Author: Richard Schickel
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781862050235
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This is an analysis of Cagney's screen characters and career. It recounts how he began his Hollywood career, and claims that he was the movies' symbol of the aspirations of America's urban second generation. Himself the child of immigrants, Cagney represented the spirit they believed could lift them out of the ghetto to power and prosperity. The drama of his first films, mostly comedies, revolved around the energetic assertion of his sprightly self in a world that was far from sprightly - Depression America.
James Cagney
Author: Richard Schickel
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781862050235
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This is an analysis of Cagney's screen characters and career. It recounts how he began his Hollywood career, and claims that he was the movies' symbol of the aspirations of America's urban second generation. Himself the child of immigrants, Cagney represented the spirit they believed could lift them out of the ghetto to power and prosperity. The drama of his first films, mostly comedies, revolved around the energetic assertion of his sprightly self in a world that was far from sprightly - Depression America.
Publisher: Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN: 9781862050235
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This is an analysis of Cagney's screen characters and career. It recounts how he began his Hollywood career, and claims that he was the movies' symbol of the aspirations of America's urban second generation. Himself the child of immigrants, Cagney represented the spirit they believed could lift them out of the ghetto to power and prosperity. The drama of his first films, mostly comedies, revolved around the energetic assertion of his sprightly self in a world that was far from sprightly - Depression America.
The Hollywood Book of Love
Author: James Robert Parish
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Hollywood Love and Romance is an entertaining survey of love, romance, and marriage as depicted in the movies. Featuring films from film's silent era through the hits of today, it's an exhaustive, entertaining tome sure to satisfy any film buff interested in love and romance and film. Written in the same dry tone that's made Parish's previous film books, like The Hollywood Book of Death and Hollywood Bad Boys, so successful, Hollywood Love and Romance includes movies grouped in chapters on: Love at First Sight (Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Titanic); First Love (Dirty Dancing, Splendor in the Grass); Doomed to Failure (Blond Venus, Mystic Pizza, The Apartment); Surviving the Family (Guess Who's Coming to Dinne?, My Big Fat Greek Wedding); True Love (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ghost, The Philadelphia Story); Love and Death (Camille, Dark Victory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Story); Bad Marriage (War of the Roses, Ruthless People); The Affair (An Affair to Remember, Anna Karenina); Femme Fatale/Bad Man (Of Human Bondage, Basic Instinct); Historical Romance (Elizabeth, Dr. Zhivago, Gone with the Wind); Rebound (40 Days and 40 Nights, Moonstuck, An Unmarried Woman); Codependency (Who's Af
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Hollywood Love and Romance is an entertaining survey of love, romance, and marriage as depicted in the movies. Featuring films from film's silent era through the hits of today, it's an exhaustive, entertaining tome sure to satisfy any film buff interested in love and romance and film. Written in the same dry tone that's made Parish's previous film books, like The Hollywood Book of Death and Hollywood Bad Boys, so successful, Hollywood Love and Romance includes movies grouped in chapters on: Love at First Sight (Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Titanic); First Love (Dirty Dancing, Splendor in the Grass); Doomed to Failure (Blond Venus, Mystic Pizza, The Apartment); Surviving the Family (Guess Who's Coming to Dinne?, My Big Fat Greek Wedding); True Love (Breakfast at Tiffany's, Ghost, The Philadelphia Story); Love and Death (Camille, Dark Victory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Love Story); Bad Marriage (War of the Roses, Ruthless People); The Affair (An Affair to Remember, Anna Karenina); Femme Fatale/Bad Man (Of Human Bondage, Basic Instinct); Historical Romance (Elizabeth, Dr. Zhivago, Gone with the Wind); Rebound (40 Days and 40 Nights, Moonstuck, An Unmarried Woman); Codependency (Who's Af
Prime Time
Author: Jane Fonda
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 1400066972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Oscar-winning actress, fitness expert and political activist outlines a roadmap for seniors who are experiencing unprecedented rates of longevity, sharing practical advice on everything from fitness and sexuality to coming to terms with past mistakes and embracing a spiritual life.
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN: 1400066972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Oscar-winning actress, fitness expert and political activist outlines a roadmap for seniors who are experiencing unprecedented rates of longevity, sharing practical advice on everything from fitness and sexuality to coming to terms with past mistakes and embracing a spiritual life.
Laughs, Luck . . . and Lucy
Author: Jess Oppenheimer
Publisher: Gregg Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9780815605843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The man Lucille Ball called the brains of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favourite the world over.
Publisher: Gregg Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9780815605843
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The man Lucille Ball called the brains of I Love Lucy gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium. Forty-five years after its debut, it remains a favourite the world over.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
Book Description
Circumstantial Evidence
Author: Mrs. Mary Etta Stickney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Home Sweet Home
Author: April Smith
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101872373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial, and, ultimately, murder. In the spring of 1950, Calvin and Betsy Kusek load their family in the station wagon and head west from New York City to relocate to a close-knit town in South Dakota. They settle on a ranch and begin a life in their new state. Betsy becomes a visiting nurse, befriending a quirky assortment of rural characters, and Cal jumps at the chance to serve his community when a seat opens up in the state legislature. Their children, Jo and Lance, grow up caring for animals and riding rodeo. But things change when Cal runs for the U.S. Senate. The FBI investigates Betsy, and a youthful dalliance with the Communist Party surfaces to haunt the Kuseks. Communist hysteria takes over their small town, inflamed by Cal’s political enemies. Driven by fear and hate, their neighbors turn on them. Decades later tragedy again strikes the family as the ghosts of their past come back to haunt them.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101872373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
From the widely praised author of the FBI Special Agent Ana Grey series and A Star for Mrs. Blake, this riveting epic drama follows the Kusek family from New York City to America's heartland, where they are caught up in the panic of McCarthyism, a smear campaign, a sensational trial, and, ultimately, murder. In the spring of 1950, Calvin and Betsy Kusek load their family in the station wagon and head west from New York City to relocate to a close-knit town in South Dakota. They settle on a ranch and begin a life in their new state. Betsy becomes a visiting nurse, befriending a quirky assortment of rural characters, and Cal jumps at the chance to serve his community when a seat opens up in the state legislature. Their children, Jo and Lance, grow up caring for animals and riding rodeo. But things change when Cal runs for the U.S. Senate. The FBI investigates Betsy, and a youthful dalliance with the Communist Party surfaces to haunt the Kuseks. Communist hysteria takes over their small town, inflamed by Cal’s political enemies. Driven by fear and hate, their neighbors turn on them. Decades later tragedy again strikes the family as the ghosts of their past come back to haunt them.
Good Morning, Killer
Author: April Smith
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307947602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
FBI Special Agent Ana Grey returns in this psychologically acute, completely and unstoppably suspenseful thriller from April Smith. A fifteen-year-old girl has been abducted and Ana Grey is sent to investigate. When the girl reappears, completely traumatized, Ana realises she is far too emotionally invested in the case. She can no longer separate her own life from the victim's. And if the situation wasn't already sufficiently disturbing, her partner on the investigation is Andrew Berringer, her on-again, off-again lover. As her personal and professional lives converge, Ana reaches a breaking point. She no longer knows who she can trust, no even Berringer, and in a moment of anger fires her gun. Suddenly more than just the case is on the line--it's her whole career.
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0307947602
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
FBI Special Agent Ana Grey returns in this psychologically acute, completely and unstoppably suspenseful thriller from April Smith. A fifteen-year-old girl has been abducted and Ana Grey is sent to investigate. When the girl reappears, completely traumatized, Ana realises she is far too emotionally invested in the case. She can no longer separate her own life from the victim's. And if the situation wasn't already sufficiently disturbing, her partner on the investigation is Andrew Berringer, her on-again, off-again lover. As her personal and professional lives converge, Ana reaches a breaking point. She no longer knows who she can trust, no even Berringer, and in a moment of anger fires her gun. Suddenly more than just the case is on the line--it's her whole career.
San José Studies
All the World's a Stage
Author: Dennis Weaver
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781571742872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Actor Dennis Weaver, star of television's "McCloud," and host of the Western Channel, shares the story of his childhood and military years, his acting career, and his later life activities as a spokesperson for social and environmental concerns.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781571742872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Actor Dennis Weaver, star of television's "McCloud," and host of the Western Channel, shares the story of his childhood and military years, his acting career, and his later life activities as a spokesperson for social and environmental concerns.