Mother Goddam
Author: Whitney Stine
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Published: 1957
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of Hollywood's famous actresses offers a running commentary of personal sidelights to the movies in which she appeared.
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Mother Goddam
Author: Whitney Stine
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of Hollywood's famous actresses offers a running commentary of personal sidelights to the movies in which she appeared.
Mother Goddam
Author: Whitney Stine
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 1985-12-15
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780425090749
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Author: Whitney Stine
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780425101384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dark Victory
Author: Ed Sikov
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-09-30
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780805088632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Bette Davis, focusing on her acting career, drawing from interviews with friends, directors, and admirers, archival research, and a new look at her films to provide insights into her personal and professional life.
Film Stars' Television Projects
Author: Richard Irvin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-09-11
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1476628432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed to become TV regulars. Drawing on contemporary interviews and other sources, this book profiles more than 50 actors--including Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd and Buster Keaton--and their unsuccessful pilots and short-lived series roles.
China and the Chinese in Popular Film
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-11-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1786720647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants of The Good Earth and Dragon Seed fighting against Japanese invasion in wartime tributes to the West's ally, Nationalist China. The cinema's split level response is also traced through the images of the ultimate Oriental villain, the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu and the timeless Chinese hero, the intelligent and benevolent detective Charlie Chan.Filling a longstanding gap in Cinema and Cultural History, the book is founded in fresh research into Hollywood's shifting representations of China and its people.
American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama 1914-1930
Author: Gerald Bordman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780195090789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The American Theatre series discusses every Broadway production chronologically--show by show and season by season. It offers plot summaries, production details, names of leading actors and actresses--the roles they played, as well as any special or unusual aspects of individual shows. This second volume in the series, covers what is probably the richest period in American theater, the years 1914 through 1930. Bordman includes most of Eugene O'Neill's work, along with playwrights as diverse as Elmer Rice and George Kaufman. Among the era's stars one finds John and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Katherine Cornell, and Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt. Considering the sheer number of productions, American theater climbed to its all-time high in the 1920s; by mid-decade, nearly 300 new plays appeared on Broadway each year. America saw more theatrical activity--in every sense of the word-- than any time before or since.
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Enter the Players
Author: Thomas S. Hischak
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780810847613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Each player is discussed in a brief biography, followed by a complete list of every play and character they performed in New York. Also included are plays and musicals that were heading to New York but closed before opening. Cast replacements are indicated as well as Tony nominations and awards. Within Enter the Players, each actor comes alive as his or her career is revealed step-by-step, role-by-role. This book is an invaluable reference work and provides hours of fascinating browsing for anyone who loves theatre."--BOOK JACKET.
