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Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield

By: Swindell, Larry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Co.: 1975

Seller ID: 13949

ISBN: 0-688-02907-8

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good+ dj

[a good solid copy, but with considerable foxing/spotting to page edges, previous owner's address label on ffep; jacket shows moderate surface rubbing, light wear at extremities]. (B&W photographs) "The definitive life story of Garfield, super actor and super stud [sorry, I'm just quoting here] -- of his brilliant career, his stormy marriage and tempestuous affairs, and his political misadventures in the feverish environment of Broadway and Hollywood. More than a biography, it is a bittersweet social portrait of the world of the performing arts during a time of travail."
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Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia, as Noted by Her Secretary

By: Sylvia

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's: 1931

Seller ID: 23878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [spine moderately turned, fading/rubbing to spine (lettering almost unreadable), top front corner bumped, one-time owner's modest embossed library stamp on both endpapers, vintage bookseller's label (Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood) on rear pastedown]. A sort-of biography of "Madame Sylvia" (real name, Sylvia Ulback, nee Symnove Johanne Waaler), a Norwegian-born masseuse-cum-dietary/fitness guru to the stars, who during her years in Hollywood (1926-1931) seemingly laid hands on just about every female star of any standing (and a few males too), at least if this furiously na...
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Howard Hughes in Hollywood

By: Thomas, Tony

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Secacus NJ, Citadel Press: (c.1985)

Seller ID: 23854

ISBN: 0806509767

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[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...
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William A. Wellman

By: Thompson, Frank T.

Price: $30.00

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

Seller ID: 23422

ISBN: 0-8108-1594-X

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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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: 0-394-75756-4

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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Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles [SIGNED]

By: Thomson, David

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1996

Seller ID: 24483

ISBN: 0679418342

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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Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci

By: Thrower, Stephen

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Guildford, England, FAB Press: 1999

Seller ID: 23969

ISBN: 0952926067

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

[nice clean copy, vertical rubbed line on front cover, no other significant wear]. (B&W and color photos, graphics) A comprehensive survey of the career of Italian horrormeister Fulci (1927-1996), sometimes known as the "Godfather of Gore": "a journey through the wilder reaches of Italy's fertile film culture, taking a close-up look at the cinema's most daring and anarchic horror specialist -- a man willing to go ever further in search of the ultimate horrific set-piece." Includes plot synopses, analysis, production details and full credits for all of his 52 films, as well as...
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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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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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Category: Cinema: Biography