[nice tight clean copy, essentially as-new with just minor edgewear to covers]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) "This collection of essays presents the first truly comprehensive image of a problematic filmmaker whose life and oeuvre compellingly reflect both the turbulent character of recent German history as well as the fate of artistic producers in the transcultural machinery of the modern world." Includes a complete filmography and an extensive bibliography. View More...
[no discernible wear to book, previous owner's name + notation of date and place of purchase on rear pastedown; jacket shows just a touch of wear at spine ends and upper corners]. (B&W photographs) An "anecdotal biography," in which "the real is distinguished from the myth in the life of the romantic and colorful 'Inscrutible King.'" View More...
[no discernible wear to book, previous owner's signature and small bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front endpaper; jacket is edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and miscellaneous minor creasing here and there]. (Cinema One) Series (B&W photographs) Basic but still valuable survey of the great Keaton's silent film career; includes a filmography which, like the text, documents his silent films only. The previous owner's signature is that of noted film historian Rudy Behlmer. Like many "Cinema One" titles, this is much less common in the hardcover issue. View More...
(laminated boards; no dust jacket, probably as issued) [minor shelfwear only]. (B&W and color photographs) The author (1923-2007) was a minor Polish actor, but a prolific Hollywood correspondent for various Polish publications. As the book's photographs -- almost exclusively of the "here I am with Celebrity X" variety -- attest, he managed to finagle access to some of Hollywood's top names, scoring (presumably) exclusive interviews, which are presented here in POLISH TRANSLATION. His subjects included: Hal Roach, Pola Negri, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda ("Henry'ego Fondy"), Evelyn Keyes, Grego... View More...
[nice clean copy, minimal handling wear]. (B&W photographs) 16-page program book (including covers) for a tribute/retrospective to the noted producer-director, then nearing the end of his active filmmaking career. (The filmography in this publication, in fact, ends with MOMENT TO MOMENT, LeRoy's last credited film, although he himself lived for another 22 years.) Five pages are devoted to an interview conducted by Rohauer; the remainder includes a filmography, numerous photographs, a list of many of his numerous awards and honors, and a brief tribute from Jack L. Warner, who states that "... View More...
(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, spine very slightly turned, a touch of fading to spine cloth]. Anecdotal sort-of memoir by a genuine old-Hollywood character. Rosenstein learned his trade, if you can call it that, digging up dirt on movie people for renowned Hollywood gossip-monger Hedda Hopper -- and even though he'd left her employ by the time he penned this book, he dedicated it to her "because she's Miss Hollywood / unpredictable and perverse / but never, never a bore." (You could say the same thing about Jaik himself.) A fair amount of the book, in fact, is about H.H. herself, and n... View More...
[light handling wear, very slight bumping to lower right corner, short soft diagonal creasing at upper right corner of front cover, small stain on bottom edge of text block]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author on the title page, additonally INSCRIBED (generally) by him on the dedication page. "An in depth examination of such fondly remembered comic character actors as George "Gabby" Hayes, Smiley Burnette, Andy Devine, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Slim Pickens, Max Terhune, Fuzzy Knight, Pat Brady, and many other sidekicks of the B Westerns -- thirty-nine in all! Much of [the book] is t... View More...
[nice clean copy, very light bumps to a couple of corners, otherwise no significant wear; jacket shows light surface handing wear only]. (B&W photographs) "The unconventional biography he deserves," per the jacket blurb. The author's "research, particularly among members of the Mostel family, has been prodigious and the facts of Zero's life are here. But the author does not hesitate to speculate when the facts are not known, to digress when there is a good story to tell, to flash backward and forward in time, even to imagine a dialogue between Zero and Woody Allen. If he sometimes defies c... View More...
[bottom corners bumped and a bit worn, very slight bumping to top corner, light age-toning to edges of text block; jacket shows a little edgewear, tiny tears at a couple of corners of the front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. The first biography of Gable to appear after his death in 1960 at the age of 59. Signed by Author View More...
[book is nice and clean, just the teensiest bump to the top front corner; jacket shows just a trace of edgewear and minor surface-rubbing]. (B&W photographs) The story behind the production of "The Judy Garland Show," the much-anticipated 1963 TV variety show that "seemed sabotaged from the very beginning and became a single-season casualty." The book "draws upon candid interviews with nearly one hundred key people involved in the day-to-day production of the Garland series: intimates within her personal entourage, backstage crew members, BS insiders, choreographers, dancers, writers, produc... View More...
[slightly bumped at base of spine (both book and jacket), otherwise as new]. (B&W and color photographs, graphics) INSCRIBED generically and SIGNED by the author at the top of the 2nd front endpaper: "Enjoy! / Richard Schickel." An elaborately-produced, primarily visual retrospective of Clint Eastwood's career as an actor and director, through INVICTUS (2009). It's not particularly adventuresome, either in content or design -- rather than a "Films of" approach, you might say this is a "Pictures of" volume, with virtually every one of Eastwood's feature films (good, bad, ugly, or indifferent)... View More...
[nice clean book, very slight scrunching to a couple of lower page corners, no other significant blemishes; jacket just a teensy bit scuffed]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Terrific biography (the first to tackle this filmmaker's life and often-controversial films), with insightful focus "on the parallel between the prominent cinematic themes and their repeated occurrence in Friedkin's real life." Signed by Author View More...
[nice as-new book, with no discernible wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "The Story of Hollywood's Hottest Writer Who Rode Route 66, Mastered Disaster Films, and Lived His Life Like It Was a Movie." Signed by Author View More...
[nice clean copy with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (Movie Icons) Series (B&W and color photographs) There are certainly better (and definitely bigger) books about Steve McQueen than this small-format tome (6"x8"), but if you're in search of a kind of "essence of McQueen," you couldn't do much better. There's an intelligent introductory essay, "Steve McQueen: King of Cool," by Alain Silver, followed by a "Visual Filmography," which takes up the heart of the book and presents stills from all his films (all credited to The Kobal Collection, and beautifully reproduced in the bes... View More...
[light shelfwear, top corners bumped; jacket a bit scuffed (mostly on rear panel), with minor edgewear]. (B&W photographs) Intelligent, well-researched biography of the silent-screen matinee idol, "the first Latin American performer to become a Hollywood superstar," whose professional legacy has unfortunately been obscured by the sensational circumstances of his tragic murder in 1968, and the consequent revelation of his homosexuality, which had been carefully concealed from the public throughout his career. ****NOTE that an additional shipping fee will be requested for international shippin... View More...
[nice tight copy, apparently unread, with just a couple of tiny scuff marks on front cover and spine; jacket slightly worn along top edge, tiny puncture-tear near top front hinge, another pinpoint-puncture about mid-front-hinge]. (B&W photographs) Biography of the "hell-raising, stunt-riding hero for the sixties" who (in the author's telling) was "the archetypal bad boy." **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will apply for international shipping of this moderately heavy book, or for Priority Mail service to U.S. destinations. If this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote... View More...
[a good solid book, very slight wear to extremities, one-time owner's signature on ffep; jacket is in very nice shape, blemished only by a smudge-line about three inches long at the lower left of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) Taylor's entertaining, myth-making biography of The Great Man, the first to appear after Fields's death on Christmas Day of 1946, and for many years the standard work on the comedian -- and, unfortunately, the source of a some misinformation as well. James Curtis, author of the best biography of Fields to date (published in 2003), explains how Taylor had some signi... View More...
[a good solid book, some foxing to all edges of the text block but no significant wear; jacket has some visible wear to the upper extremities, a couple of tiny tears along the bottom edge, and a half-inch ragged closed tear at the top rear hinge; there is also some internal discoloration to the jacket, with some visible bleed-through on the flaps (but not the exterior panels)]. (B&W photographs) Taylor's entertaining, myth-making biography of The Great Man, the first to appear after Fields's death on Christmas Day of 1946, and for many years the standard work on the comedian -- and, unfortunat... View More...
[lovely, as-new copy, with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. INSCRIBED to a friend and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. actor. "Drawing from hundreds of interviews and exhaustive research, the author reveals shocking new details about the actor's early life. [He] traces McQueen's steps from his harrowing and painful childhood, through his glittering career, to the final days of his heroic battle with cancer." This is essentially a complete rewrite of the author's earlier (1994) biography of McQueen; as he explains in a prefatory note, his relative youth and inexperie... View More...
[minimal shelfwear, a tiny trace of foxing to top of text block; jacket lightly rubbed, minor edgewear, soft vertical crease at bottom of front panel]. (B&W photographs) "A complete account of Howard Hughes's career as a film mogul," a spotty track record that includes such classics as HELL'S ANGELS, SCARFACE and THE OUTLAW (all of which are discussed at some length) and such turkeys as MAD WEDNESDAY (aka THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK), VENDETTA and THE CONQUEROR. (Come to think of it, I should have included THE OUTLAW with the turkeys, too.) About a third of the book is devoted to Hu... View More...
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