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The Mark Hellinger Story: A Biography of Broadway and Hollywood

By: Bishop, Jim

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.: (c.1952)

Seller ID: 24640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[good solid copy, minor wear evident at spine ends and bottom corners; jacket also shows wear (with a few tiny nicks) at spine ends, short closed tear and associated minor crease at bottom of front panel, light rubbing/edgewear]. (B&W photographs) Biography of the Broadway columnist turned Hollywood writer/producer, who died in 1947 at age 44.
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Burt Lancaster: An American Life [SIGNED]

By: Buford, Kate

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 2000

Seller ID: 17116

ISBN: 0-679-44603-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice tight unread copy, very faint spotting on top edge; jacket has a minor internal dampstain at base of spine, but exterior appearance is flawless]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. The first full-scale biography of Lancaster, "a dynamic biography of a passionate and committed star." Signed by Author
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With Powder on My Nose [SIGNED]

By: Burke, Billie, with Cameron Shipp

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: (c.1959)

Seller ID: 18828

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[some shelfwear to cloth at bottom edge, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket a little darkened at spine, worn along joints, wrinkling/creasing at top of spine]. (line drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To my beloved director / and dearest thanks for / being in that time[?]/ picture! Here I am / with precious Philadelphia / all about me -- / [illegible] - be more faithful. / devotedly / Billie / Oct. 27th /1959." The fluttery-voiced actress's second book of anecdotal memoirs, the existence of which she explains thusly: "There were things I could...
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The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

By: Capra, Frank

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen: 1972 (c.1971)

Seller ID: 24036

ISBN: 0491003498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight unmarked book with just a touch of soiling to bottom of text block; the jacket shows a modest amount of scuffing on the rear panel and slight edgewear near the upper front hinge, otherwise in very nice condition]. (B&W photographs) The great film director's notably self-serving yet highly readable autobiography. The Foreword is by John Ford, who (after invoking the names of George Stevens, Billy Wilder, Jean Renoir, Federico Fellini, Fred Zinnemann, David Lean, and half a dozen others) asserts that Capra "heads the list as the greatest motion picture director in the world....
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A Tribute to Fred Astaire

By: Carrick, Peter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Salem NH, Salem House: 1985 (c.1984)

Seller ID: 11928

ISBN: 0-88162-081-5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[covers very slightly bowed outwards, otherwise a nice clean copy, no discernible wear; jacket very slightly yellowed along top edge]. (B&W photographs) Straightforward biography of the dancer/singer/actor; not sure why it's called a "tribute," exactly.
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Ernst Lubitsch; a guide to references and resources

By: Carringer, Robert, and Barry Sabath

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, G.K. Hall & Co.: [1978]

Seller ID: 24532

ISBN: 081617895X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice copy with just a touch of shelfwear and one tiny stain to bottom of text block]. (A Reference Publication in Film) Series (B&W photo frontispiece) Comphensive reference guide to Lubitsch's life and work, divided into the following sections: Biographical Background; Critical Survey; The Films (including synopses, full credits and notes); Writings about Ernst Lubitsch; Writings, Performances and Other Film Related Activity; Archival Sources; Film Distributors. Although Lubitsch has certainly been given more fulsome biographical treatments since this volume was...
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Hollywood Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole

By: Cole, Lester

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Palo Alto CA, Ramparts Press: (c.1981)

Seller ID: 25134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a pristine copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs, facsimile documents) Memoir of the screenwriter and committed social activist (and Communist Party member), who eventually became one of the "Hollywood Ten," jailed for contempt of Congress.
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Bela Lugosi: Then and Now!

By: Copner, Mike, and Buddy Barnett

Price: $35.00

Publisher: North Hollywood CA, Videosonic Arts: (c.1990)

Seller ID: 24528

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

[slight vertical bend, no other significant wear]. (Videosonic Arts, Vol. 1) Series (B&W photographs, movie ad reproductions) 98-page magazine-format publication devoted to Bela Lugosi, featuring "rare Dracula photos," a complete checklist of Lugosi's films, and a reprint of a brief article (dated 1934 but otherwise unsourced) by Lugosi entitled "I welcome the romantic role after being typed as 'heavy'." About half the publication is devoted to a general survey of the actor's life and career and a discussion of several books about him, but there are also a couple of articles ...
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Von Stroheim

By: Curtiss, Thomas Quinn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1971

Seller ID: 14902

ISBN: 0-374-2-8520-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [good solid copy, light wear at corners, a couple of tiny spots on fore-edge; jacket very slightly worn along top edge]. (B&W photographs) The authorized (more or less) biography of the actor-turned-director who made some of the most daring films of the silent era, but was ultimately ostracized for his extravagant ways. Author Curtiss, a one-time student of Sergei Eisenstein (and one-time lover of Klaus Mann), first met von Stroheim in 1940, and became a friend and confidant. The friendship deepened in 1950 when Curtiss settled in Paris and began writing for the Internationa...
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Anthony Mann: The Film Career

By: Darby, William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company: (c.2009)

Seller ID: 24430

ISBN: 0786438398

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

[nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "This detailed study of the career of Anthony Mann argues Mann's prominence and influence alongside contemporaries like John Ford. Mann (1906-1967), who was active in Hollywood and Europe, directed or produced more than 40 films, including THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE. [Seriously? Those are the two films they chose to single out in the blurb?] Best known for his work in the film noir and western genres [that's more like it!] and his films starring Jimmy Stewart, Mann later moved into Col...
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My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon

By: de Mille, Richard

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1998

Seller ID: 16385

ISBN: 0-374-21757-2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[very slight wear and minor bumping to bottom edge; jacket shows just a bit of surface-scratching]. (B&W photographs) Fascinating memoir by the adopted son of famed movie producer/director Cecil B. DeMille, and his discovery -- many years after the fact -- that his birth mother was "an exotic figure of silent-film-era Hollywood," the novelist/screenwriter/newspaperwoman Lorna Moon, and that he was the illegitimate product of her liaison with Cecil's brother William de Mille. Oh, what a tangled web these silent movie people wove!
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It's a Hell of a Life But Not a Bad Living

By: Dmytryk, Edward

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Times Books: (c.1978)

Seller ID: 24032

ISBN: 081290785X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[no wear to book at all, a nice clean tight copy; the jacket shows a few traces of wear along the bottom edge, with one tiny tear and an associated short diagonal crease at the bottom of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the Hollywood director, the only member of the original "Hollywood Ten" to later recant his HUAC testimony, which got him off the blacklist but also made him something of a pariah, at least among the Hollywood left.
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George Cukor

By: Domarchi, Jean

Price: $25.00

Publisher: [Paris], Éditions Seghers: 1965

Seller ID: 23861

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[light external soiling, some age-toning to edges of text block, tiny surface-scrape near bottom of rear cover]. (Cinéma d'aujourd'hui, no. 33) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) French-language monograph on American director George Cukor. Following the typical format of this popular series, the book includes a critical survey of Cukor's oeuvre to date (his most recent work at that time being MY FAIR LADY), a lengthy interview (translated from an issue of "Film Culture"), excerpts from the screenplays of LES GIRLS and HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS, a selection of critical commentary (includi...
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Ida Lupino: A Biography

By: Donati, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Lexington, The University Press of Kentucky: (c.1996)

Seller ID: 22202

ISBN: 0-8131-1895-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice and clean, virtually as new with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) Biography of the actress who, concurrently with her luminous onscreen presence from the late 1930s to the early 1970s, was also "one of Hollywood's earliest female directors, one of its most prolific, substantive, and innovative artists behind the camera." Includes a detailed filmography of her work as an actress, and as a director in both feature films and television.
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Clint Eastwood: All-American Anti-Hero

By: Downing, David, and Gary Herman

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Omnibus Press: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 9410

ISBN: 0-86001-412-6

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, minor edgewear; binding possibly just beginning to split about 2/3 through the book (no loose pages, though)]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A critical appraisal of the world's top box office star and his films"; one of the earliest books to take Clint seriously as a director. Little did we know that there was a Major American Filmmaker a-bornin'!
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My Own Story

By: Dressler, Marie, as told to Mildred Harrington

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1934

Seller ID: 23435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [solid clean book, minor wear to top and bottom edges, gift inscription (non-authorial) dated 1934 on ffep; jacket moderately edgeworn, a few small closed tears, some wrinkling/creasing at top and bottom corners of rear panel and also bottom of front panel, a bit of scuffing here and there]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published autobiography by the veteran actress who had had great success on the stage but somewhat less in the movies, despite her auspicious debut in TILLIE'S PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914). More or less retired from show business by the mid-1920s, she was lured ...
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Robert Siodmak: El Maestro del Cine Negro

By: Dumont, Hervé

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Madrid/San Sebastián, Filmoteca Española / Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián: 1987

Seller ID: 24632

ISBN: 8486877245

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[moderate edge- and surface-wear to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Extensive survey of the career of film director Robert Siodmak, including his early work in Germany, the films he made in France ((1933-1939) after fleeing the Nazis, his Hollywood career from 1940-1952, and finally his return to Europe. It's his American films that stand out, especially his films noir (PHANTOM LADY, THE KILLERS, CRISS CROSS, and others). PLEASE NOTE that the text of this book is entirely in Spanish, and would appear to be a translation of a book first published in France in 1981, which has not to my kn...
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The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper [SIGNED]

By: Dunne, Dominick

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: (c.1999)

Seller ID: 20615

ISBN: 0-609-60388-4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is flawless; jacket has only a trace of surface wear, extremely minor crimping along top edge; the jacket also bears a small "Signed at Book Soup" sticker on the front panel, removable upon request without a trace]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page. A fascinating look at the private lives of jet-setting celebrities of a certain time and place (mostly Beverly Hills and Hollywood), by an author who made a pretty decent career for himself by just being the most observant and insightful (if sometimes also insufferable) fly on the wall. And he had access to s...
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Take Two: A Life in Movies and Politics [SIGNED]

By: Dunne, Philip

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: (c.1980

Seller ID: 23429

ISBN: 0070183066

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[lovely clean copy with no discernible wear apart from a tiny bump to the bottom front corner; jackets shows minor wear along top and bottom edges and at spine ends]. (B&W photographs) Warmly INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; the inscription is to noted TV producer-director Fletcher Markle and his wife, and bears Markle's small "Ex Libris" bookplate on the ffep. Dunne, who spent the majority of his career as a screenwriter/director/producer at Twentieth Century-Fox, discusses not just his film career but also his involvement with political matters, especially with regard...
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Franju

By: Durgnat, Raymond

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1968

Seller ID: 25503

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

[a nice tight copy, moderate edgewear to covers]. (Movie Paperbacks) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Typically dense and impressionistic Durgnatian exegesis of the films of French filmmaker Georges Franju, director of EYES WITHOUT A FACE and JUDEX, analyzing "Franju's savagely beautiful images and [tracing] their artistic antecedents."
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Category: Cinema: Biography