Author: Tony Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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An account of the life and career of actor Joel McCrea. Contains over 200 photos and a complete filmography.

Author: Robert Nott
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476613729
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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In the world of Western films, Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Audie Murphy have frequently been overlooked in favor of names like Roy Rogers and John Wayne. Yet these three actors played a crucial role in the changing environment of the post-World War II Western, and, in the process, made many excellent middle-budget films that are still a pleasure to watch. This account of these three Western stars' careers begins in 1946, when Scott and McCrea committed themselves to the Western roles they would play for nearly twenty years. Murphy, who also joined them in 1946, would continue his Western career for a few years after his cohorts rode into the film sunset. Arranged chronologically, and balanced among the three actors, the text concludes with Audie Murphy's last Western in 1967. Covering both the personal and professional lives of these three Hollywood cowboys, the book provides both their stories and the story of a Hollywood whose attitude toward the Western was in a time of transition and transformation. The text is complemented by 60 photographs and a filmography for each of the three.

Author: David Williams
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505209884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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No film or television program would be complete without co-stars and supporting players. This book pays homage to those over 1,000 individuals who acted with Joel McCrea in his 88 films and 26 television episodes from 1927 through 1976. I hope you enjoy learning more about those hard working men, women, and children who were honored to work with this wonderful actor and true American on the big and small screen. DAW

Author: Peter Kranzpiller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783890896700
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : de
Pages : 59

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Author: Rocky Lang
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683356667
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Rare correspondence from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and other Hollywood luminaries from the silent film era to the 1970s. Letters from Hollywood reproduces in full color scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the most notable and talented film industry names of all time—from the silent era to the golden age, and up through the pre-email days of the 1970s. Culled from libraries, archives, and personal collections, the 135 letters, memos, and telegrams are organized chronologically and are annotated by the authors to provide backstories and further context. While each piece reveals a specific moment in time, taken together, the letters convey a bigger picture of Hollywood history. Contributors include celebrities like Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, and Jane Fonda. This is the gift book of the season for fans of classic Hollywood. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovitch. “This is, quite simply, one of the finest books I’ve ever read about Hollywood.” —Leonard Maltin

Author: Paula Cantu
Publisher: Emereo Publishing
ISBN: 9781488560071
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The new best thing Joel McCrea. This book is your ultimate resource for Joel McCrea. Here you will find the most up-to-date 166 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Joel McCrea's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Wyatt Earp - Depiction of Old West lawmen, The Lady Eve - Production, They Shall Have Music, South of St. Louis, Mustang Country, Girls About Town (film) - Cast, Espionage Agent - Cast, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum - Western Heritage Awards, Gary Cooper - Career, Moonlight Serenade - Film, Botany Bay (film) - Production, 1951 in film - Notable films released in 1951, Motion Picture Hospital - Famous residents, 1935 in film - Notable films released in 1935, Youth Takes a Fling - Cast, Black and Tan (film) - Dudley Murphy, High Sierra (film) - Adaptations, Pre-Code Hollywood - Exotic adventure films, The Great Man's Lady - Plot, Ride the High Country - Plot, Stars in My Crown (film) - Cast, Rafter Romance - Production, Four Star Television - Four Star Playhouse, These Three - Production, Jock Gaynor, 1936 in film - A-C, Adventure in Manhattan - Plot, The Richest Girl in the World (1934 film), Bat Masterson - Onscreen, in film, Cattle Empire - Cast, Primrose Path (film) - Cast, The Most Dangerous Game (film), The More the Merrier, 1947 in film - Notable films released in 1947, Frenchie, Jean Harlow - Early life, Robert Dudley (actor) - Career, The Unseen (1945 film), The Lost Squadron - Plot, Reaching for the Sun - Reviewhttp: //movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res9A01E3D7143AE33BBC4053DFB366838A659EDE, and much more...

Author: Scott Eyman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501102192
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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“[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography” (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, two Hollywood legends who maintained a close relationship that endured all of life’s twists and turns. Henry Fonda and James Stewart were two of the biggest stars in Hollywood for forty years, but they became friends when they were unknown. They roomed together as stage actors in New York, and when they began making films in Hollywood, they were roommates again. Between them they made such classic films as The Grapes of Wrath, Mister Roberts, Twelve Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, and Rear Window. They got along famously, with a shared interest in elaborate practical jokes and model airplanes, among other things. But their friendship also endured despite their differences: Fonda was a liberal Democrat, Stewart a conservative Republican. Fonda was a ladies’ man who was married five times; Stewart remained married to the same woman for forty-five years. Both men volunteered during World War II and were decorated for their service. When Stewart returned home, still unmarried, he once again moved in with Fonda, his wife, and his two children, Jane and Peter, who knew him as Uncle Jimmy. For his “breezy, entertaining” (Publishers Weekly) Hank and Jim, biographer and film historian Scott Eyman spoke with Fonda’s widow and children as well as three of Stewart’s children, plus actors and directors who had worked with the men—in addition to doing extensive archival research to get the full details of their time together. This is not just another Hollywood story, but “a fascinating…richly documented biography” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of an extraordinary friendship that lasted through war, marriages, children, careers, and everything else.

Author: Joel Grey
Publisher: Flatiron Books
ISBN: 1250057248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children’s theater and then moving to the main stage. He was hooked, and his seven decades long career charts the evolution of American entertainment - from Vaudeville performances with his father, Mickey Katz to the seedy gangster filled nightclubs of the forties, the bright lights of Broadway and dizzying glamour of Hollywood, to juggernaut musicals like Cabaret, Chicago, and Wicked. Master of Ceremonies is a memoir of a life lived in and out of the limelight, but it is also the story of the man behind the stage makeup. Coming of age in a time when being yourself tended to be not only difficult but also dangerous, Joel has to act both on and off the stage. He spends his high school years sleeping with the girls-next-door while carrying on a scandalous affair with an older man. Romances with to-die-for Vegas Showgirls are balanced with late night liaisons with like-minded guys, until finally Joel falls in love and marries a talented and beautiful woman, starts a family, and has a pretty much picture perfect life. But 24 years later when the marriage dissolves, Joel has to once again find his place in a world that has radically changed. Drawing back the curtain on a career filled with show-stopping numbers, larger-than-life stars and even singing in the shower with Bjork, Master of Ceremonies is also a portrait of an artist coming to terms with his evolving identity. When an actor plays a character, he has to find out what makes them who they are; their needs, dreams, and fears. It’s a difficult thing to do, but sometimes the hardest role in an actor’s life is that of himself. Deftly capturing the joy of performing as well as the pain and secrets of an era we have only just started to leave behind, Joel’s story is one of love, loss, hard-won honesty, redemption, and success.

Author: Tony Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781484108505
Category : Motion picture actors and actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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It is doubtful if any film actor has ever summed up a long career more modestly, more succinctly or more accurately than Joel McCrea: "I did the best I could without trying too hard." In view of his having starred in eighty films over a thirty-year period during what is generally regarded as Hollywood's Golden Age, it is a remarkably modest summation. His is an extraordinary filmography, one that has seldom been given much attention, possibly because McCrea himself was a man who never sought much attention. If it was his wish to avoid attention, he was successful because he is the most underrated of all the male stars of that Golden Age. His contemporaries-Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, James Stewart, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart-have all been well assessed. Hopefully, this biographical essay and comprehensive filmography by author and film historian Tony Thomas will serve to remind us of the significant contributions of Joel McCrea.

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Languages : en
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