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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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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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Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 1915-1948

By: Dwyer, Ruth Anne

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lanham MD/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc.: [1997] (c.1996)

Seller ID: 24706

ISBN: 0810827093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[lovely, as-new copy, only blemish being a tiny wrinkle in the jacket at the top left-hand corner of the front panel; a review copy, with the publisher's information sheet laid in]. (Filmmakers, no. 38) Series (B&W photographs) Biography and critical study of this "master director of sophisticated silent comedy," tracing his career from his early days with Mack Sennett through his work with Buster Keaton and at Paramount in 1920s, and his successful transition to sound.
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The Other Side of Oz [SIGNED]

By: Ebsen, Buddy; edited by Stephen Cox

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Newport Beach CA, Donovan Publishing: (c.1993)

Seller ID: 16920

ISBN: 1-880538-08-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a tight, crisp, as-new copy]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page: "To ________ -- / With many thanks / Buddy & Dorothy Ebsen" (in Buddy's hand). Autobiography of the erstwhile song-and-dance man, sidekick and comic foil, who was a little bit too gangly and goofy-looking to ever achieve major stardom, but is nonetheless etched forever in memory (well, my memory, anyway) as "Uncle Jed" on "The Beverly Hillbillies." Quite a bit is made of his having lost the role of the Tin Man in THE WIZARD OF OZ, but honestly it doesn't seem to have hurt his car...
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Hot Toddy: The True Story of Hollywood's Most Sensational Murder

By: Edmonds, Andy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company: (c.1989)

Seller ID: 15746

ISBN: 0-688-08061-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean copy, just the slightest shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows extremely light browning/discoloration to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Purports to "finger the killer" responsible for the 1935 murder of popular screen comedienne Thelma Todd; thoroughly researched, yet written more like a crime novel (including lots of speculative dialogue) than a scholarly work. (I'm not sayin' that's a bad thing.) Includes a complete list of Todd's films.
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Ramon Novarro: A Biography of the Silent Film Idol, 1899-1968; With a Filmography

By: Ellenberger, Allan R.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc.: (c.19990

Seller ID: 24458

ISBN: 0786400994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice tight clean copy, with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) The subtitle says it all.
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We Thought We Could Do Anything: The Life of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron

By: Ephron, Henry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: (c.1977)

Seller ID: 24653

ISBN: 0393075109

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a touch of spotting to edges of text block, no significant wear; jacket shows only light surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Like the subtitle says: a memoir of by one-half of one of Hollywood's great husband-and-wife screenwriting teams (the author's other half having predeceased him). Their daughter, Nora Ephron, reminisces warmly about her mother in the book's Epilogue -- although later on the truth emerged (acknowledged quite openly by Nora and her sisters) about Henry and Phoebe's troubled marriage, and exposed the book as something of a whitewash. A 2013 Salon article, which appeared aft...
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Sam Peckinpah: Master of Violence; Being the Account of the Making of a Movie and Other Sundry Things

By: Evans, Max

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Vermillion SD, Dakota Press / University of South Dakota: 1972

Seller ID: 24523

ISBN: 0882490117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[minor wear to extremities, long gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket has a few tiny nicks and shallow chipping along top edge, and some wiseacre once progressively "marked down" the price on the front flap from its original amount, progressively to 49 cents, finally ending up with "Take it!"]. (B&W photographs) The noted Western novelist and sometime screenwriter writes "a man's book," focusing on his long friendship with the film director, and more specifically on the production of Peckinpah's 1970 film THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (in which Evans himself al...
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Botticelli in Hollywood: The Films of Albert Lewin

By: Felleman, Susan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: (c.1997)

Seller ID: 24039

ISBN: 0805716254

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[small black smudge on the fore-edge, otherwise an as-new book, with a slight horizontal bend at the top of the rear cover]. (Twayne's Filmmakers Series) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) "A long-overdue look at the remarkable career of Albert Lewin, a Hollywood original, who wrote and directed six exotic and elegant feature films in the 1940s and 1950s: The Moon and Sixpence, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Saadia, and The Living Idol. As one of the first screenwriter-directors [?!], Lewin incorporated not only visual art but ...
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Category: Cinema: Biography