170 Years of Show Business
Author: Kate Mostel
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
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Author: Kate Mostel
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Peter Neil Isaacs collection.
Author: Rita Morley Harvey
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780809320226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of the "glamour boy" of the trade union movement in broadcasting. Heller and his actor colleagues Philip Loeb, Sam Jaffe, and Albert Dekker were instrumental in the formation and growth of the American Federation of Radio Artists and its later incarnation, the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. They encountered resistance from Senator Joseph McCarthy and the radical right. Includes bandw photos. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Philip Lambert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-12-10
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0199781036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is the first complete book about these creative figures, one of Broadway's most important songwriting teams. The book draws from personal interviews with Bock and Harnick themselves to offer an in-depth exploration their shows, including Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, and Fiorello!, and their greater place in musical theater history.
Author: Ellen Schrecker
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 601
ISBN-13: 0691048703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers an analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon, tracing the machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion.
Author: Nick Thomas
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0786488077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of interviews, all conducted by the author, focuses on the children of Hollywood legends. Each child (and, in one case, grandchild) talks about the joys and difficulties of growing up in the shadow of the Hollywood spotlight. While some were significantly influenced by their famous parents and chose a career in entertainment, others felt no attraction toward the glamour of Tinseltown fame. Among the interviewees are the offspring of such major stars as Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell, as well as such prominent supporting players as Jack Elam, Gene Lockhart, Billy Barty and Jesse White. The collection also includes a list of books and/or websites published by the children of the actors featured.
Author: Keith Garebian
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-04-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0199830193
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A handy and engaging chronicle, this book is the most detailed production history to date of the original Broadway version of Cabaret, showing how the show evolved from Christopher Isherwood's Berlin stories, into John van Druten's stage play, a British film adaptation, and then the Broadway musical, conceived and directed by Harold Prince as an early concept musical. With nearly 40 illustrations, full cast credits, and a bibliography, The Making of Cabaret will appeal to musical theatre aficionados, theatre specialists, and students and performers of musical theatre.
Author: Arthur Sainer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780879100964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arthur Sainer's research, particularly among members of the Mostel family, has been prodigious and the facts of Zero's life are here. But the author does not hesitate to digress when there is a good story to tell.
Author: David Bruce
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 0557050375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph Litvak
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009-11-25
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0822390841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.