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Call No: 81CAP MCB
Author: McBride, Joseph
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
PubDate: 1992
PhysDes: 768 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Subject: COMEDIES; AUTHORSHIP; COLUMBIA PICTURES; HOLLYWOOD; DIRECTORS; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; CAPRA, FRANK; COHN, HARRY; RISKIN, ROBERT; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946); LADY FOR A DAY (US, Frank Capra, 1933); LOST HORIZON (US, Frank Capra, 1937); MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941); MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936); MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44); YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (US, Frank Capra, 1938)
Summary: "FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the first major biography of one of the greatest directors in Hollywood history, the man behind such classic films as IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE [...] FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS is the result of more than seven years of work. It is drawn from extensive archival research and interviews with 175 people who knew or worked with Capra, as well as many hours of interviews with Capra himself. In this biography, Joseph McBride gives us the definitive portrait of one of our greatest filmmakers." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Filmography: p. [117]-731; Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0671797883 (pbk.); 0671734946 : $27.50
LON: abn92038576; 8711584

Call No: 81PAR PAR
Author: Parrish, Robert
Place: London
Publisher: Bodley Head
PubDate: 1976
PhysDes: [10], 229 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., facsims., ports. ; 22 cm
Subject: COLUMBIA PICTURES; SCREEN ACTORS GUILD; PARRISH, ROBERT; BORZAGE, FRANK; CHAPLIN, CHARLES; COHN, HARRY; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; FAIRBANKS, DOUGLAS; FORD, JOHN; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK; HAMILTON, WILLIAM; HOWE, JAMES WONG; INDRISANO, JOHNNY; ROSSEN, ROBERT; SCHREIBER, LEW; VALENTINO, RUDOLPH; INFORMER, THE (US, John Ford, 1935); ONE IN A MILLION (US, Sidney Lanfield, 1936); DIVINE LADY, THE (US, Frank Lloyd, 1929); CITY LIGHTS (US, Charles Chaplin, 1931); ALL THE KINGS MEN (US, Robert Rossen, 1949); BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947); CRY DANGER (US, Robert Parrish, 1951); HAVING WONDERFUL TIME (US, Alfred Santell, 1938)
Summary: "Hollywood has thrown up a host of great actors and directors, geniuses and eccentrics, but remarkably few chroniclers of any brilliance. At last, in Growing up in Hollwood, Robert Parrish has produced a picture of Hollywood which is consistently well-observed, intelligent, evocative and, best of all, very, very funny. Robert Parrish, a child actor in the 1920's (in Chaplin's City Lights he was one of the two pea-shooting news boys), served his apprenticeship both in front of the camreas as an extra, and in the cutting rooms under famous directors in 1950. This book is a series of lively, skillfully told anecdotes of working in motion pictures in the golden days between the coming of talkies and the spread of television. In a series of fascinating close-ups we are shown, for instance, Charlie Chaplin rehearsing a scene from City Lights, Cecil B. de Mille bullying his cast of thousands, Raoul Walsh getting the best out of John Wayne, Ian Keith and an assortment of quadrupeds in The Big Trail, and John Ford cracking his whip on and off the set. What makes these memories so compelling is the charm and vivacity, the clear-sighted innocence of the author (a rare gift in hollywood) and his remarkable ability to bring scenes and dialogue to life so that the reader is constantly ready for more. " BOOK JACKET
ISBN: 0370113128
LON: bnb37011312; 1934872
Contents: -- 1 The black pirate -- 2 A new hero -- 3 Shall we gather at the river? -- 4 Breakfast with champions -- 5 Silent star -- 6 Charlie -- 7 Our gang -- 8 The black pirate returns -- 9 Always say yes -- 10 I left my love at fractured jaw -- 11 Dragnet -- 12 C.B. -- 13 Soap gets in your eyes -- 14 Having a wonderful time -- 15 Billy Hamilton, positive cutter -- 16 The ice age comes to hollywood -- 17 Producer-director relations -- 18 Director-cast relations (female) -- 19 The first lesson -- 20 Director-cast relations (male) -- 21 The battle of midway -- 22 Do good by stealth, etc -- 23 Detente with Russia -- 24 In memoriam -- 25 Linoleum OOgie -- 26 Tiger, tiger, burning bright -- 27 Oscar -- 28 Interior Columbia Studio - day -- 29 You don't want to go to Europe... -- 30 Is it fun yet? -- 31 anybody can direct -- 32 petition -- 33 the final lesson -- 34 the winds of change -- conclusion -acknowledgements -index

Call No: 81COH THO
Author: Thomas, Bob, 1922
Place: London
Publisher: Barrie & Rockliff
PubDate: 1967
PhysDes: xxiii, 381 p. 16 plates (incl. ports.). 23 cm
Subject: Cohn, Harry, 1891-1958
LON: 67109846; 1121664

Call No: 802.091.11 ZIE
Author: Zierold, Norman
Edition: 1969
Place: New York
Publisher: Coward-McCann
PubDate: 1969
PhysDes: 22 cm ; 354 pages
Subject: HOLLYWOOD; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; LAEMMLE, CARL; GOLDWYN, SAMUEL; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; WARNER BROS.; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MAYER, LOUIS B.; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; COHN, HARRY; SCHULBERG, BUDD
AFIRC Location: Stacks

Call No: 802.091.11 FRE
Author: French, Philip
Source: UK
Place: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Publisher: Penguin
PubDate: 1971
PhysDes: 208 p., [16] p. of plates ; 18 cm
Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HOLLYWOOD; INDUSTRY, FILM; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MOTION PICTURE PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS OF AMERICA; STUDIO SYSTEM; PARAMOUNT STUDIOS; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX; UNIVERSAL PICTURES; UNITED ARTISTS; WARNER BROS.; COHN, HARRY; DEMILLE, CECIL B.; DISNEY, WALT; KATZ, SAM; KENNEDY JOSEPH P.; LAEMMLE, CARL; LASKY, JESSE; SCHARY, DORE; SCHULBERG, BUDD; SCHENCK, JOSEPH M; SELZNICK, DAVID O.; SHEARER, NORMA; SKOURAS, SPYROS; SINCLAIR, UPTON; THALBERG, IRVING; WANGER, WALTER; STROHEIN, ERICH VON; ZANUCK, DARRYL F.; ZANUCK, RICHARD; ZUKOR, ADOLPH
Notes: includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 297762664
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 81CAP CAP
Author: Capra, Frank, 1897
Place: New York
Publisher: Macmillan
PubDate: c1971
PhysDes: xii, 513 p. illus., ports. 24 cm
Subject: DIRECTORS; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; CAPRA, FRANK; COHN, HARRY; IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (US, Frank Capra, 1934); WHY WE FIGHT SERIES (US, 1942-44)
Summary: "THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE provides a star vehicle for one of the few really great men of moviedom. The history of Hollywood and the story of Frank Capra's forty-year career there run parallel: the rise of the motion picture from Mack Sennett's Keystone Klown Kollege through the triumphant years of the best and most loved movies ever made - many of them with Capra's name above the title." [Taken from book jacket]
Notes: Contains index
LON: 72135643; 602321

Call No: 62 POS
Author: Bordwell, David, 1947; Carroll, Noel (NoFl E.)
Place: Madison
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
PubDate: 1996
PhysDes: 564 p. : 23 cm
Series: Wisconsin studies in film
Subject: THEORY; FILM STUDY AND RESEARCH; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CINEMA; FEMINISM AND THE CINEMA; HORROR FILMS; TRUTH IN FILMS; MUSIC, FILM; NON-FICTION FILMS; REALISM IN FILMS; AVANT-GARDE FILMS; SPECTATORSHIP; JAPAN; DENMARK; EXHIBITION; CHARACTERIZATION IN FILMS; AUDIENCES; CONSTRUCTIVISM; EDITING; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF FILMS; GENRES; LOVE IN FILMS; MELODRAMA; NARRATIVE IN FILMS; COLUMBIA PICTURES; WARNER BROS.; BRECHT, BERTOLT; GIBSON, JAMES J.; COHN, HARRY; JAMESON, FREDRIC; MANDEL, ERNEST; RENOV, MICHAEL; JAZZ SINGER, THE (US, Alan Crosland, 1927); CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942); ACCUSED, THE (US, Jonathan Kaplan, 1988)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN: 0299149404 (cloth : alk. paper); 0299149447 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LON: 95037052; 11859923