[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 ... View More...
[a very nice copy, virtually as-new; one tiny blemish on rear cover; jacket has a touch of wear at the spine ends]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("for _____ from") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Autobiography of the actor, from his early stage, radio and film collaborations with Orson Welles through his career as a Hollywood leading man opposite the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn and others. "Sensitive to his own motivations, frank about his marriages, and warmly revealing about himself and his friends, Cotten has written much more than the usual fil... View More...
[nice copy, minimal handling wear, just a touch of soiling to the bottom edge]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) Biography of the English-born director of FRANKENSTEIN, THE OLD DARK HOUSE, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and other such delights. View More...
(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... View More...
[some age-toning at edges, light soiling to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) 20-page booklet (including covers), issued in conjunction with a Mary Pickford film series -- the first such retrospective of her work, I believe -- presented by the American Film Institute, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, in conjunction with the Mary Pickford Foundation. In addition to the Appreciation, it also includes a one-page essay on Pickford's Biograph shorts, and notes on nine feature films: THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL (1917); REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM (1917); STELLA ... View More...
[nice tight clean book, no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Filmmakers, No. 66) Series (B&W photographs) "A comprehensive survey of the career of one of Hollywood's most oustanding composers of film music, [which] provides numerous perspectives, ranging from the personal to the critical, about one of the most important musical figures of the twentieth century. The bulk of the book consists of a transcript of the American Film Institute's oral history interview with Friedhofer himself, conducted by Irene Kahn Atkins in 1974. The book also contains: an introduction by Tony Thomas; ... View More...
[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! View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [tiny stain at bottom edge of front cover, otherwise as new]. (Twayne's Filmmakers Series) Series (B&W photographs) Career study of the great director/producer/screenwriter, the creator of ALL ABOUT EVE and numerous other films. Includes: chronology; selected bibliography; filmography. View More...
[slight bumping to corners of rear cover, otherwise nice and clean, virtually as-new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "In this personal and perceptive book, [the author] vividly chronicles the history of a particularly turbulent era in American political life while examining his own life before and after the events universally called the witch hunts. He details his brief membership in the Communist Party of America, explaining his initial commitment to what he perceived as communist ideals of civil liberties, economic justice, and antifascism, followed by his eventual disillusionment with the par... View More...
[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 (includin... View More...
(price-clipped) [no significant wear to either book or jacket, the latter downgraded only because of the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED boldly (no inscription) by the author on the front endpaper. "With the siimple power and astonishing candor that made his 1988 autobiography a number one international bestseller, [the author] now shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke." Signed by Author View More...
[faint handling wear only]. Trade PB "Everyone thought they knew Errol Flynn, but they didn't. He was a complicated man who camouflaged his true self from the outside world and only through some of his own writing could one glean the type of person he really was and what he had hoped to be. ... He was a man marred by an ugly childhood of neglect and abandonment, who rose out of sheer fortitude of his character to become one of the great stars of the golden age. This book is a probing and extensively researched attempt to explore the people, events and factors that made Errol Flynn who he was... View More...
(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 ... View More...
[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... View More...
[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. View More...
[slight bumping to upper corners, minor discoloration in gutters and on pp.4/5 (from old bookmark, probably), no other significant wear; jacket shows a bit of wear along top and bottom edges, some surface abrasions along spine, minor paper loss at top of spine, tiny chip at top edge of front panel]. (Arts Library) Series (B&W photographs and drawings) A collection of 20 essays, articles and letters written by the great Russian director and theoretician in the 1930s and 1940s. Part One, "About Myself and My Films," is largely autobiographical; Part Two, "Problems of Film Direction," is primari... View More...
[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... View More...
[a nice clean book with no discernible wear; jacket has just a touch of wear along the top edge]. (B&W photographs) "The first full-length, authoritative account of the iconic actor's life that reaches beyond the Hollywood scandal sheet reporting from earlier books, and provides a full appreciation of the man and his career." A review copy, with the publisher's press release laid in. **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will be requested for international shipping of this moderately heavy book, or for Priority Mail service to U.S. addresses. If this concerns you, please contact us for... View More...
(laminated boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [beautiful condition, essentially as-new but for a tiny bump at the top of the spine]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED on the title page: "For / Rudy Behlmer -- / Another Flynn Buff! / Best to You" and SIGNED by the editor; also dated July 25, 1985, in his hand. Fascinating (if ultimately enigmatic) chronicle of the association between Flynn and Dr. Erben, and of their joint globe-hopping during the years chronicled -- in particular, to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Erben is a controversial figure in Flynn's life -- biographer Charles High... View More...
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