Author: Howard TeichmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
George S. Kaufman: An intimate Portrait
Author: Howard TeichmannGeorge S. Kaufman and His Friends
Author: Scott MeredithPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Merrily We Roll Along
Author: Moss HartPublisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9780464049449
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Merrily We Roll Along, although praised by critics, was a failure on Broadway in 1934 but has since garnered almost cult classic status. It concerns a man who has lost the idealistic values of his youth. Its innovative structure presents the story in reverse order, with the character regressing from a mournful adult to a young man whose future is filled with promise.
Dulcy
Author: George Simon KaufmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Promptbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
You Can't Take it with You
Author: Moss HartPublisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822212874
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Alice Sycamore, a young woman from a happy, but very eccentric family, has second thoughts about her relationship with her wealthy boss's son, Tony, after a meeting between the two families goes terribly wrong.
Of Thee I Sing
Author: George GershwinPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573680373
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Royal Family
Author: Edna FerberPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573614941
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Stage Door
Author: Edna FerberPublisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822210696
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young actors and actresses, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Act One
Author: Moss HartPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443435317
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Act One is the autobiography of Moss Hart, an American playwright and theatre director. Born into impoverished circumstances—his father was often unemployed—Hart left school at age twelve for a series of odd jobs that included being an entertainment director at a Catskills summer resort. Hart’s big break came in 1930 with the Broadway hit Once in a Lifetime, written with George Kaufman. The two would collaborate again on You Can’t Take It With You (1936) and The Man Who Came To Dinner (1939). You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1937, and the 1938 film version, directed by Frank Capra, won Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Director. Act One was adapted for a 1963 film starring George Hamilton, and for a 2014 stage production starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.
Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
Author: Edward SorelPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631490249
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A hilarious send-up of sex, scandal, and the Golden Age of Hollywood by legendary cartoonist Edward Sorel. In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel tore away layer after layer of linoleum from the floor of his $97-a-month Manhattan apartment until he discovered a hidden treasure: issues of the New York Daily News and Daily Mirror from 1936, each ablaze with a scandalous child custody trial taking place in Hollywood starring the actress Mary Astor—and the journal in which she detailed her numerous affairs. Thus began a half-century obsession that reached its peak in Mary Astor’s Purple Diary, “a thoroughly charming” (New York Times Book Review, front-page review) account of the scandal in which Sorel narrates and illustrates the travails of the Oscar-winning actress alongside his own personal story of discovering an unlikely muse. Now in a stunning paperback, featuring more than sixty ribald and rapturous original illustrations, Mary Astor’s Purple Diary is the life’s masterpiece of one of America’s greatest illustrators.