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The best American movie writing 1999 / edited by Peter Bogdanovich New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
Call No: 67(04) BESPlace: New YorkPublisher: St. Martin'sPubDate: 1999PhysDes: 280 p.Subject: WOMEN IN FILMS ; RELIGION AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD ; ETHNIC GROUPS IN FILMS ; GAZE IN FILMS ; FAMILY IN FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; BOORMAN, JOHN ; FRANKENHEIMER, JOHN ; SINATRA, FRANK ; FORD, JOHN ; THOMPSON, KAY ; YASUJIRO OZU ; MANGOLD, JAMES ; RISKIN, ROBERT ; SPIELBERG, STEVEN ; SCORSESE, MARTIN ; SARRIS, ANDREW ; MCCAREY, LEO ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDAL, GORE ; DOVE, BILLIE ; GRANT, CARY ; BURNETT, CHARLES ; HAPPINESS (US, Todd Solondz, 1998) ; SEARCHERS, THE (US, John Ford, 1956) ; EVE'S BAYOU (US, Kasi Lemons, 1997) ; TOUCH OF EVIL (US, Orson Welles, 1958) ; L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (US, Curtis Hanson, 1997) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; GENERAL, THE (UK, John Boorman, 1998) ; RONIN (US, John Frankenheimer, 1998) ; STARDUST MEMORIES (US, Woody Allen, 1980) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) ; DETOUR (US, Edgar G. Ulmer, ,1946) ; WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956) ; NOTORIOUS (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) ; BIG SLEEP, THE (US, Howard Hawkes, 1946) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; M (G, Fritz Lang, 1931) ; WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, A (US, John Cassavetes, 1974) ISBN: 0312244832ID2: 291
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Cary Grant : comedy and male desire / by Andrew Britton Newcastle-upon-Tyne: TC, 1983.
Call No: 81GRA BRIAuthor: Britton, Andrew Place: Newcastle-upon-TynePublisher: TCPubDate: 1983PhysDes: [24] p. ; 21cmSubject: GRANT, CARY Notes: American cinema films. Acting. Grant, Cary. - Critical studies (BNB/PRECIS); Bibliography: p22ISBN: 0946493006 (pbk) : ª1.25LON: bnb94649300; 2811384
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Close up : great cinematic performances. Volume 1, American / edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
Call No: 227.01(73) CLOPlace: UKPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2018Series: International film starsSubject: ACTORS ; CHARACTER ACTORS ; STARS ; WOMEN IN FILMS. USA ; WATERS, ETHEL ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GRANT, CARY ; GAYNOR, JANET ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; DAVIS, BETTE ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; SELLERS, PETER ; Stewart, James ; Lombard, Carole ; MASON, JAMES ; BURTON, RICHARD ; LEWIS, JERRY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; HACKMAN, GENE ; ROWLANDS, GENA ; NICHOLSON, JACK ; HOFFMAN, DUSTIN ; GOULD, ELLIOTT ; PACINO, AL ; GOLDBERG, WHOOPI ; BLANCHETT, CATE ; ISAAC, OSCAR ; STEWART, KRISTEN ; CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (FR/SZ/GG/US/BE, Olivier Assayas, 2014) ; MOST VIOLENT YEAR, A (US, J. C. Chandor, 2014) ; BLUE JASMINE (US, Woody Allen, 2013) ; COLOR PURPLE, THE (US, Steven Spielberg, 1985) ; DONNIE BRASCO (US, Mike Newell, 1997) ; LONG GOODBYE, THE (US, Robert Altman, 1973) ; RAIN MAN (US, Barry Levinson, 1988) ; PASSENGER, THE (IT/SP/FR, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) ; GLORIA (US, John Cassavetes, 1980) ; CONVERSATION, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) ; IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (US, Norman Jewison, 1967) ; KING OF COMEDY, THE (US, Martin Scorsese, 1983) ; SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, THE (UK, Martin Ritt, 1965) ; PINK PANTHER, THE (US, Blake Edwards, 1964) ; SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (US, Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; LOLITA (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1962) ; TO BE OR NOT TO BE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) ; LION IN WINTER, THE (UK, Anthony Harvey, 1968) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; DANGEROUS (US, Alfred E. Green, 1935) ; SUNRISE (US, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, 1927) Summary: "Examines the significance of women's participation in popular genres.
Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema. What actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural visibility of movie stars is so pronounced that stardom has often been regarded as intrinsic to the medium's specificity. Yet not all great cinematic performances are star turns, and so, what really makes a cinematic performance good, interesting, or important has been a neglected topic in film criticism. This two-volume set presents detailed interpretations of singular performances by several of the most compelling actors in cinema history, asking in many different and complementary ways what makes performance meaningful, how it reflects a director's style, as well as how it contributes to the development of national cinemas and cultures. Whether noting the precise ways actors shape film narrative, achieve emotional effect, or move toward political subversion, the essays in these books innovate new approaches to studying screen performance as an art form and cultural force"--Page 4 of cover.Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN: 9781474417006Contents: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Close-up: great American performances -- Chapter 1 Ethel Waters in The Member of the Wedding -- Chapter 2 Irene Dunne in The Awful Truth -- Chapter 3 Cary Grant in His Girl Friday -- Chapter 4 Janet Gaynor in Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans -- Chapter 5 Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter -- Chapter 6 Bette Davis in Dangerous -- Chapter 7 James Stewart in Vertigo -- Chapter 8 Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be -- Chapter 9 James Mason in Lolita -- Chapter 10 Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun -- Chapter 11 Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success.
Chapter 12 Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther -- Chapter 13 Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold -- Chapter 14 Jerry Lewis in The King of Comedy -- Chapter 15 Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night -- Chapter 16 Gene Hackman in The Conversation -- Chapter 17 Gena Rowlands in Gloria -- Chapter 18 Jack Nicholson in The Passenger -- Chapter 19 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man -- Chapter 20 Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye -- Chapter 21 Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco -- Chapter 22 Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple -- Chapter 23 Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine -- Chapter 24 Oscar Isaac in A Most Violent Year -- Chapter 25 Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria -- Index.ID2: 362
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The debonairs / James Robert Parish and Don E. Stanke ; editor, T. Allan Taylor ; research associates, John Robert Cocchi, Michael R. Pitts, Florence Solomon ; introd. by Earl Anderson New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, c1975.
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Hollywood androgyny / Rebecca Bell-Metereau New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
Call No: 749.5 BELAuthor: Bell-Metereau, Rebecca Louise Edition: 2nd edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 1993PhysDes: xxii, 345 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: TRANSVESTISM ; AIDS IN FILMS ; ART CINEMA. EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; UNDERGROUND FILMS ; HOMOSEXUALITY IN FILMS ; SEX IN FILMS ; WESTERNS ; WILDER, BILLY ; GARBO, GRETA ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; CURTIS, TONY ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; MADONNA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; SCOTT, RIDLEY ; ADLER, LOU ; DAY, DORIS ; CROSBY, BING ; EDWARDS, BLAKE ; GRANT, CARY ; LEMMON, JACK ; REA, STEPHEN ; SHERIDAN, ANN ; YENTL (US, Barbara Streisand, 1983) ; VICTOR VICTORIA (UK, Blake Edwards, 1982) ; ALIEN [...] (UK/US, 1979-92) ; CAGE AUX FOLLES, LA (FR/IT, Edouard Molinaro, 1978) ; CALAMITY JANE (US, David Butler, 1953) ; COME BACK TO THE FIVE AND DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN (US, Robert Altman, 1982) ; CRYING GAME, THE (UK, Neil Jordan, 1992) ; I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE (US, Howard Hawks, 1949) ; KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE, THE (US, Robert Aldrich, 1968) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; THELMA & LOUISE (US, Ridley Scott, 1991) ; JOHNNY GUITAR (US, Nicholas Ray, 1954) ; PSYCHO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) ; DRESSED TO KILL (US, Brian De Palma, 1980) ; BLUE VELVET (US, David Lynch, 1986) ; WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, THE (US, George Roy Hill, 1982) ; TOOTSIE (US, Sydney Pollack, 1982) ; SYLVIA SCARLETT (US, George Cukor, 1935) ; ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, THE (UK, Jim Sharman, 1975) ; QUEEN CHRISTINA (US, Rouben Mamoulian, 1934) ; PLAINSMAN, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1936) ; PARIS IS BURNING (US, Jennie Livingston, 1990) ; NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (US, Jack Smight, 1968) ; MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (US, Mike Sarne, 1970) Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-327) and indexISBN: 0231084676 (acidb-sfree paper)LON: 10110408
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Hollywood color portraits / by John Kobal, Introduction by Carlos Clarens New York: Quill, c1981.
Call No: 802.27(084.2) KOBAuthor: Kobal, John Edition: 1st Quill ed.Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: QuillPubDate: c1981PhysDes: 159 p. : col. ill. ; 30cmSubject: ACTORS ; PHOTOGRAPHY ; PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CINEMA ; FIELDS, W.C. ; WEST, MAE ; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; LAMOUR, DOROTHY ; SWANSON, GLORIA ; SOTHERN, ANN ; MACDONALD, JEANETTE ; Stewart, James ; YOUNG, LORETTA ; COOPER, GARY ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; TURNER, LANA ; GARLAND, JUDY ; ROONEY, MICKEY ; MONTEZ, MARIA ; DE HAVILLAND, OLIVIA ; FONTAINE, JOAN ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; DAVIS, BETTE ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; LAMARR, HEDY ; SHERIDAN, ANN ; TIERNEY, GENE ; LAKE, VERONICA ; LADD, ALAN ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; BERGMAN, INGRID ; GODDARD, PAULETEE ; WAYNE, JOHN ; GRABLE, BETTY ; COOPER, GARY ; TAYLOR, ROBERT ; POWER, TYRONE ; HUTTON, BETTY ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; DARNELL, LINDA ; SINATRA, FRANK ; ROGERS, ROY ; TRIGGER (Horse) ; PAL (Canine actor) ; BACALL, LAUREN ; LANCASTER, BURT ; SCOTT, LIZABETH ; DOUGLAS, KIRK ; MIRANDA, CARMEN ; JONES, JENNIFER ; FORD, GLENN ; BALL, LUCILLE ; OBERON, MERLE ; PECK, GREGORY ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; GRAHAME, GLORIA ; GRANT, CARY ; HAYWORTH, RITA ; VALLI, ALIDA ; JOURDAN, LOUIS ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; ROBERT, RYAN ; MITCHUM, ROBERT ; CHARISSE, CYD ; BARKER, LEX ; RUSSELL, JANE ; GARBO, GRETA ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; GARDNER, AVA ; TURNER, LANA ; MONROE, MARILYN ; CRAWFORD, JOAN ; DEAN, JAMES ; NOVAK, KIM ; MANSFIELD, JAYNE ; PRESLEY, ELVIS ; BRANDO, MARLON Summary: "John Kobal, the world's foremost film archivist, has amassed an unrivaled photographic treasure of Hollywood glamour portraits. As an author and noted film historian, he has also been a major force behind the tremendous revival of interest in the work of the great studio photographers such as George Hurrell, Ted Allan, Lazlo Willinger, and Clarence Sinclair Bull.
The selection of photographs in this book extends from the mid-1930s to the 1950s, the period in which color photography became established in Hollywood, and contains 74 spectacular images of the major stars." -- BOOK JACKETNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 17); Book contains pictures of various Hollywood actorsISBN: 0688007538
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The "I" of the camera : essays in film criticism, history, and aesthetics / William Rothman Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Call No: 67(04) ROTAuthor: Rothman, William Place: Cambridge [England] New YorkPublisher: Cambridge University PressPubDate: 1988PhysDes: xix, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSeries: Cambridge studies in filmSubject: USA ; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA ; ADAPTATIONS ; EROTICISM IN FILMS ; MELODRAMA ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; RENOIR, JEAN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GRANT, CARY ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; GUZZETTI, ALFRED ; BACALL, LAUREN ; ASTOR, MARY ; JUDITH OF BETHULIA (US, David Wark Griffith, 1913) ; CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931) ; RED DUST (US, Victor Fleming, 1932) ; STELLA DALLAS (US, King Vidor, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; RIVER, THE (II/US, Jean Renoir, 1951) ; FAMILY PORTRAIT SITTINGS (US, Alfred Guzzetti, 1976) ; TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (US, Howard Hawks, 1944) ; TRUE HEART SUSIE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1919) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; REGLE DU JEU, LA (FR, Jean Renoir, 1939) ; VERTIGO (US, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. xviii-xixISBN: 0521368286 (pbk.); 052136048XLON: 5831391
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Ingrid Bergman : my story / Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess Great Britain: Sphere Books, 1981, c1980.
Call No: 81BER BERAuthor: Bergman, Ingrid ; Burgess, Alan Edition: Sphere edSource: UKPlace: Great BritainPublisher: Sphere BooksPubDate: 1981, c1980PhysDes: xvii, 556 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports ; 18 cmSubject: BERGMAN, INGRID ; GRANT, CARY ; MAGNANI, ANNA ; ROSSELLINI, ISABELLA ; ROSSELLINI, ROBERTO ; SELZNICK, DAVID O. ; STROMBOLI (IT, Roberto Rossellini, 1949) Summary: A winner of three Academy Awards and three New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Ingrid Bergman provides her true story of her personal life- her childhood, her marriages and her battle against cancer. A history of her films and film-making, plays and players, are described.ISBN: 0722154488ID2: 69
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"It's only a movie, Ingrid" : encounters on and off screen / Alexander Walker London: Headline Book Publishing, 1989.
Call No: 67(04) WALAuthor: Walker, Alexander Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: Headline Book PublishingPubDate: 1989PhysDes: viii, [312] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 18 cmSubject: CRITICISM ; FESTIVALS. CANNES ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; FULL METAL JACKET (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1987) ; GODFATHER, THE (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) ; SHINING, THE (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1980) ; [TWO THOUSAND AND ONE] 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1968) ; BOGARDE, DIRK ; BURTON, RICHARD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; COOPER, GARY ; Crawford, Joan ; CRAWFORD, NOEL ; DAVIS, BETTE ; EVANS, EDITH ; Fellini, Federico ; FORBES, BRYAN ; GARBO, GRETA ; GIELGUD, JOHN ; GRANT, CARY ; GREENE, GRAHAM ; HARVEY, LAURENCE ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HOWARD, TREVOR ; HUSTON, JOHN ; KAZAN, ELIA ; KUBRICK, STANLEY ; Lean, David ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; LOSEY, JOSEPH ; Shakespeare, William ; TRACY, SPENCER ; TYNAN, KENNETH ; VON STERNBERG, JOSEF ; WELLES, ORSON ; ZINNEMANN, FRED ISBN: 0747230218Contents: -- "Do you mean to say they pay you to go to the movies?" -- "Name the six best films you've ever seen" -- Charlie's Angel and the Culture Minister's walking stick -- A day in the hard-playing hard-working life of a far from mad old woman -- Cary Grant and the Harry Lime connection -- The soft words of Mr Rattigan - the hard blows of Mr Russell --- Even Hollywood princesses don't always live happy ever after -- No need to bribe a film festival jury; it can do that for itself -- What made Marlon Brando stop running and find peace at last -- The girl who blew in with the Boston winds -- Peter O'Toole meets himself, two feet tall and blue-eyed, coming back from a trip abroad -- Random thoughts on the Englishness (or otherwise) of English film actors -- Inexactly expressed sentiments about the most private person I know -- "Why this one and not that one, why one event and not the other?"
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Masked men : masculinity and the movies in the fifties / Steven Cohan Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1997.
Call No: 451-01 COHAuthor: Cohan, Steven Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: c1997PhysDes: xxi, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSeries: Arts and politics of the everydaySubject: MASCULINITY IN FILMS ; GENDER AND THE CINEMA ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; BISEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; CLASS AND THE CINEMA ; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; CURTIS, TONY ; GRANT, CARY ; HOLDEN, WILLIAM ; HESTON, CHARLTON ; HUDSON, ROCK ; PICNIC (US, Joshua Logan, 1955) ; PILLOW TALK (US, Michael Gordon, 1959) ; PLACE IN THE SUN, A (US, George Stevens, 1951) ; SOME LIKE IT HOT (US, Billy Wilder, 1959) ; TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE (US, Cecil B. DeMille, 1956) ; RED RIVER (US, Howard Hawks, 1948) Summary: When we think of the films of the 1950s, we inevitably remember the confident swagger of John Wayne, the suave sophistication of Cary Grant, and the emotional intensity of Marlon Brando. But today's culture critics see in the decade a period when heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate the representation of American masculinity. Masked Men documents how movies of the 1950s represented masculinity as a multiple masquerade. Hollywood depicted the sexual anxieties of the domesticated breadwinner, the repudiation of wartime homoerotic male bonding, the exhibitionism of muscular bodies, the transvestic connotations of boyishness, and the playboy bachelor apartment. These presentations challenged the postwar ideal of the typical American male, that omnipresent and seemingly invisible Man in a Gray Flannel SuitNotes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-335) and index; Filmography: p. [321]-322ISBN: 0253211271 (pa : alk. paper); 0253332974 (cl : alk. paper)LON: 12951206
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Movie man / David Thomson London: Secker & Warburg, 1967.
Call No: 62 THOAuthor: Thomson, David, 1941 Place: LondonPublisher: Secker & WarburgPubDate: 1967PhysDes: 234 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cmSubject: CINEMATOGRAPHY ; SOCIETY AND THE CINEMA ; GRANT, CARY ; MONROE, MARILYN ; NOVAK, KIM ; LANG, FRITZ ; RENOIR, JEAN ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; DEMY, JACQUES ; RIVETTE, JACQUES ; PREMINGER, OTTO Notes: Includes index; "Filmography": p. 217-223LON: xls00449773; 4094552URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Romantic comedy in Hollywood : from Lubitsch to Sturges / James Harvey New York: Knopf, 1987.
Call No: 732(73) HARAuthor: Harvey, James, 1929 Edition: 1st edSource: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: KnopfPubDate: 1987PhysDes: xii, 716 p. : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: ACTORS ; COMEDIES ; DIRECTORS ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1930's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; ROMANTIC COMEDY ; ROMANTIC FILMS. USA ; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS ; STAR SYSTEM ; ARTHUR, JEAN ; ASTAIRE, FRED ; BRACKEN, EDDIE ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; CAPRA, FRANK ; COLBERT, CLAUDETTE ; COOPER, GARY ; DUNNE, IRENE ; GABLE, CLARK ; GRANT, CARY ; HARLOW, JEAN ; HAWKS, HOWARD ; LA CAVA, GREGORY ; Lombard, Carole ; LOY, MYRNA ; LUBITSCH, ERNST ; MCCAREY, LEO ; MCCREA, JOEL ; POWELL, WILLIAM ; ROGERS, GINGER ; Stanwyck, Barbara ; STEVENS, GEORGE ; STURGES, PRESTON ; AWFUL TRUTH, THE (US, Leo McCarey, 1937) ; BRINGING UP BABY (US, Howard Hawks, 1938) ; [FIFTH] 5TH AVENUE GIRL (US, Gregory La Cava, 1939) ; HIS GIRL FRIDAY (US, Howard Hawks, 1940) ; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934) ; LADY EVE, THE (US, Preston Sturges, 1941) ; LOVE PARADE, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929) ; NINOTCHKA (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1939) ; PALM BEACH STORY, THE (US, Preston Sturgess, 1942) ; SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, THE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1940) ; TROUBLE IN PARADISE (US, Ernst Lubitsch, 1932) ; UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (US, Preston Sturges, 1948) Summary: "Reading ROMANTIC COMEDY is like going to the movies. It recreates for us movies we've come to love: movies the way they were when, in 1934, four in particular - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, TWENTIETH CENTURE, THE THIN MAN, and THE GAY DIVORCEE - heralded the arrival of the golden age of Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Over the next ten years, some of Hollywood's brightest directors and stars turned out some of America's most enduring and beloved films. The screwballs - slangy, irreverent, playful, skeptical, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love" - constitute a genre of American film unique in its combination of the innocent and the worldly, of swank and slapstick. Now critic James Harvey - writing with brilliance and humor - gives us the first truly comprehensive book about these movies and the people who made them." [Taken from book jacket]Notes: Includes indexISBN: 0394503392LON: 5273661
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Scratch an actor : confessions of a Hollywood columnist London: W. H. Allen, 1970 [1969].
Call No: 802.27 GRAAuthor: Graham, Sheilah Place: LondonPublisher: W. H. AllenPubDate: 1970 [1969]PhysDes: 295 p., 24 plates. ports. 23 cmSubject: STREISAND, BARBRA ; GRANT, CARY ; TRACY, SPENCER ; HEPBURN, KATHARINE ; SINATRA, FRANK ; BRANDO, MARLON ; ANDREWS, JULIE ; HAMILTON, GEORGE ; SELLERS, PETER ; TAYLOR, ELIZABETH ; MONROE, MARILYN ; BEATTY, WARREN ; LOREN, SOPHIA ; LANCASTER, BURT ; DOUGLAS, KIRK ; FONDA, HENRY ; FONDA, JANE ; FONDA, PETER ; Reagan, Ronald ; CAINE, MICHAEL ; CONNERY, SEAN ; COOPER, GARY ; GARBO, GRETA ; BOGART, HUMPHREY Notes: Originally published under title: Confessions of a Hollywood columnistISBN: 0491004227LON: 96708
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Tales from the Hollywood raj : the British, the movies and tinseltown / Sheridan Morley New York: Viking Press, c1983.
Call No: 802 MORAuthor: Morley, Sheridan Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Viking PressPubDate: c1983PhysDes: 237p., [16] p. of plates; ill. ; 24cmSubject: UNITED KINGDOM ; USA ; ACTORS ; MORLEY, ROBERT ; COLMAN, RONALD ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; HARRISON, REX ; GRANT, CARY ; LEIGH, VIVIEN ; OLIVIER, LAURENCE ; NIVEN, DAVID ; HOWARD, LESLIE ; HITCHCOCK, ALFRED ; HARDWICKE, CEDRIC ; COWARD, NOEL ; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS ; HEPBURN, AUDREY Summary: "Sheridan Morley, who spent the best part of his eighth year in Hollywood with his grandmother, the same Gladys Cooper, and his father, Robert Morley, provides here the first detailed history of the colonization of Hollywood by the British, from the coming of sound through fifty years to the final dismantling of the old studios by television." (Taken from back cover)ISBN: 0670691623Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006
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Who the hell's in it : portraits and conversations / Peter Bogdanovich London: Faber and Faber Limited, 2004.
Call No: 802.27 BOGAuthor: Bogdanovich, Peter Edition: 2005Place: LondonPublisher: Faber and Faber LimitedPubDate: 2004PhysDes: 528 pages ; illustrated ; 20 cmSubject: ACTING ; BOGDANOVICH, PETER ; GISH, LILLIAN ; BOGART, HUMPHREY ; BRANDO, MARLON ; ADLER, STELLA ; CLIFT, MONTGOMERY ; GRANT, CARY ; LEMMON, JACK ; LEWIS, JERRY ; MARTIN, DEAN ; MINEO, SAL ; Stewart, James ; WAYNE, JOHN ; FONDA, HENRY ; KARLOFF, BORIS ; CASSAVETES, JOHN ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; CAGNEY, JAMES ; DIETRICH, MARLENE ; Perkins, Anthony ; SINATRA, FRANK ; GAZARRA, BEN ; HEPBURN, AUDREY ; POITIER, SIDNEY ; PHOENIX, RIVER ; MONROE, MARILYN Summary: From Peter Bogdanovich - director, screenwriter, actor, and cinema scholar - 26 fascinating portraits of Hollywood's most acclaimed movie actors and actresses: stars whom he has known, admired, and occasionally worked with.
Within these pages is Bogdanovich on Charlie Chaplin, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, James Cagney, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Marlene Dietrich, Jack Lemmon, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, James Stewart, Frank Sinatra, and many more. With an acute and affectionate eye, Bogdanovich shows us Lillian Gish, the first virginal hearth goddess of the silver screen; Marlon Brando, refusing to play the same from one picture to the next, yet ever recognisable as the great actor, in spite of himself; Jerry Lewis, whose goofy comedy represented the nine-year-old in all of us; and Cary Grant, the epitome of screen elegance, benignly aware that in life even he could never live up to his own legend. Bogdanovich captures brilliantly - in their own words and his - the personality, the work, the style and the enduring iconic appeal of America's movie greats. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780571224319Donation: James Sabine
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