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Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master by: Gwenda Young and Kevin Brownlow

Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master
by: Gwenda Young and Kevin Brownlow

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 448 pages. Greta Garbo proclaimed him as her favorite director. Actors, actresses, and even child stars were so at ease under his direction that they were able to deliver inspired and powerful performances. Academy-Award-nominated director Clarence Brown (1890-1987) worked with some of Hollywood's greatest stars, such as Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy. Known as the "star maker," he helped guide the acting career of child sensation Elizabeth Taylor (of whom he once said, "she has a face that is an act of God") and discovered Academy-Award-winning child star Claude Jarman Jr. for The Yearling (1946). He directed more than fifty films, including Possessed (1931), Anna Karenina (1935), National Velvet (1944), and Intruder in the Dust (1949), winning his audiences over with glamorous star vehicles, tales of families, communities, and slices of Americana, as well as hard-hitting dramas. Although Brown was admired by peers like Jean Renoir, Frank Capra, and John Ford, his illuminating work and contributions to classic cinema are rarely mentioned in the same breath as those of Hollywood's great directors. In this first full-length account of the life and career of the pioneering filmmaker, Gwenda Young discusses Brown's background to show how his hardworking parents and resilient grandparents inspired his entrepreneurial spirit. She reveals how the one-time engineer and World War I aviator established a thriving car dealership, the Brown Motor Car Company, in Alabama-only to give it all up to follow his dream of making movies. He would not only become a brilliant director but also a craftsman who was known for his innovative use of lighting and composition.

Record # 372019

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Memoire Du Cinema: Les Films Noirs by: Patrick Brion

Memoire Du Cinema: Les Films Noirs
by: Patrick Brion

Hardcover. Geneva, Liber, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Harcover, glazed boards, 120 pages, mostly b&w, some color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. No dust jacket issued.

Record # 374711

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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by: Wasson, Sam

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
by: Wasson, Sam

Hardcover. NY, Flatiron, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 397 pages. Wasson for the first time peels off layers of myth to provide the true account of its creation. Looming over the story of this classic movie is the imminent eclipse of the '70s filmmaker-friendly studios as they gave way to the corporate Hollywood we know today.

Record # 377989

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Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysisby: Falsetto, Mario

Stanley Kubrick: A Narrative and Stylistic Analysis
by: Falsetto, Mario

Softcover. Westport CT, Praeger , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. B&w illustrations. Stanley Kubrick's name is widely recognizable; he is revered for making films that are entertaining and intellectually stimulating. This volume offers a detailed analysis of his major films beginning with The Killing (1956) and ending with Full Metal Jacket (1987). Students of film as well as the general public will be interested in learning new strategies for watching these extraordinary films, since there are few instructive books on this master filmmaker.

Record # 379012

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A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood by: Irwin Winkler

A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood
by: Irwin Winkler

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Press, 2nd pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The list of films Irwin Winkler has produced in his more-than-fifty-year career is extraordinary: Rocky, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, De-Lovely, The Right Stuff, and Creed. His films have been nominated for fifty-two Academy Awards, including five movies for Best Picture, and have won twelve. In this charming and insightful memoir, Winkler tells the stories of his career through his many films as a producer and then as a writer and director, charting the changes inHollywood over the past decades. Clean copy.

Record # 381791

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The Man Who Invented Hollywood: The Autobiography of D.W. Griffith by: Hart, James /Ed.

The Man Who Invented Hollywood: The Autobiography of D.W. Griffith
by: Hart, James /Ed.

Hardcover. Louisville KY, Touchstone Publishing , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Griffith's autobiography was never finished (Griffith died in 1948), here edited and annotated by James Hart, who was a friend of the filmmaker late in his life. Griffith was the leading exponent in the 'blockbuster' genre of popular film, but with style. Chronologic listing of his innovative works, all profusely illustrated. Forward by Frank Capra. Clean copy.

Record # 382208

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ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FOR MAX FACTOR: Rita Hayworth in "Gilda"by: Rita Hayworth

ORIGINAL VINTAGE MAGAZINE AD FOR MAX FACTOR: Rita Hayworth in "Gilda"
by: Rita Hayworth

Max Factor Hollywood, 1946, Book: Very Good, Tru-Color Lipstick with photo of actress Rita Hayworth. another with Glenn Ford. 10 X 13". PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Record # 382633

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Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography : A Life in the Moviesby: Fred Zinnemann

Fred Zinnemann: An Autobiography : A Life in the Movies
by: Fred Zinnemann

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. With the aid of some 400 photographs, the great film director, now 85, recalls 50 years of film-making and more than 20 major films, including High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma!, A Man for All Seasons, The Day of the Jackal, Julia, and The Nun's Story. Light musty smell. Clean.

Record # 384454

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Seasons of Discontent: Dramatic Opinions 1959-1965by: Brustein, Robert

Seasons of Discontent: Dramatic Opinions 1959-1965
by: Brustein, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This book is a collection of reviews, essays, and personal opinions that Mr. Brustein wrote during 1959-1965. It is an excellent resource for directors wanting to tackle shows that premiered during this time period. It also demonstrates his uncanny ability to "critique" a dramatic work in the way that it should be, rather than merely stating a "review". Mr. Brusteins specificity for the English language and his committment to excellence in theatre, starting with the drama itself, is an intellectual oasis for those of us wanting to read scholarly criticism from a educated source. 322 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 384812

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Sir Arthur Pinero: A Critical Biography with Lettersby: Dunkel, Wilbur Dwight

Sir Arthur Pinero: A Critical Biography with Letters
by: Dunkel, Wilbur Dwight

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcovrt in a lightly worn dust jacket, 141 pages. Frontis photo of Pinero. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (24 May 1855 - 23 November 1934) was an English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director. He became a prolific and successful playwright, authoring fifty-nine plays. These include serious social dramas, some dealing with social hypocrisy surrounding attitudes to women in second marriages. 'Pinero's talent was stagecraft. He knew how to organize material for effective presentation on the stage. He understood the mass psychology, the emotional reaction of the group in the theater, and thought little of the individual reader. As a result, the dialogue in his plays is right for the actor and the audience, but disconcerting to the readers. But in particular, Pinero was the master of suspense, motivating the turns in his plot sequence with unerring skill. For he understood stage business, the timinng of motion and sound, and, above all, the reactions of an audience to the physical properties on the stage itself. ' Clean copy.

Record # 384833

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Dietrich: A Biographyby: Wood, Ean

Dietrich: A Biography
by: Wood, Ean

Hardcover. London, Sanctuary Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 359 pages with index, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 384869

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The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actorby: Robert Schnakenberg

The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor
by: Robert Schnakenberg

Softcover. Philadelphia, Quirk, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. The man. The movies. The life. The legend. Hes played a deranged grounds keeper, a bellowing lounge singer, a paranormal exterminator, and a grouchy weatherman. He is William James Bill Murray, Americas greatest national treasure. From his childhood lugging golf bags at a country club to his first taste of success on Saturday Night Live, from his starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters to his reinvention as a hipster icon for the twenty-first century, The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray chronicles every aspect of his extraordinary life and career. Hes the sort of actor who can do Hamlet and Charlies Angels in the same year. He shuns managers and agents, and he once agreed to voice the lead in Garfield because he mistakenly believed it was a Coen Brothers film. Hes famous for crashing house parties all over New York Cityand if he keeps photo bombing random strangers, he might just break the Internet. Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter, and all fun, this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary Murray stories, and controversies in the life of this enigmatic performer. Like-new condition.

Record # 386062

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Directing at Disney: The Original Directors of Walt's Animated Films by: Peri, Don/Docter, Pete

Directing at Disney: The Original Directors of Walt's Animated Films
by: Peri, Don/Docter, Pete

Hardcover. NY, Disney Editions, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 365 pages illustrated in b&w and color. For film buffs, Disney fans, and animation enthusiasts, a fascinating and personal look at seven men who defined the craft of directing an animated film under the tutelage of Walt Disney. This untold history collection chronicles the progression of the animation director role during the 1920s through the 1970s. For students of film making and management, this book serves as go-to resource for a complex and sometimes technical role that demanded precision. For all Disney fans, these personal portraits of Walt's closest creative leaders offer a fuller picture behind the stories, characters, and magical realms in Disney's beloved and respected animated films. Clean copy.

Record # 387690

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Show People: A History of the Film Starby: Michael Newton

Show People: A History of the Film Star
by: Michael Newton

Hardcover. london, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 444 pages, b&w illustrations. Show People offers a comprehensive history of the idea of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, and Asia. Renowned film writer Michael Newton explores our enduring love affair with fame, glamour, and the cinematic image. Newton builds up an expansive picture of movie stardom through explorations of striking and diverse figures such as Ingrid Bergman and John Wayne, Anna Karina and Sidney Poitier, Maggie Cheung, and Raj Kapoor. He celebrates the great performers of the past, and he looks forward to developments in the future, while also illuminating the inner workings of the movie industry and what moves us in a film and in an actor's performance. An encyclopedic, illustrated history of film idols ready for their close-ups, Show People is ultimately a book about cinephilia, the love of cinema, and our complex connection to that celebrated and beleaguered figure, the movie star. Clean, like new.

Record # 397442

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Mirror Crack'd, The: Screenplay - 2nd Draftby: Hales, Jonathan and Agatha Christie

Mirror Crack'd, The: Screenplay - 2nd Draft
by: Hales, Jonathan and Agatha Christie

Softcover. Beverly Hills CA, EMI Films, N/A, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages, three-hole punched photocopied screenplay for the 1980 movie starring Angela Lansbury and Edward Fox, directed by Guy Hamilton. Title page states 2nd Draft and is dated September 1979. The final screenwriter credit added Barry Sandler. Dark blue plastic cover with title lettered on bottom edge and on tape stuck to spine. Otherwise very clean.

Record # 412266

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Art & Film (Art and Design Profiles)by: Academy

Art & Film (Art and Design Profiles)
by: Academy

Softcover. US, Wiley-Academy, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 92 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464706

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Cowboy Movie Postersby: N/A

Cowboy Movie Posters
by: N/A

Softcover. West Plains, MO, Bruce Hershenson, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Color reproductions of old cowboy movie posters. Light shelfwear.

Record # 801720

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Charles Laughton/ An Intimate Biographyby: Higham, Charles

Charles Laughton/ An Intimate Biography
by: Higham, Charles

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Introduction by Elsa Lanchester. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Dust jacket edgewear, chips.

Record # 11341

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Julian Schnabel: Art and Filmby: Moos, David

Julian Schnabel: Art and Film
by: Moos, David

Softcover. Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This survey of Schnabel's career to date presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his numerous critically acclaimed movies-'Basquiat' (1996), 'Before Night Falls' (2000), 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' (2007) and his newest film 'Miral,' which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The complete scripts of each of these movies are featured, punctuated with stills chosen by Schnabel. Published for the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 survey, 'Julian Schnabel: Art and Film' is the first appraisal of how Schnabel works across media, bridging painting, writing and cinema. 447 pages.

Record # 350026

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Disney Villain, The (SIGNED COPY)by: Johnston, Ollie and Frank Thomas

Disney Villain, The (SIGNED COPY)
by: Johnston, Ollie and Frank Thomas

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. 232 pages, color and b&w illustrations, index. Navy blue cloth binding with blind-stamped facsimile signatures of Johnston and Thomas on front cover and gold-stamped titles on spine.

Record # 351936

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Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuckby: Gussow, Mel

Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck
by: Gussow, Mel

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket bright, unclipped. Light shelf wear. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf.

Record # 358387

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Christmas in July - The Life and Art of Preston Sturgesby: Jacobs, Diane

Christmas in July - The Life and Art of Preston Sturges
by: Jacobs, Diane

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 525 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 358571

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Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson - His Own Storyby: Jackson II, Eugene W. with Gwendolyn Sides St. Julian

Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson - His Own Story
by: Jackson II, Eugene W. with Gwendolyn Sides St. Julian

Hardcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w photos. Eugene Jackson became a child star in 1924 playing "Pineapple" in the original "Our Gang" comedy shorts. Join him as he shares his life story -- a story that preserves the history of vaudeville and early Hollywood as well as chronicles the African American experience in the entertainment business.

Record # 359014

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TWO MOVIE STILLS-Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking/All That Jazz/8x10 b&w and colorby: N/A

TWO MOVIE STILLS-Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking/All That Jazz/8x10 b&w and color
by: N/A

Columbia Pictures, 1979, Book: Very Good, Two glossy photos from the hit Bob Fosse production, One in color, the other b&w.

Record # 359804

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World of Robert Flaherty, Theby: Griffith, Richard

World of Robert Flaherty, The
by: Griffith, Richard

Hardcover. London, Gollancz, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 70 b&w photos in text, dj soiled, worn.

Record # 370749

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The Wes Anderson Collectionby: Matt Zoller Seitz

The Wes Anderson Collection
by: Matt Zoller Seitz

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial boards, 336 pages. This New York Times bestselling overview of Wes Anderson's filmography features previously unpublished behind-the-scenes photos, artwork, and ephemera, with an introduction by Michael Chabon. Writer/director Wes Anderson guides movie/television critic Matt Zoller Seitz through Anderson's life and career in a hardcover book-length conversation, woven together with original illustrations and production images from Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Moonrise Kingdom. The result is a meticulously designed book that captures and reflects the spirit of Wes Anderson's movies: melancholy, playful, wise, and wonderfully unique.

Record # 374253

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Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friendsby: Ash Carter and Sam Kashner

Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
by: Ash Carter and Sam Kashner

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts-from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of Mike Nichols pervades American cultural consciousness-from The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Angels in America, The Birdcage, Working Girl, and Primary Colors, not to mention his string of hit plays, including Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple. If that weren't enough, he was also one half of the timelessly funny duo Nichols & May, as well as a founding member of the original improv troupe. Over a career that spanned half a century, Mike Nichols changed Hollywood, Broadway, and comedy forever. Most fans, however, know very little of the person behind it all. Since he never wrote his memoirs, and seldom appeared on television, they have very little sense of his searching intellect or his devastating wit. They don't know that Nichols, the great American director, was born Mikail Igor Peschkowsky, in Berlin, and came to this country, speaking no English, to escape the Nazis. They don't know that Nichols was at one time a solitary psychology student, or that a childhood illness caused permanent, life-altering side effects. They don't know that he withdrew into a debilitating depression before he "finally got it right," in his words, by marrying Diane Sawyer. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise clean.

Record # 374907

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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven

Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1979 and also won Cimino Best Director, and Heaven's Gate, the most notorious bomb of all time. Originally budgeted at $11 million, Cimino's sprawling western went off the rails in Montana. The picture grew longer and longer, and the budget ballooned to over $40 million. When it was finally released, Heaven's Gate failed so completely with reviewers and at the box office that it put legendary studio United Artists out of business and marked the end of Hollywood's auteur era. Or so the conventional wisdom goes. Charles Elton delves deeply into the making and aftermath of the movie and presents a surprisingly different view to that of Steven Bach, one of the executives responsible for Heaven's Gate, who wrote a scathing book about the film and solidified the widely held view that Cimino wounded the movie industry beyond repair. Elton's Cimino is a richly detailed biography that offers a revisionist history of a lightning rod filmmaker. Based on extensive interviews with Cimino's peers and collaborators and enemies and friends, most of whom have never spoken before, it unravels the enigmas and falsehoods, many perpetrated by the director himself, which surround his life, and sheds new light on his extraordinary career. This is a story of the making of art, the business of Hollywood, and the costs of ambition, both financial and personal.

Record # 378933

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Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Successby: Jon Krampner

Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success
by: Jon Krampner

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A Hollywood screenwriting and movie-making icon, Ernest Lehman penned some of the most memorable scenes to ever grace the silver screen. Hailed by Vanity Fair as "perhaps the greatest screenwriter in history," Lehman's work on films such as North by Northwest, The King and I, Sabrina, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music helped define a generation of movie making. But while his talent took center stage, the public knew little of Lehman himself, a native of Manhattan's Upper West Side and the Five Towns of Long Island devoted to his wife of 50 years. His relentless perfectionism, hypochondria and all-night writing sessions fueled by tequila and grilled cheese sandwiches were some of the quirks that made Lehman a legend in the Hollywood community.

Record # 381272

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The Films of D. W. Griffithby: Wagenknecht, Edward; Slide, Anthony

The Films of D. W. Griffith
by: Wagenknecht, Edward; Slide, Anthony

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 276 pages with over 400 b&w photographs. Foreword by Lillian Gish. A definitive pictorial and critical account of all the features, with a comprehensive illustrated general survey of the Biographs with a foreword by Lillian Gish. The book provides credits, plot summaries, and rare illustrations for every film he made; it is outstanding for its thoughtful and penetrating critical evaluation of each film. Clean copy.

Record # 382200

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Portrait of a Film: The Making of White Nightsby: Arnold, Eve, Anthony Crickman, Josef Koudelka and Terry O'Neill

Portrait of a Film: The Making of White Nights
by: Arnold, Eve, Anthony Crickman, Josef Koudelka and Terry O'Neill

Hardcover. NY, H.N. Abrams, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. On-set photographs and reminiscences of the the making of the film White Nights, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Isabella Rossellini, and Gregory Hines. Photographs and text by Eve Arnold, Anthony Crickney, Josef Koudelka, and Terry O'Neill; introduction by filmmaker Taylor Hackford. 176 pages; 110 color and 65 b&w plates. Clean copy.

Record # 382232

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The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1 000 Animation Professionals by: Beck, Jerry [Editor]

The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1 000 Animation Professionals
by: Beck, Jerry [Editor]

Hardcover. Atlanta, Turner Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Showcases some of the greatest cartoons of all time, including characters from Disney, Warner Brothers, Fleischer Studio, Walter Lantz, MGM, and others. A bright, clean copy that has a light smoker's odor.

Record # 384317

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Mozart the Dramatist: A New View of Mozart His Operas and His Ageby: Brigid Brophy

Mozart the Dramatist: A New View of Mozart His Operas and His Age
by: Brigid Brophy

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This is Brigit Brophy's original 1964 edition (she later revisited it in 1988) of her profoundly original and controversial psychoanalytic study of Mozart's five most famous operas. 328 pages, clean copy.

Record # 384807

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Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewiczby: Kenneth L Geist

Pictures Will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
by: Kenneth L Geist

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Introduction by Richard Burton. An in depth look at the career and films of Joseph Mankiewicz whose career spanned nearly half a century. His credits include such classics as The Philadelphia Story; A Letter to Three Wives; All About Eve, and Five Fingers. 443 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Record # 384826

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Letters of Anton Chekhovby: Anton Chekhov, Simon Karlinsky

Letters of Anton Chekhov
by: Anton Chekhov, Simon Karlinsky

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 494 pages with index. Translated by Michael Henry Heim, and with the selection, Commentary & Introduction by Simon Karlinsky. This is a new translation that includes many letters never before available in English "revealing the brilliance, originality and ardent humanism of a unique genius". Clean copy.

Record # 384844

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Of Mice and Magic A History of American Animated Cartoons by: Maltin, Leonard

Of Mice and Magic A History of American Animated Cartoons
by: Maltin, Leonard

Softcover. NY, Plume/New American Library, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Film historian and critic, Leonard Maltin's extensively researched book about the world of animated cartoons. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, and color posters. With studio filmographies, Academy Award nominees and winners, glossary of animation terms, source listings, and index. Clean copy.

Record # 385819

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Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinemaby: Sellier, Genevive

Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
by: Sellier, Genevive

Hardcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with magenta gilt lettering on spine, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of Frances leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Genevive Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinemas formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they wrote in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, they explored relations between men and women, and they expressed ambivalence about the new liberated woman. Sellier argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema.Sellier draws on sociological surveys, box office data, and popular magazines of the period, as well as analyses of specific New Wave films. No dust jacket, Clean copy.

Record # 387386

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Cinema Speculationby: Quentin Tarantino

Cinema Speculation
by: Quentin Tarantino

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 5th pr., 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 391 pages with index. In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he first saw as a young moviegoer at the time, this book is as intellectually rigorous and insightful as it is rollicking and entertaining. At once film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history, it is all written in the singular voice recognizable immediately as QT's and with the rare perspective about cinema possible only from one of the greatest practitioners of the art form ever.

Record # 396735

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Carrie: Screenplay - FIRST REVISED DRAFTby: Cohen, D. Lawrence

Carrie: Screenplay - FIRST REVISED DRAFT
by: Cohen, D. Lawrence

Softcover. Los Angeles, Paul Monash Productions, N/A, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 138 pages, pale blue paper wraps with die-cut screen revealing title, 3-hole punched pages with two brads holding pages, top of rear cover loose from brad. Title page states: adapted from the novel by STEVEN KING (note that STEPHEN KING" is misspelled in this First Draft as "STEVEN KING"). This is an ORIGINAL REVISED FIRST DRAFT SCREENPLAY. At this point the film, Carrie, was in early development. This was, perhaps, a spec script under the umbrella of Producer Paul Monash. Stamped with logo and address of the Ziegler Ross Agency. This draft has handwritten notations, crossed-out sections, some pages initialed (unreadable) - in xeroxed image, not original. Light overall wear.

Record # 412260

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Italian Film Posters by: Kehr, Dave

Italian Film Posters
by: Kehr, Dave

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Spotless and tight copy. 128 Italian film posters that are a rich array of both Italian films and the international cinema. Includes text and notes on each poster. Arranged by genre from the 30's to the late 50's.

Record # 456256

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Zapata!by: Steinbeck, John

Zapata!
by: Steinbeck, John

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st UK, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. The Previously Unpublished Introduction, Commentary and Script for the Film VIVA ZAPATA! Clean copy.

Record # 612202

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Innocent Eye, The: The Life of Robert J. Flahertyby: Calder-Marshall, Arthur

Innocent Eye, The: The Life of Robert J. Flaherty
by: Calder-Marshall, Arthur

Hardcover. London, W.H. Allen, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf otherwise very good in a similar dust jacket. The filmmaker of Nanook of the North.

Record # 10422

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Focal Encyclopedia of Film and Television Techniques, The by: Spottiswoode, Raymond (Ed.)

Focal Encyclopedia of Film and Television Techniques, The
by: Spottiswoode, Raymond (Ed.)

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st , 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1,100 pages. Large, heavy hardcover. Black & white diagrams and illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 200162

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Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Filmby: McDonough, Jimmy

Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film
by: McDonough, Jimmy

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 463 pages, b&w illustrations. What do you need to make money making movies? The answer, according to cult hero, creator of the sexploitation film, and the man the Wall Street Journal once dubbed the King Leer of Hollywood, Russ Meyer, is: "big bosoms and square jaws." In the first candid and fiendishly researched account of the late cinematic instigator's life, Jimmy McDonough shows us how Russ Meyer used that formula to turn his own crazed fantasies into movies that made him a millionaire and changed the face of American film forever.

Record # 351536

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The Complete Greed of Erich Von Stroheim A Reconstruction of the Film in 348 Still Photos Following He Original Screenplay Plus 52 Production Stills. by: Erich Von St

The Complete Greed of Erich Von Stroheim A Reconstruction of the Film in 348 Still Photos Following He Original Screenplay Plus 52 Production Stills.
by: Erich Von St

Softcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, b&w plates. Illustrated with stills from the 1924 film. compiled and annotated with a foreword by Herman Weinberg. Probably Stroheim"s best remembered work as a director is Greed, a detailed filming of the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean. Light soiling to wrappers, shelfwear.

Record # 358379

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Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Theby: Lewis, Roger

Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The
by: Lewis, Roger

Hardcover. NY, Applause Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages, b&w photos. A no-holds-barred biography that exposes Peter Sellers few were privy to. Recognized as one of the greatest British comics, Sellers was the grand master in over 55 films. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of bizarre behavior involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with such people as Princess Margaret, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives. As fascinatingly revealing look at this enigmatic talent.

Record # 358414

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Eighth Veil, Theby: Todd, Ann

Eighth Veil, The
by: Todd, Ann

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam"s Sons, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "The romantic leading lady whose hands were smashed by a cane-wielding James Mason as she sat at the piano in the climactic scene of THE SEVENTH VEIL now draws back THE EIGHTH VEIL to reveal the intimate details of a life that has been rich in earthly and spiritual experience. With wit and candor, Ann Todd tells how she fought with her American discoverer, David O. Selznick, who said, 'I presume you have a bust -- show it.' She fell in love with co-star Gregory Peck, who referred to her as his 'bundle from Britain.' Alfred Hitchcock directed their love scenes in THE PARADINE CASE and the actress relates a hilarious 'casting couch' experience with Hitch that occurred at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Especially provocative is Ann Todd's surprising account of what it was like to work with the great Vivien Leigh, with whom she co-starred in DUEL OF ANGELS. "

Record # 358591

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Serial Pictorial Number Four: Spy Smasher (Republic 1942)by: N/A

Serial Pictorial Number Four: Spy Smasher (Republic 1942)
by: N/A

Softcover. Hollywood CA, Republic Pictures, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 16-page booklet, 8 X 10 1/2", staple bound. Features b&w stills from the Republic Pictures serial "Spy Smasher", starring Kane Richmond (on cover). Mild soil to front cover otherwise very good, clean.

Record # 359799

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Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivalsby: Beck, Jerry

Outlaw Animation: Cutting-Edge Cartoons from the Spike and Mike Festivals
by: Beck, Jerry

Softcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. An entertaining collection celebrating the work of cutting-edge animation filmmakers features frame grabs, production stills, original artwork, behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews from twenty-five years of teh Spike & Mike Festival of Animation, with works by Nick Park and Peter Lord of Aardman, John Lasseter, Craig McCracken, Mike Judge, and others.

Record # 362549

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The Serpent's Egg by: Ingmar Bergman, Photographer: Lars Looschen, Translator: Alan Blair

The Serpent's Egg
by: Ingmar Bergman, Photographer: Lars Looschen, Translator: Alan Blair

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon , 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 123 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 372844

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