every Port
Author: William McClellanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Howard Hawks
Author: Robin WoodPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338372
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A significant and contemporary study of director Howard Hawks by influential film critic Robin Wood, reprinted with a new introduction.
A Girl in Every Port, and Other Poems
Author: Forrest AdditonMilitary Comedy Films
Author: Hal EricksonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786492678
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military comedy film has been one of Hollywood's most durable genres. This generously illustrated history examines over 225 Army, Navy and Marine-related comedies produced between 1918 and 2009, including the abundance of laughspinners released during World War II in the wake of Abbott and Costello's phenomenally successful Buck Privates (1941), and the many lighthearted service films of the immediate postwar era, among them Mister Roberts (1955) and No Time for Sergeants (1958). Also included are discussions of such subgenres as silent films (The General), military-academy farces (Brother Rat), women in uniform (Private Benjamin), misfits making good (Stripes), anti-war comedies (MASH), and fact-based films (The Men Who Stare at Goats). A closing filmography is included in this richly detailed volume.