(price-clipped) [a little wear to cloth at spine ends, age-toning to page edges, small bookseller's stamp on front pastedown; jacket a bit on the tattered side, small tears at most corners, a bit of paper loss at spine ends, chipping to edges of rear panel] (B&W photographs) Biography of Al Jolson by his older brother, who had been a vaudeville headliner himself, back in the day. View More...
[nice copy, as-new but for a tiny red mark on the top edge (NOT a remainder mark)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For __________ / With hopes for Peace, / love & laughter -- ") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Memoir by the veteran film and television comedy writer. Signed by Author View More...
[very light handling wear only; virtually as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The author "explains the forces behind Hitchcock's changing critical fortunes, and shows how Hitchcock's legacy and reputation shed light on the way reputations of contemporary directors -- particularly Brian De Palma and Clint Eastwood -- are made." View More...
[nice tight clean copy, very slight browning to page edges; jacket a bit rubbed, minor wear at edges and extremities]. (B&W photographs) Biography of director/writer Billy Wilder, originally published in Germany in 1992; apparently there has not been an English-language edition. Text in Italian. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [very slight bump to the bottom front corner, otherwise virtually as new]. (A Reference Publication in Film) Series (B&W photo frontispiece) Comphensive reference guide to Wyler's life and work, divided into the following sections: Biographical Background and Critical Survey; The Films (including synopses, full credits and notes); Writings about Wyler, 1935-79; Writings by Wyler; Archival Sources; Film Distributors. Once of the scarcer volumes in this valuable series. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean tight copy, with just a trace of scraping to the gilt spine lettering & border, slight bumping to top corners, small bookstore stamp on ffep]. (Twayne's Theatrical Arts Series) Series (B&W photographs) Critical survey of the work of ths important French New Wave director, featuring in-depth treatment of all his films from HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) through PROVIDENCE (1977). (Other prominent titles include LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD and MURIEL.) He continued to make films after this book was published, of course (up until his death in 2014), but it's proba... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [very slight wear to extremities, "property of" stamp on ffep (but no name filled in)]. (Twayne's Theatrical Arts Series) Series (B&W photographs) Career study of the director of IN A LONELY PLACE, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, BIGGER THAN LIFE, JOHNNY GUITAR and other such fare. Includes: chronology, selected bibliography; filmography. View More...
(no dust jacket) [nice clean copy with minor shelfwear only]. (B&W photographs) Very frank memoir by the one-time "Peekaboo Girl," who was a pretty big deal throughout the 1940s, but whose career collapsed after she left Paramount in 1948 (interestingly, not unlike that of writer-director Preston Sturges, who had given her one of her best early roles in SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS). By the time her autobiography appeared, she'd gone through several worlds of hurt, including bankruptcy, trouble with the IRS, a couple of divorces, various arrests for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and a gene... View More...
[solid, clean copy, with only minor shelfwear to book; jacket has quite a bit of edgewear, with various small nicks and tears, tiny bits of paper loss at several corners, a ragged tear at top left corner of front panel (internally tape-repaired) with much associated creasing]. (B&W photographs) Basically an extended interview with director George Cukor, which began life as an American Film Institute oral history project; unlike some of those interviews, this one benefits from the participation of an intelligent, well-informed interviewer (who also happened to be a pretty terrific writer himsel... View More...
[lovely, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to book; jacket blemished only by a very short diagonal crease at bottom corner of rear flap]. (Filmmakers, No. 36) Series (B&W photographs) Memoir by a veteran producer who "describes his development as a production executive and how the associate producer helped make the famed studio system work." Lewis worked at RKO and M-G-M, but "hit his stride at Warner Bros., where, between 1937 and 1942, he produced twelve films with such popular stars as James Cagney (EACH DAWN I DIE), Humphrey Bogart (IT ALL CAME TRUE), Bette Davis (DARK VICTORY), Rona... View More...
(price-clipped) [no significant wear to book, just the usual age-toning to edges of text block (typical of Faber & Faber books in this period); the jacket is very nice, unblemished except for the price-clipping]. (B&W photographs) "Few major figures in cinema history have remained as personally and professionally enigmatic as Emeric Pressburger. A Hungarian Jew who lived and worked in half a dozen European countries before arriving in Britain in 1935, Pressburger's reputation rests on the series of strikingly original films he made in collaboration with Michael Powell under the banner of The... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [virtually as new with no discernible wear, just a small bookstore rubber-stamp at bottom of ffep]. (Twayne's Theatrical Arts Series) Series (B&W photographs) Career study of the great American director or IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and other classics. Includes: chronology, selected bibliography; filmography. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [light scrape mark near bottom of front cover, diagonal scrape on inside front cover, light soiling to front cover and edges of text block]. (A Reference Publication in Film) Series (B&W photo frontispiece) Comphensive reference guide to Visconti's life and work, divided into the following sections: Biographical Background; Critical Survey; The Films (including synopses, full credits and notes); Writings about Lubitsch; Writings by Visconti; Interviews with Visconti; Scripts, Screenplays, Treatments, Unfilmed Scripts, Libretti; Other Works (Theatre, Opera, Ballet);... View More...
[as new, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "The dramatic rise and fall of the actor who won immortality as the giggling Renfield of 'Dracula' and the sadistic hunchbank of 'Frankenstein.' Authorized by Dwight's son Dwight David, the book includes detailed information of Frye's early stage work, his Broadway triumphs, and his ghoulish typecasting in Hollywood -- which ironically assured him a posthumous cult status among horror film disciples." [PRINTING NOTE: The last page bears the information "Made in the USA / Lexington, KY / 20 March 2011"; in other wor... View More...
[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear to book itself; jacket shows a bit of wear at bottom corners, modest surface rubbing]. (B&W photographs) A very thorough "films of" treatment of the great comedy duo's film work, from beginning (1926) to end (1950) -- published, as noted in the introduction, with the blessing and full cooperation of Hal Roach. Although with the recent publication of Randy Skretvedt's monumental work "Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies," this volume has had to relinquish its jacket-blurb claim to be "the definitive journey through the enchanting world of Stan Lau... View More...
[very slight curling to front cover, very slight diagonal bending at upper corner of the first few pages; otherwise as new]. Trade PB (B&W photographs, facsimiles) A dual biography of "two handsome brothers from a small town in Illinois who settled in Hollywood, became movie stars, were praised by critics, appeared headed for major stardom, married daughters of famous men, and ran in high social circles. But like all soap operas, their lives were filled with problems and crises -- a domineering mother, marital ordeals, affairs, divorces (six in all), financial difficulties, professional fail... View More...
[both book and jacket show only light handling wear]. (B&W photographs, color reproductions) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Meticulously-researched chronicle of the life and career of Acord (1890-1931), a former rodeo performer who became a Western movie star in the silent era. The book provides "an account of [his] involvement in Westerns from his early days with the Selig Polyscope and Bison studios; to his popular Buck Parvin films with the Flying A Studio in Santa Barbara; to his success at Carl Laemmle's Universal City; to his downfall and brief stay on Poverty Row; ... View More...
[book is in perfect condition, jacket likewise but for one tiny closed tear at the top front hinge; slipcase is also Fine, still encased in publisher's shrinkwrap except for where it was opened to permit extraction of the book]. (B&W and color photographs) Lavishly-produced and heavily-illustrated chronicle of the last three years of the iconic actor's life (1977-1980), as recounted by his third and last wife, who also took the vast majority of the hundreds of photos in the book. There wasn't a lot of movie-making going on during that period -- only McQueen's last two films, TOM HORN and THE... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [very slight bump to the top front corner, otherwise virtually as new]. (A Reference Publication in Film) Series Comphensive reference guide to Kazan's life and work, divided into the following sections: Biographical Background; Critical Survey; The Films (including synopses, full credits and notes); Writings about Kazan, 1938-1983; Reviews and References; Writings, Performances, and Other Film-Related Activity; Archival Sources; Film Distributors. Kazan directed his last film, THE LAST TYCOON, nearly a decade before this book appeared. View More...
[minor wear and a touch of soiling at the base of the spine; the jacket has tiny tears and very slight paper loss at several corners, a small nick and some associated creasing at the bottom of the front panel, and some wrinkling/creasing along the top edge of the rear panel (still looks pretty good in new mylar cover)]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For / _____ ___ / With all good wishes") and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Reminiscences by the actress who was the best-known on-screen flapper of her era. Moore "grew up with the movies, and in this wonderfully gossipy memoir she... View More...
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