Author: Tim Foley Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 0486826783 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 68
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Rendered in a realistic woodcut style, 31 striking illustrations celebrate the biggest Western stars of the silver screen and television. Ready-to-color portraits include John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Clint Eastwood, James Stewart, Randolph Scott, Jack Palance, Gene Autry, Barbara Stanwyck, Chuck Connors, Cleavon Little, James Arness, and many others. Includes brief bios and fun facts. Pages are perforated and printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Specially designed for experienced colorists, Western Screen Legends and other Creative Haven® adult coloring books offer an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment. Each title is also an effective and fun-filled way to relax and reduce stress.
Author: Stanley Newman Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games ISBN: 0812934717 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 114
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·50 brand-new puzzles about 50 screen legends–from Katharine Hepburn, who won her first Academy Award in 1933, to Denzel Washington, who won his second in 2002 ·A bit of dialogue and fascinating factoids about each puzzle’s subject ·Hundreds of movie-related clues
Author: Anthony Slide Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1604734140 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 292
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The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture. Anthony Slide's Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine provides the definitive history of this artifact. It charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay first appeared in 1911 to its decline into provocative headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward. Slide discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived in the twentieth century, and they presented the history of an industry in a unique, sometimes accurate, and always entertaining style. This major cultural history includes a new interview with 1970s media personality Rona Barrett, as well as original commentary from a dozen editors and writers. Also included is a chapter on contributions to the fan magazines from well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser and e. e. cummings. The book is enhanced by an appendix documenting some 268 American fan magazines and includes detailed publication histories.
Author: Jane Lenz Elder Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1604735864 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 334
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Alice Faye's sweet demeanor, sultry glances, and velvety voice were her signatures. Her haunting rendition of “You'll Never Know” has never been surpassed by any other singer. Fans adored her in such films as Alexander's Ragtime Band, Rose of Washington Square, Tin Pan Alley, Week-End in Havana, and Hello, Frisco, Hello. In the 1930s and 1940s she reigned as queen of 20th Century Fox musicals. She co-starred with such legends as Shirley Temple, Tyrone Power, Carmen Miranda, and Don Ameche and was voted the number-one box-office attraction of 1940, placing ahead of Bette Davis and Myrna Loy. To a select cult, she remains a beloved star. In 1945 at the pinnacle of her career she chose to walk out on her Fox contract. This remarkable episode is unlike any other in the heyday of the big-studio system. Her daring departure from films left Fox mogul Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the movie industry flabbergasted. For years she had skirmished with him over her roles, her health, and her private life. His heavy-handed film editing of her fine work in Otto Preminger's drama Fallen Angel, a role she had fought for, relegated Faye to the shadows so that Zanuck could showcase the younger Linda Darnell. After leaving Fox, Faye (1915–1998) devoted herself to her marriage to radio star Phil Harris, to motherhood, and to a second career on radio in the Phil Harris–Alice Faye Show, broadcast for eight years. She happily gave up films in favor of the independence and self-esteem that she discovered in private life. She willingly freed herself of the “star-treatment” that debilitated so many of her contemporaries. In the 1980s she emerged as a spokeswoman for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, touring America to encourage senior citizens to make their lives more meaningful and vital. Before Betty Grable, before Marilyn Monroe—Alice Faye was first in the lineup of 20th Century Fox blondes. This book captures her special essence, her work in film, radio, and popular music, and indeed her graceful survival beyond the silver screen.
Author: J. Bak Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137308478 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 352
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This Literary Life draws extensively from the playwright's correspondences, notebooks, and archival papers to offer an original angle to the discussion of Williams's life and work, and the times and circumstances that helped produce it.
Author: Melinda Corey Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 616
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An in-depth resource on the art of filmmaking looks at the history of film, along with information on actors, designers, directors, writers, cinematographers, sound effects, and editors.
Author: Jane O'Connor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317518942 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 299
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The twenty-first century has seen an explosion in the ways and means in which children can become part of celebrity culture. With the rise in popularity of reality TV, child beauty pageants, talent shows, and social media platforms, as well as more established routes to fame through TV, cinema, theatre and music, the number of children establishing a presence in public life continues to proliferate. Childhood and Celebrity brings together international scholarly writing and research about famous children, and representations of childhood, from a range of disciplines including Childhood Studies, Celebrity Studies, Cultural Studies and Film Studies in order to open up a theoretical space in which to explore and understand the complex relationship between contemporary childhood and celebrity culture. This unique collection includes detailed case studies of specific child performers such as McCaulay Culkin and Miley Cyrus, histories of child stars in the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood, analyses of representations of children in film and discussions of children as media creators and producers. Key themes of transgression, gender, ‘coming of age’, childhood innocence and children’s rights recur in the chapters and present a compelling argument for the emergence of the field of Childhood and Celebrity as an area of study in its own right.
Author: Kym Douglas Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9780452289048 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 212
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Presents a collection of diet, weight loss, and fitness tips from some of Hollywood's most famous celebrities, including Jessica Alba, Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Aniston, and Halle Berry.
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