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  • Hörbuch

    A Rare Recording of Film Director DW Griffith

    von DW Griffith
    Erzählt von DW Griffith

    Ungekürzt

    6 Min.

    David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948), best known for directing the 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation," is considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, pioneering many aspects of film editing and expanding the art of the narrative film. In 1919, together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, Griffith founded the movie Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,36

  • The Naughty Bits

    What The Censors Wouldn't Let You See in Hollywood's Most Famous Movies

    von Nat Segaloff
    Between 1934 and 1968, no Hollywood studio could make a movie without the permission of and a seal of approval from the Production Code Administration. The Production Code was Hollywood's official censor. Screenplays, books, plays, costumes and even story ideas and songs had to be okayed by the Code before they could be filmed, and the Code monitored every stage of the production process to ensure Lesen Sie mehr

    € 16,82

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  • Oscar Wars

    A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

    The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes Hollywood drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes Lesen Sie mehr

    € 13,99

  • Cary Grant

    A Biography

    von Marc Eliot
    “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.”—Cary GrantHe is Hollywood’s most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904, in the seaport village of Bristol, England. Combining the captivating beauty of silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino with the masculine irresistibility of Lesen Sie mehr

    Zuvor € 10,66 Jetzt € 6,92

  • Seduction

    Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood

    The host of the podcast You Must Remember This explores Hollywood's golden age via the cinematic life of Howard Hughes and the women who encountered him.Howard Hughes's reputation as a director and producer of films unusually defined by sex dovetails with his image as one of the most prolific womanizers of the twentieth century. The promoter of bombshell actresses such as Jean Harlow and Jane Lesen Sie mehr

    € 15,83

  • City of Nets

    A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

    von Otto Friedrich
    "With its tough humor, profound cynicism, and unerring nose for corruption and hypocrisy, City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood." — The Village VoiceIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios Lesen Sie mehr

    € 15,83

  • The Ten-Cent Plague

    The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

    von David Hajdu
    This cultural history is a "well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it" ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,97

  • The History of Hollywood

    A century of greed, corruption and scandal behind the movies

    von Kieron Connolly
    Serien series Dark History
    'Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.' – Marilyn MonroeIt is now over 100 years since Hollywood became the centre of American cinema and, while it has always presented itself as a place of glamour and home to the beautiful and talented, from its very creation there was a darker side to Tinseltown. Film-makers didn’t just move to Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,13

  • Marilyn

    The Passion and the Paradox

    von Lois Banner
    'An excellent book ... fascinating.' Telegraph'A revelatory and intelligent tribute' Good Housekeeping______________________________Lois Banner's biography is revelatory.Banner had access to material about Marilyn Monroe that no one else has seen, from a trove of personal papers to facts and anecdotes about her childhood and her death. Banner traces the eleven foster homes Marilyn went to, un... Lesen Sie mehr

    € 9,89

  • A Life of Barbara Stanwyck

    Steel-True 1907-1940

    von Victoria Wilson
    “860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses—her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.Frank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress Lesen Sie mehr

    € 14,22

  • Lion of Hollywood

    The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer

    von Scott Eyman
    Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer—MGM—the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood’s Golden Age.An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were—Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio Lesen Sie mehr

    € 16,26