Category: Cinema: Biography

William A. Wellman

By: Thompson, Frank T.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Metuchen NJ/London, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : 1983

Seller ID: 23422

ISBN-13: 9780810815940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice tight copy, very light handling wear, a couple of diagonally-creased top page corners]. (Filmmakers, no. 4) Series (B&W photographs) The first book-length critical study of the famously hard-boiled director of WINGS, THE PUBLIC ENEMY, BEAU GESTE, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, THE STORY OF G.I. JOE, etc. Foreword by Barbara Stanwyck, who starred in five of Wellman's films.
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Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles [SIGNED]

By: Thomson, David

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1996

Seller ID: 24483

ISBN-13: 9780679418344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice attractive copy, just the teensiest bit of shelfwear to book; jacket similarly nice, soft vertical crease and short corner crease in front flap, minor external handling wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED simply ("To ________") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. The "story" in the subtitle was quite deliberately chosen by the author, one of our finest writers on film, who has taken a novelistic approach to Welles's life and who has the writing chops to pull it off, producing a biography that "summons up the man and the artist and does justice to the genius a...
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Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes: A Life and a Story [SIGNED]

By: Thomson, David

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books : 1988

Seller ID: 9044

ISBN-13: 9780394757568

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[tight, bright copy with very faint wear to front cover]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("to _________" only) and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Signed by Author
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Please Don't Hate Me

By: Tiomkin, Dimitri, and Prosper Buranelli

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1959

Seller ID: 25973

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [good sound copy, upper corners bumped, spine cloth a bit faded, light age-toning to edges of text block]. (B&W photographs) Hard-to-find memoir -- "the gay confessions of an unpredictable musician" -- by the great Hollywood composer, who scored such classics as LOST HORIZON, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, DUEL IN THE SUN, GIANT, RIO BRAVO, THE GUNS OF NAVARONE, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and RED RIVER.
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My Husband, My Friend

By: Toffel, Neile McQueen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum : 1986

Seller ID: 26117

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[a nice clean copy, virtually as-new, with modest bumping to the lower corners; the jacket is in nearly perfect condition, with just a touch of wrinkling at the spine ends]. Memoir by Steve McQueen's first wife (herself a dancer and singer under her professional name, Neile Adams), who was with the actor from 1956 until their divorce in 1972 -- and beyond. Per the jacket blurb: "In the years following their separation and divorce and his subsequent remarriages -- including a highly publicized marriage to Ali MacGraw -- Neile shared his bed and heard his confidences. She knew him as no one e...
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Close Up: The Contract Director

By: Tuska, Jon, ed.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Metuchen NJ, The Scarecrow Press, Inc. : 1976

Seller ID: 23405

ISBN-13: 9780810809611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [good solid copy, light shelfwear, internally clean, boards very slightly bowed, small bookseller's label (Cinemabilia) on rear pastedown]. (B&W photographs) Career articles, usually incorporating interviews, with the following Hollywood directors: Walter Lang, H. Bruce Humberstone, William Dieterle, Joseph Kane, William Witney, Lesley Selander, Yakima Canutt, Lewis Milestone, Edward Dmytryk, and Howard Hawks. Each article is followed by a filmography of the director's films. Full name and film title index.
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"Movies Were Always Magical": Interviews with 19 Actors, Directors, and Producers from the Hollywood of the 1930s through the 1950s

By: Verswijver, Leo

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company, Inc. : (c.2003)

Seller ID: 23704

ISBN-13: 9780786411290

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[a little curling to the front cover, otherwise nice and clean with just minimal handling wear]. Trade PB (B&W photographs) The interviewees: actors Pat Boone, Jeff Corey, Beverly Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Jane Greer, Janet Leigh, Joan Leslie, Sheree North, Janis Paige, Luise Rainer, Paula Raymond, John Saxon, Jane Withers, and Jane Wyatt; producers/directors Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Stanley Kramer, Vincent Sherman, Robert Wise, and Fred Zinnemann. The interviews, conducted by the author (a Belgian schoolteacher), aren't presented in Q&A-transcript form, but rather as often-lengthy quotes dropped ...
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Fun in a Chinese Laundry [SIGNED]

By: von Sternberg, Josef

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : (c.1965)

Seller ID: 24315

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[nice tight clean copy, one tiny mark on front cover, bookplate of previous owner (the inscribee) and old bookseller's label (Larry Edmunds Bookshop) on front pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along top edge and at ends of spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author, the great (and famously cranky) film director, on the half-title page. An idiosyncratic and often acerbically funny autobiography by the "discoverer" of Marlene Dietrich, with whom he made a string of visually stunning films in the early-to-mid 1930s, beginning with THE BLUE ANGEL and concluding with THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN. (Hm...
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Pieces of My Heart: An Autobiography [SIGNED]

By: Wagner, Robert J., with Scott Eyman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Entertainment : (c.2008)

Seller ID: 26111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight copy, apparently unread, with no discernible wear; jacket is similarly nice, blemished only by a tiny puncture-tear at the left edge of the front panel near the top, and some very minor edgewear along the top edge]. (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED fulsomely and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For my friend ____ -- / with my best regards / yours -- always / Robert Wagner / R.J." Signed by Author
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Hollywood Adventures: The Gregory Walcott Story [with accompanying letter from author]

By: Walcott, Gregory

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Wilson NC, The Wilson Daily Times : (c.2003)

Seller ID: 24385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[both book and jacket are as-new, with no discernible wear or blemishes]. (B&W photographs) Anecdotal memoir by a veteran movie and TV character actor, whose claim to cinematic immortality rests on his starring role in Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, legendarily "the worst film ever made." Walcott devotes a chapter -- a whole four pages! -- to the making of PLAN 9, which doesn't sound like much until you consider that almost all the other chapters in the book are even shorter (two pages is the average). In fact, even calling them "chapters" seems a bit much: about half of th...
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Hollywood Honors Elia Kazan, Filmmaker & Informer

By: Walsh, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Oak Park MI, Mehring Books, Inc. : (c.1999)

Seller ID: 12631

ISBN-13: 9780929087986

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Fine

[nice clean copy, no discernible wear]. 40-page booklet (including covers; text is 30 pages, with ads taking up the rest of the space), issued to protest the presentation of an honorary Academy Award to Elia Kazan in 1999. Kazan, whose gifts as a filmmaker were and are unquestioned, had nonetheless long been a political lightning rod due to his decision to "inform" on former Communist Party colleagues during the McCarthy Era. The Academy's decision to bestow the award on Kazan proved, if nothing else, that passions still run deep on this issue, even after nearly half a century.
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Elizabeth Taylor

By: Waterbury, Ruth

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century : (c.1964)

Seller ID: 14447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear, spine very slightly turned; jacket shows a little surface wear, additional slight bumping/wear around top of spine]. (B&W photographs) One of the first reasonably serious biographies of La Liz, by a well-connected Hollywood journalist -- a one-time editor of Photoplay Magazine, who wound up on the staff of the famous (and dreaded) columnist Louella Parsons. This book (it sez here) was "based on [her] long acquaintance with the star, dating back to her film debut -- at the age of ten -- in LASSIE COME HOME. The result is an intimate, informed, yet always ...
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Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry

By: Watkins, Mel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books : (c.2005)

Seller ID: 20426

ISBN-13: 9780375423826

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[beautiful clean copy, no discernible wear to book at all; jacket shows only light surface handling wear]. (B&W photographs) The first full-scale biography of the first African-American movie star, whose talents were channeled by the narrow and essentially racist world-view of the Hollywood mainstream cinema into comic portrayals of lazy, shiftless black men -- stereotypical roles of the worst sort, which he filled with such brilliance that his very name became a kind of shorthand for the stereotype itself. Ironically, his on-screen subserviance made him an off-screen millionaire, "the hi...
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Don't Look at the Camera

By: Watt, Harry

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press : (c.1974)

Seller ID: 22048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[light foxing to top of text block, otherwise a very nice copy with no discernible wear; jacket just a teensy bit rubbed, hardly noticeable under new jacket protector]. Memoir by the pioneering British documentary filmmaker, who began his career working for Robert Flaherty on MAN OF ARAN and John Grierson at the Empire Marketing Board, and went on to make such classic documentaries as NIGHT MAIL and TARGET FOR TONIGHT, as well as a handful of dramatic feature films (most notably THE OVERLANDERS).
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A Short Time for Insanity: An Autobiography

By: Wellman, William A.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc. : (c.1974)

Seller ID: 25731

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[a solid, clean copy, with just a touch of shelfwear to the lower extremities; jacket lightly rubbed, with one tiny nick at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) "From the perspective of a hospital bed, through a drug-induced haze, Wellman's memory makes connections between events in life that his rational mind would never perceive." Further proof that they didn't call him "Wild Bill" for nothing. The best thing possible, before reading this book, would be to take a look at the filmed interview with Wellman done by Richard Schickel for the PBS series "The Men Who Made the Movies," just to get a f...
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My Days With Errol Flynn: the Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles

By: Wiles, Buster, with William Donati

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA, Roundtable Publishing, Inc. : 1988

Seller ID: 25900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[very nice copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket just a touch rubbed at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Buster Wiles met Errol Flynn on the set of CAPTAIN BLOOD in 1935, and was his stunt double and good buddy for many years. "In the early Forties, [he] lived at Flynn's vast estate in the Santa Monica Mountains, Mulholland Farm, where the two men shared manyh wild times, including the dismal experience of Flynn's famous trial [for] statutory rape in 1943." Approximately the last 60 pages of this book consists of an appendix, "The Flynn Controversy," in which co-author Donati refutes th...
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In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase: Moviemaking Remembered by the Guy at the Door

By: Witney, William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Jefferson NC/London, McFarland & Company : (c.1996)

Seller ID: 25728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the veteran film director, who worked almost exclusively in serials and B-westerns from the 1930s well into the 1950s, then transitioned seamlessly into one of the busiest directors of filmed TV shows of the late 1950s and 1960s.
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Being Naked Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway

By: Woods, Alan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Manchester (U.K.), Manchester University Press : 1996

Seller ID: 23665

ISBN-13: 9780719047725

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[virtually as-new, with just a touch of soiling to the bottom edge]. Trade PB (B&W and color photographs) "Peter Greenaway has an international reputation as one of the most innovative, stylish and intelligent of contemporary film-makers. His eight feature films, from The Draughtsman's Contract to The Pillow Book, have variously, and sometimes simultaneously, prompted controversy, infamy, acclaim and delight. However, Greenaway is an artist whose work also includes painting; collage; experimental TV; the novel/opera Rosa; and numerous exhibitions/installations. [This book] explores the comp...
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Accidentally on Purpose: An Autobiography [SIGNED]

By: York, Michael

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : (c.1991)

Seller ID: 26200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dj

[a beautiful, as-new copy, with no discernible wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED "For ____ / with thanks for the / great photographs + / my best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Memoir by the star of CABARET, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, ACCIDENT, and many other films. Signed by Author
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Marvin: The Story of Lee Marvin [SIGNED]

By: Zec, Donald

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, New English Library : 1979

Seller ID: 26586

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj

[no significant wear to book, just a touch of age-toning to the edges of the text block; the jacket is flawless]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED "For dear Dana & Cubby" and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Biography of the actor who, despite his onscreen image as "the definitive bully," was in fact "a gloriously funny actor, a supreme professional, praised by every director who has had the guts to work with him." The inscribees of this copy were producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and his wife, and laid in at the back of the book is also a typed note to them from the author, expressi...
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Category: Cinema: Biography