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  • Hitchcock and the Censors

    von John Billheimer
    Serien series Screen Classics
    Edgar Award Winner: This lively account of the director's battles with the Code Office is "an essential addition to any Hitchcock shelf" ( Mystery Scene Magazine).From 1934 to 1968, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words, as well as Lesen Sie mehr

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    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

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  • Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

    von Stephen Rebello
    A "meticulous history" of the classic suspense film based on exclusive interviews with the director, writers, cast, and crew ( The New York Times Book Review).First released in June 1960, Psycho altered the landscape of horror films forever. But just as compelling as the movie itself is the story behind it, which has been adapted as a movie starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as Lesen Sie mehr

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  • The Big Goodbye

    Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

    von Sam Wasson
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelatory account of the making of a modern American masterpieceChinatown is the Holy Grail of 1970s cinema. Its twist ending is the most notorious in American film and its closing line of dialogue the most haunting. Here for the first time is the incredible true story of its making.In Sam Wasson's telling, Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Marilyn Monroe

    A Biography

    von Barbara Leaming
    Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity Lesen Sie mehr

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  • 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

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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

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  • Dark Victory

    The Life of Bette Davis

    von Ed Sikov
    The legendary Hollywood star blazes a fiery trail in this enthralling portrait of a brilliant actress and the movies her talent elevated to greatnessShe was magnificent and exasperating in equal measure. Jack Warner called her "an explosive little broad with a sharp left." Humphrey Bogart once remarked, "Unless you're very big she can knock you down." Bette Davis was a force of nature—an Lesen Sie mehr

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  • 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

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  • The Bennetts

    An Acting Family

    von Brian Kellow
    "An engrossing new page turner" about one of old Hollywood's royal families: "theater people don't get more interesting, and it's a true tale well told" ( Hollywood Reporter).In the early 1930s, Constance Bennett was the highest paid star in Hollywood, famous for dramatic roles before reinventing herself in the classic comedy Topper, starring opposite Cary Grant. Her sister Joan played the femme Lesen Sie mehr

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  • 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

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