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Abstract/Sommario: Here is the colorful, candid, and delightfully entertaining biography of one of Hollywood's most dynamic screenwriters and directors, Billy Wilder. Capturing the unorthodox life-style and rebellious spirit of his subject, Maurice Zolotow presents a richly anecdotal account of the man who, from an inauspicious start in Germany as a paid escort and dancing partner, rose to become the very heart and soul of the film industry.

Abstract/Sommario: The film Western has had many great stars, from Tom Mix to John Wayne to Clint Eastwood, but William S. Hart (1865-1946) is still regarded as probably the most important Western star ever. He was the box office rival of such favorites as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks; he did more than anyone else to make the adult, authentic Western come into being; and he created, in his films, the mythic Western hero that has come to be a part of our public consciousness.

Abstract/Sommario: With compassion and clarity, this book traces the rise and fall of David Wark Griffith. It presents a fully-faceted portrait of a theatrical personality who lived by grandiloquent gestures and practiced exaggerated southern gentility. Henderson traces Griffith's Confederate background; describes his early years on the stage as an actor and aspiring playwright; and then details his film career from the first directorial assignments at Biograph Films, where he made more than four hundred ...; [Leggi tutto...] With compassion and clarity, this book traces the rise and fall of David Wark Griffith. It presents a fully-faceted portrait of a theatrical personality who lived by grandiloquent gestures and practiced exaggerated southern gentility. Henderson traces Griffith's Confederate background; describes his early years on the stage as an actor and aspiring playwright; and then details his film career from the first directorial assignments at Biograph Films, where he made more than four hundred one-and-two-reel movies in five years, to the pathetic final years on the fringes of Hollywood.

Abstract/Sommario: One of the world's leading film theorists, Rudolf Arnheim has been well known to readers of English since the publication of his classic Film as Art in 1957. This is the first English translation of another of his important books, Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film, which collects both film reviews and theoretical essays, most of them written between 1925 and 1940.

Abstract/Sommario: This book take us back to that remarkable decade and the fabulous faces that lit up American (and foreign) movie screens. This collection is a tribute to the talent and skill of the studio photographers, whose mastery of camera techniques, film, pose and lighting brought aut the best in the stars who sat for their cameras.

Abstract/Sommario: Jean Harlow was an American actress and sex symbol. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, whose image in the public eye has endured. Harlow was first signed by business magnate Howard Hughes, who directed her first major role in Hell's Angels (1930). After a series of critically unsuccessful films, and Hughes's losing interest in her career, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought out Harlow's contract in 1932 and cast her ...; [Leggi tutto...] Jean Harlow was an American actress and sex symbol. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood, whose image in the public eye has endured. Harlow was first signed by business magnate Howard Hughes, who directed her first major role in Hell's Angels (1930). After a series of critically unsuccessful films, and Hughes's losing interest in her career, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought out Harlow's contract in 1932 and cast her in leading roles in a string of hits built on her comedic talent: Red-Headed Woman (1932), Red Dust (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Reckless (1935) and Suzy (1936).