The Filmgoer's Companion

The Filmgoer's Companion PDF Author: Leslie Halliwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780380401215
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 852

Book Description
Oorspr. dr. 1965.- Ook aanwezig: 2nd ed. (rev. and enl.). London : Macgibbon & Kee, 1967. 847 p. - 3rd ed. rev. and expanded. New York : Avon, 1971. 1072 p. - (Equinox books). - 3rd ed.; repr. London : Paladin, 1972. - 1072 p. - 9th ed.;London [etc.] : Grafton, cop. 1988. - 10th ed.; ed. by John Walker. - London : HarperCollins, cop. 1993. - 834 p. - ISBN O-586-09174-2 pbk. - 14th ed., getiteld: Halliwell's who is who in the movies - ed. by John Walker. - London : HarperCollins, 2001. - 593 p. - ISBN 0-00-257214-1).

Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion

Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion PDF Author: Leslie Halliwell
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1184

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Gunmen and Gangsters

Gunmen and Gangsters PDF Author: Michael Schlossheimer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476635463
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many people to be the most exciting personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. The public was hungry for press coverage about these mysterious and dangerous men. Most reports about them were sketchy, as the reporters did not want to get on the bad side of the racket bosses. Hollywood's response to the public's fascination was to portray the lives of gangsters on the movie screen, using actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Perhaps surprisingly, these men received not-so-favorable reviews from the Academy Award voters, and as their popularity grew with the public, censorship dictated other actors be brought in to play the roles. That's what this book is about--the personal and professional lives of William Bendix, Charles Bickford, Ward Bond, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Paul Douglas, William Gargan, Barton MacLane, and Lloyd Nolan, second-string actors who replaced the big names and did a memorable job. A filmography is supplied for each actor.

The filmgoer's companion

The filmgoer's companion PDF Author: Leslie Halliwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Screening Scripture

Screening Scripture PDF Author: George Aichele
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563383540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
An intertextual examination of popular films and scripture.

Films and Filming

Films and Filming PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 1214

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Deep Are the Roots

Deep Are the Roots PDF Author: Stephen Bourne
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750999101
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to play Shakespeare's Othello in the United Kingdom, and ending in 1975 with the success of Britain's first Black-led theatre company. In addition to providing a long-overdue critique of Laurence Olivier's Othello, Bourne has unearthed the forgotten story of Paul Molyneaux, a Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. The twentieth-century trailblazers include Paul Robeson, Florence Mills, Elisabeth Welch, Edric Connor and Pearl Connor-Mogotsi. There are chapters about the groundbreaking work of playwrights at the Royal Court, the first Black drama school students, pioneering theatre companies and three influential dramatists of the 1970s: Mustapha Matura, Michael Abbensetts and Alfred Fagon. Drawing on interviews with leading lights, here is everything you need to know about the trailblazers of Black theatre in Britain and their profound influence on the culture of today.

Mercedes McCambridge

Mercedes McCambridge PDF Author: Ron Lackmann
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786483822
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Book Description
American actress Mercedes McCambridge is an Academy Award-winning star of radio, television, film, and the stage, active in all four entertainment mediums between 1936 and 1991. Publicly, she was active in politics, a lecturer at several colleges, and an important activist in the fight against alcoholism; privately, she suffered from divorces, miscarriages, suicide attempts, the death of her only child, and a hard-won battle with her own alcoholism. From roles on such radio shows as Lights Out! at 19 to her starring role in Neil Simon's play Lost in Yonkers at 75, this biography both reveals her personal life and career and gives insight into an important period of show business history. Part I is a full biography from McCambridge's birth in Illinois in 1916 to her 1998 appearance at the Academy Awards. Part II gives McCambridge's radio, television, film, and theatre performances, each entry listing the name of the show, name of the character, dates, other performers, directors, and an indication of which were sustained short- or long-running roles and which single performances on a radio or television series. Research is drawn from books, periodicals, and personal interviews with McCambridge's peers.

A Talent for Living

A Talent for Living PDF Author: Barbara L. Bellows
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807157341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time - Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century.".

Jet

Jet PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.