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Chaplin

By: Thursh, Joan, ed.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Dell Publishing Co.: (c.1972)

Seller ID: 9713

ISBN: NO

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[nice copy, minor edgewear, slight soiling/scuffing to rear cover]. (B&W photographs) Special one-shot magazine-format tribute to Charles Chaplin, issued to coincide with and celebrate "His Triumphant Return to the U.S.--Loved and Admired by All," the occasion being his receipt of an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- the first time he had set foot in the U.S. since his re-entry permit was revoked in 1952 (while he was on a European vacation) at the height of the McCarthy Era.
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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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Lana -- the Lady, the Legend, the Truth [SIGNED association copy]

By: Turner, Lana

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton, Inc.: (c.1982)

Seller ID: 18210

ISBN: 052524106X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice solid book with minimal shelfwear; jacket similarly nice, with just a touch of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("For Bill - / whose dear friendship / over so many years. / I give love & gratitude") and SIGNED ("Lana") on the ffep; additionaly dated in her hand Nov. 23, 1984; the inscribee was legendary M-G-M makeup wizard William Tuttle, who probably did as much as anybody to make her look gorgeous on-screen, given that she was under contract to the studio from the very beginning of her career (in 1937) until they let her go nearly twenty years later. A great...
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Chaplin: Last of the Clowns

By: Tyler, Parker

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The Vanguard Press, Inc.: (c.1948)

Seller ID: 21115

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[no significant wear to book, bookplate on ffep; jacket a little edgeworn, a few tiny scuff marks on front panel, 1-1/4" closed tear at top of rear panel, a little fading to spine]. (B&W photographs) "Here in penetrating, sensitive prose is the first comprehensive study of the great comedian's art. If incidentally it indicates facets of Chaplin as a man, it is always as the man who has fallen in love with a dream, and somehow always behaved -- no matter how contradictorily -- in accordance with that dream." (I think we need Myra Breckinridge to parse that statement for us!) Thi...
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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: 0786411295

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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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: 0-929087-98-4

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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Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director

By: Walsh, Raoul

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1974

Seller ID: 19773

ISBN: 0-374-14553-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [spine a little turned, very slight fading to cloth along top edge; jacket a bit dog-eared at top of spine, moderate soiling to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) Rip-roaring memoir by the veteran director who began his career as an actor in the silent days (he played John Wilkes Booth in D.W. Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION), but soon established himself as one of those "man's man" directors that Hollywood used to specialize in. (His career as an actor, which continued into the 1920s, was derailed when he lost his right eye in a freak car accident on location in Arizona...
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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 alw...
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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: 0-375-42382-6

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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Tarzan, My Father

By: Weissmuller, Johnny Jr., with William Reed and W. Craig Reed

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, ECW Press: (c.2002)

Seller ID: 24646

ISBN: 1550225227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is clean and tight, with no discernible wear; jacket shows the teensiest bit of surface wear]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by Weissmuller's only son, who tells his father's "own version of his experiences at the hands of the major Hollywood studios," as well as his own "inside perspective on his father's life and career [including] interviews with his father's former wives, costars, and celebrity friends, recollections of conversations with his father over the years," etc., all adding up to "a sensitive but unsentimental portrayal of the man who was Tarzan to movie fans...
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A Short Time for Insanity: An Autobiography [SIGNED]

By: Wellman, William A.

Price: $200.00

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

Seller ID: 18074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[moderately worn copy, some light soiling and faint foxing to page edges; jacket stained internally along top edge, but this is not visible in any way from the exterior, which shows only a bit of wear at the corners and some scuffing/rubbing to the surface]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the author (signature only; no inscription) on the half-title page. "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" ...
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Arriving in Hollywood: Letters 1929

By: Whale, James

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara CA, Santa Teresa Press: 1989

Seller ID: 20824

ISBN: 0-94166-03-2

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[virtually as new, very slight edgewear, a bit of rustiness to staples]. Reprints three letters written by the noted director of JOURNEY'S END, FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN, etc., shortly after his arrival in Hollywood from England. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by co-editor Jim Pepper on the title page. Printing limited to 300 copies. Signed by Editor
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Howard Hawks [SIGNED by Hawks]

By: Wood, Robin

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company Inc.: 1968

Seller ID: 21107

ISBN: NO

Binding: Softcover Softcover

Condition: Good

[covers are edgeworn, especially along front hinge, which is somewhat deterioriated, with the front cover just beginning to separate from the spine at the bottom; the binding itself is solid, however, and the text clean]. (Cinema World, No. 7) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) SIGNED on the title page by Howard Hawks. This was the first serious book in English to be devoted to Hawks's work, by one of his earliest champions (at least on this side of the Atlantic). Wood (1931-2009) was an influential British-born film critic whose prose style was an important complement to his critical insigh...
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Hitchcock's Films

By: Wood, Robin

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London/New York, A. Zwemmer Limited / A.S. Barnes & Co.: 1965

Seller ID: 24787

Binding: Stiff wraps

Condition: Near Fine

[very nice copy, almost as-new with just minor handling wear, very slight bump/bend at bottom right corner of front cover]. (International Film Guide series) Series (B&W photographs) Sharp-looking copy of this seminal critical work on Alfred Hitchcock, the first important full-length study of his films to appear in English. Later revised/updated and often reprinted, this is the true first edition (issued in the International Film Guide series).
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The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle

By: Yallop, David A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: (c.1976)

Seller ID: 23624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice clean book, tiny bump to top front corner but no other discernibile wear; jacket slightly faded at spine, otherwise just a touch of surface wear]. (B&W photographs, endpaper illus.) Well-researched examination of the myth-shrouded Roscoe Arbuckle murder-rape case, still considered the most authoritative account. Includes a detailed filmography (compiled by Samuel A. Gill) and an extensive bibliography.
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The Directors Guild of America presents a retrospective showing of nine films by Fred Zinnemann

By: Zeitlin, David I.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, The Directors Guild of America, Inc.: 1966

Seller ID: 22418

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

(stapled wraps) [a bit of wear along spine only, otherwise nice and clean]. (B&W photographs) 16-page program booklet (including covers) for a retrospective honoring Fred Zinnemann, on the occasion of his receiving the 1966 DGA Directorial Award for A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (which also earned him a Best Director Academy Award, as well as being chosen Best Picture of 1966). Includes: a 2-page essay, "A Director for All Seasons"; one- or two-page program notes for each film in the series; a filmography of Zinnemann's feature film credits; and a roster of all winners of the DGA Awards from...
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The Directors Guild of America presents a retrospective showing of eight films by Robert Wise

By: Zeitlin, David I.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, The Directors Guild of America, Inc.: 1965

Seller ID: 24633

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

(stapled wraps) [minor handling wear only]. (B&W photographs) 16-page program booklet (including covers) for a retrospective honoring Robert Wise, on the occasion of his receiving the 1965 DGA Directorial Award for THE SOUND OF MUSIC A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (which also earned him his second Best Director Academy Award, as well as being chosen Best Picture of 1965). Includes: a 2-page essay, "Wise: The Man and His Movies"; one- or two-page program notes for each film in the series; a filmography of his directorial credits; and a roster of all winners of the DGA Awards from 1948 through ...
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The Public is Never Wrong: the Autobiography of Adolph Zukor

By: Zukor, Adolph, with Dale Kramer

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1953)

Seller ID: 20637

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[book has minor wear to top and bottom edges and spine ends; jacket is worn, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, ragged closed tear at bottom of rear panel, chipping and a bit of paper loss at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Historically specious but still entertaining memoir by the co-founder of Paramount Pictures.
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Category: Cinema: Biography