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Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Autor: Scott Schechter

Número de Páginas: 446

This day-by-day account of the legend's life—the first of its kind—succeeds in the daunting task of tracking Judy's myriad professional pursuits, the personal crises she triumphed over, and her many accomplishments. Lavishly illustrated with eighty rare photos, this volume contains new information to enthrall even the most knowledgeable Garland fan. For those just encountering Judy, this book provides the perfect introduction, an engrossing narrative bursting with information: her performance dates, concert set lists, and recording session schedules; the evolving critical reception to her work; the many celebrities that came into contact with and adored Judy, from the Beatles to Elvis to Sinatra; her filming itineraries and guest appearances; excerpts from rare interviews and press conferences; and much more. Here is Judy Garland as never viewed before, in a way that allows readers to see her whole life on a daily basis and come to their own conclusion about what her life was really about. They will encounter a survivor, parent, friend, and one of the greatest entertainers the world has ever known, who overcame one obstacle after another in order to devote forty-five of her...

Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Autor: Anne Edwards

Número de Páginas: 383

Edwards’s biography presents a complete picture of the late actress—and not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results. Above all, Judy Garland sought to please, whether it was an audience or a studio head, and therein lies her powerful and heartbreaking story.

Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Autor: Scott Brogan

Número de Páginas: 415

A Definitive Celebration of Hollywood's Iconic Musical Star and Her Legendary Career More than 100 years after her birth, Judy Garland remains the gold standard by which all movie musical leading ladies are judged. She is revered and celebrated by current stars, directors, songwriters, and others in the entertainment industry. She also has a fan base that is as large as that of Marilyn Monroe or James Dean. Her image, especially “Dorothy” in The Wizard of Oz (1939), is an instantly recognized icon. Garland really was the voice of MGM during her tenure and after. No documentary about any aspect of the history of the MGM Studios is complete without Garland’s voice on the soundtrack. When people think of MGM Musicals, they think of Garland along with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. She’s the only female in that exalted “top three.” There have been many books about Garland’s fabled and troubled life, but none devoted solely to the study (and celebration) of her years at MGM. She entered the studio as a 13-year-old contract player in 1935. She left the studio in 1950 carrying the title “Metro’s Greatest Asset.” Judy Garland: The Voice of MGM will focus on Garland’s...

Judy Garland on Judy Garland

Judy Garland on Judy Garland

Autor: Randy L. Schmidt

Número de Páginas: 500

“It’s going to be one hell of a great—everlastingly great—book with humor, tears, fun, emotion, and love,” Judy Garland said of her plans to tell her life story, but she died at the age of forty-seven before seeing it through. Judy Garland on Judy Garland is the closest we will likely come to experiencing and exploring the legend’s abandoned autobiography. Collecting and presenting the most important Garland interviews and encounters that took place between the years 1935 and 1969, this work opens with her first radio appearance under contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and concludes with her last known interview, one taped for Radio Denmark just months before her death. What makes this collection unique and distinguishes it from the plethora of Garland biographies is that it places Judy in the role of storyteller. She wrote a number of essays for various publications and sat for countless print, radio, and television interviews. These and other autobiographical efforts she made are proof that Judy Garland wanted her story told, and wanted it told in her own words. Finally, forty-five years after her death, here it is. Randy L. Schmidt is the author of the acclaimed...

Judy Garland - Splendeurs et chute d'une légende

Judy Garland - Splendeurs et chute d'une légende

Autor: Bertrand Tessier

Número de Páginas: 215

Il y a 50 ans, à l'âge de 47 ans, disparaissait Judy Garland, célèbre interprète de Over The Rainbow" et mère de Liza Minelli. Un des plus grands mythes hollywoodiens, raconté par le biographe des stars Bertrand Tessier." Une star déchue Comédienne, danseuse, chanteuse, Judy Garland fut la reine incontestée de la comédie musicale et la " petite fiancée de l'Amérique ". Privée de son enfance par une mère qui l'a propulsée sur scène dès l'âge de trois ans, engagée a treize ans par la MGM, elle devient une star en entonnant " Over the Rainbow " dans Le Magicien d'Oz (1939). Elle enchaîne alors les succès qui font d'elle une cash machine inusable... ou presque. Fragile et complexée, Judy s'épuise et ne résiste qu'a grand renfort d'amphétamines prescrites par le studio. Début d'une descente aux enfers que cinq maris – dont Vincente Minnelli, le père de Liza – ne sauront empêcher... Broyée par le système hollywoodien après son licenciement de la MGM, la star rebondit avec Une Etoile est née, avant de se consacrer a la chanson, devenant aux États-Unis le double féminin de Frank Sinatra. Mais elle n'échappe pas a ses démons – insomnies, alcool,...

Judy Garland

Judy Garland

Autor: David Shipman

Número de Páginas: 568

Biografi om den amerikanske skuespiller og sanger Judy Garland (1923-1969)

Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor

Hollywood Songsters: Garland to O'Connor

Autor: James Robert Parish , Michael R. Pitts

Número de Páginas: 350

For fans of musicals, singing, Hollywood history, and the lives of stars, no other work equals this new three-volume reference to the on- and off-camera careers of more than 100 performers who made major contributions to the American screen musical. From June Allyson to Mae West, Hollwood Songsters provides a detailed narrative-ranging from 2,000 to 5000 words each-of the lives and careers of stars forever etched in our memories. Each entry includes a filmography, discography (of both albums and CDs), Broadway appearances, radio work, television appearances and series, and a full-page photo of the subject. This is the ideal reference work for everyone one from the mildly curious to the devoted fan.

The Advocate

The Advocate

Número de Páginas: 108

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies

Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies

Autor: Matthew Tinkcom , Amy Villarejo

Número de Páginas: 424

Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies. The contributors rethink contemporary film culture using ideas and concerns from feminism, queer theory, 'race' studies, critiques of nationalism, colonialism and post-colonialism, the cultural economies of fandom, spectator theory, and Marxism. Combining a film studies focus on the film industry, production and technology with a cultural studies analysis of consumption and audiences, Keframes demonstrates the breadth of approaches now available for understanding popular cinema. Subjects addressed include: * Studying Ripley and the 'Alien' films * Pedagogy and Political Correctness in Martial Arts cinema * Judy Garland fandom on the net * Stardom and serial fantasies: Thomas Harris's 'Hannibal' * Tom Hanks and the globalization of stars * Queer Bollywood * Jackie Chan and the Black connection * '12 Monkeys', postmodernism and urban space.

Escritos de cine (estuche: Un oficio del siglo xx, Arcadia todas las noches, Cine o Sardina)

Escritos de cine (estuche: Un oficio del siglo xx, Arcadia todas las noches, Cine o Sardina)

Autor: Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Número de Páginas: 1159

Las tres colecciones de artículos sobre cine de Guillermo Cabrera Infante en un estuche que se disfruta como una función. Director de la cinemateca de Cuba y crítico de cine en su juventud, guionista de Hollywood en su madurez, Guillermo Cabrera Infante fue un apasionado cinéfilo toda su vida. El presente estuche reúne sus tres colecciones de ensayos sobre el tema: Un oficio del siglo xx, Arcadia todas las noches y Cine o sardina. En ellas brillan su espíritu lúdico y la fina ironía, que nos ayudan a comprender el sentido, el contexto y la factura del séptimo arte. De texto en texto y de mirada en mirada, Cabrera Infante repasa la obra de Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, John Huston o Vincente Minnelli, así como una plétora de películas clásicas y modernas. Si el cine es el protagonista indiscutible, el crítico-escritor no deja de darle la réplica. Del diálogo entre la pantalla y la palabra surgen textos que no solo aportan una valiosa información, sino que se disfrutan como verdaderas funciones. Sobre el autor y la obra: «Para los que estudiábamos cine, Un oficio del siglo XX era un libro de cabecera.» Fernando Trueba «Ha convertido la crítica...

The Road to Oz

The Road to Oz

Autor: Jay Scarfone , William Stillman

Número de Páginas: 393

The Road to Oz is a complete retelling of how The Wizard of Oz was influenced and created, and attained its iconic status. The new volume by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman will reflect recent research and much more through newly discovered period interviews, media resources of the era, transcriptions and unique contemporary interviews with those who were there. Additionally, never-before-published imagery accompanies the text. In its truth and candor, this new historical contribution is ideal to tie-in with the 2018-19 80th anniversary of the 1939 movie. Tantalizing highlights of the text include: · A thorough synopsis of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and the script, inspired by the book, of the 1903 Broadway musical-comedy extravaganza. · An overview of the plots of prior silent film adaptations of Oz and how they influenced the M-G-M film. · An analysis of newly-discovered audio transcriptions of Wizard of Oz radio programs from 1931-32 and 1937-38—all of which were previously unknown. · A complete accounting of Sam Goldwyn’s proposed (and aborted) 1934 Technicolor musical version of Oz starring Eddie Cantor (including commentary from Cantor’s...

Doug Pratt's DVD

Doug Pratt's DVD

Autor: Douglas Pratt

Número de Páginas: 676

The ultimate guide to DVD by the world's leadding authority on the medium.

Readings in the Philosophy of Language

Readings in the Philosophy of Language

Autor: Peter Ludlow

Número de Páginas: 1108

A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into linguistic theory.

The Wizard of Oz FAQ

The Wizard of Oz FAQ

Autor: David J. Hogan

Número de Páginas: 471

The Wizard of Oz FAQ is a fact-filled celebration of the beloved 1939 fantasy masterpiece starring Judy Garland. It's all here – from L. Frank Baum and his Oz novels to the complete background story of the movie's conception, development, and shoot, with special attention given to the little-known parade of uncredited directors, casting difficulties, and on-set accidents and gaffes, as well as more than 75 sidebars devoted to key cast members, directors, and other behind-the-scenes personnel. You'll find a wealth of fun facts: How MGM overworked Judy Garland before, during, and after Oz; why director Victor Fleming had his hands full with the Cowardly Lion and Dorothy's other friends; what it was about Toto that really bothered Judy; the physical horrors of filming in Technicolor; the racial Oz gag that was scripted but never shot; when the Wicked Witch was going to be beautiful; why The Wizard of Oz owes a lot to silent-screen star Mary Pickford; the story of deleted scenes, and a full two weeks of shooting that had to be scrapped; why MGM star Mickey Rooney was part of the movie's traveling publicity blitz; how the Wicked Witch was literally blown off her broomstick one day;...

El Cementerio del Diablo (Serie El libro sin nombre 3)

El Cementerio del Diablo (Serie El libro sin nombre 3)

Autor: Anónimo

Número de Páginas: 437

A petición de los propios lectores, cerramos la trilogía de culto, y autor anónimo, iniciada con El libro sin nombre. La irresistible mezcla de El código Da Vinci con Quentin Tarantino. ¡Kid Bourbon vuelve más sediento que nunca! Querido lector, A nadie le gusta perder en la final de un concurso televisivo de cantantes. Pero ¿no es peor ser asesinado a sangre fría? En el Cementerio del Diablo sólo hay una gasolinera y el hotel Pasadena, donde la noche de Halloween se celebra la final de un concurso de cantantes. Los finalistas compiten imitando a los grandes iconos de la música. Entre ellos hay un asesino# y un montón de zombis. Sánchez y la Dama Mística, viejos conocidos, se hallan entre los espectadores. El camarero quiere que gane su amigo Elvis; la vidente, al ver que Kid Bourbon irrumpe en escena, no se atreve a predecir nada# ¡Bienvenido al reality show más despiadado! Este librocierra la trilogía de culto, y autor anónimo, iniciada con El libro sin nombre y El Ojo de la Luna . La irresistible mezcla de El código da Vinci con Quentin Tarantino vuelve sedienta de sangre.

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Autor: Colin Larkin

Número de Páginas: 4183

This text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on popular music, from the early 20th century to the present day.

The Hollywood Musical

The Hollywood Musical

Autor: Jane Feuer

Número de Páginas: 176

... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read. --Film Quarterly Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a rebirth, with the rise of teen musicals such as Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. In a chapter written especially for this second edition of her well-known study, Jane Feuer shows how this new development in the genre relates to important changes in the cinema audience itself. It is the text for the study of Hollywood musicals.

Notable American Women

Notable American Women

Autor: Barbara Sicherman , Carol Hurd Green

Número de Páginas: 818

Modeled on the "Dictionary of American Biography, "this set stands alone but is a good complement to that set which contained only 700 women of 15,000 entries. The preparation of the first set of "Notable American Women" was supported by Radcliffe College. It includes women from 1607 to those who died before the end of 1950; only 5 women included were born after 1900. Arranged throughout the volumes alphabetically, entries are from 400 to 7,000 words and have bibliographies. There is a good introductory essay and a classified lest of entries in volume three.

Fanny Brice

Fanny Brice

Autor: Herbert G. Goldman

Número de Páginas: 335

"I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man," Fanny Brice once boasted. "I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in the rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan. I've played in London before the king and in Oil City before miners with lanterns in their caps." Fanny Brice was indeed show business personified, and in this luminous volume, Herbert G. Goldman, acclaimed biographer of Al Jolson, illuminates the life of the woman who inspired the spectacularly successful Broadway show and movie Funny Girl, the vehicle that catapulted Barbra Streisand to super stardom. In a work that is both glorious biography and captivating theatre history, Goldman illuminates both Fanny's remarkable career on stage and radio--ranging from her first triumph as "Sadie Salome" to her long run as radio's "Baby Snooks"--and her less-than-triumphant personal life. He reveals a woman who was a curious mix of elegance and earthiness, of high and low class, a lady who lived like a duchess but cursed like ...

Buzz

Buzz

Autor: Jeffrey Spivak

Número de Páginas: 418

The Great Depression was defined by poverty and despair, but visionary American filmmaker Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) managed to divert the public's attention away from the economic crash with some of the most iconic movies of all time. Known for his kaleidoscopic dance numbers featuring multitudes of performers in extravagant costumes, his musicals provided a brief respite for an audience whose reality was hard and bitter. Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley is a revealing study of the director, drawing from interviews with his colleagues, newspaper and legal records, and Berkeley's own unpublished memoirs to uncover the life of a Hollywood legend renowned for his talent and creativity. Jeffrey Spivak examines how Berkeley's career evolved from creating musical numbers for other directors in films such as 42nd Street (1933) and Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) to directing his own pictures, such as Strike up the Band (1940) and The Gang's All Here (1943). Though Berkeley claimed he was no choreographer, his movies revitalized the public's waning interest in musical pictures. While other popular filmmakers advertised their works specifically as nonmusical, Berkeley embraced his...

Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality

Experience on the Edge: Theorizing Liminality

Autor: Brady Wagoner , Tania Zittoun

Número de Páginas: 210

Liminality has become a key concept within the social sciences, with a growing number of publications devoted to it in recent years. The concept is needed to address those aspects of human experience and social life that fall outside of ordered structures. In contrast to the clearly defined roles and routines that define so much of industrial work and economic life, it highlights spaces of transition, indefiniteness, ambiguity, play and creativity. Thus, it is an indispensable concept and a necessary counterweight to the overemphasis on structural influences on human behavior. This book aims to use the concept of liminality to develop a culturally and experientially sensitive psychology. This is accomplished by first setting out an original theoretical framework focused on understanding the ‘liminal sources of cultural experience,’ and second an application of concept to a number of different domains, such as tourism, pilgrimage, aesthetics, children’s play, art therapy, and medical diagnosis. Finally, all these domains are then brought together in a concluding commentary chapter that puts them in relation to an overarching theoretical framework. This book will be useful for ...

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts

A to Z of American Women in the Performing Arts

Autor: Liz Sonneborn

Número de Páginas: 273

Presents biographical profiles of 150 American women of achievement in the field of performing arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Boulevard des crépuscules

Boulevard des crépuscules

Autor: Pierre Achard

Número de Páginas: 397

Depuis les années 60, Pierre Achard s?est aperçu que leur « dernière scène » - ou «Final-cut » - était souvent un film en soi, une tragédie secrète d?autant plus troublante que la fiction y rejoignait définitivement la réalité, que les stars y jouaient le rôle de leur vie, face à un adversaire pire que Jack Palance, Lee Van Cleef et Richard Widmark réunis : leur destin. Qu?ils n?étaient jamais aussi grands, beaux et bien sûr vrais qu?à cette seconde-là, leur dernière heure, face à l?ultime caméra, les Bogart, Flynn, Gable, Clift, Wayne, Power, Hudson, Monroe, Mansfield, Valentino, Dean, Ladd, Wood, Hepburn, etc. Et que cette dernière séquence valait d?être mise en scène, comme on écrit un roman. Presque policier, genre « enquête à Malibu », de piscine en yacht et de baignoire en boudoir, avec une centaine de victimes et un seul coupable : Hollywood. Ainsi sont racontés dans ce texte une foule de destins fabuleux, de seconds couteaux brisés, dont chacun pourrait être un film. Connaissez-vous l?histoire de Jeff Chandler ou d?Audie Murphy ? La réalité s?est ainsi révélée bien plus spectaculaire, émouvante, cinématographique et l?écrire,...

My Judy Garland Life

My Judy Garland Life

Autor: Susie Boyt

Número de Páginas: 326

Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, My Judy Garland Life will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or held a candle to a star. Judy Garland has been an important figure in Susie Boyt's life since she was three years old, comforting, inspiring and at times disturbing her. In this unique book, Boyt travels deep into the underworld of hero worship, reviewing through the prism of Judy our understanding of rescue, consolation, love, grief and fame. What does it mean to adore someone you don't know? What is the proper husbandry of a twenty-first century obsession? Boyt's journey takes in a duetting breakfast with Mickey Rooney, a Munchkin luncheon, tea with the largest collector of Garlandia, an illicit late-night spree at the Minnesota Judy Garland Museum and a breathless, semi-sacred encounter with Miss Liza Minnelli . . .

Interpreting Films

Interpreting Films

Autor: Janet Staiger

Número de Páginas: 291

Employing a wide range of examples from Uncle Tom's Cabin and Birth of a Nation to Zelig and Personal Best, Janet Staiger argues that a historical examination of spectators' responses to films can make a valuable contribution to the history, criticism, and philosophy of cultural products. She maintains that as artifacts, films do not contain immanent meanings, that differences among interpretations have historical bases, and that these variations are due to social, political, and economic conditions as well as the viewers' constructed images of themselves. After proposing a theory of reception study, the author demonstrates its application mainly through analyzing the varying responses of audiences to certain films at specific moments in history. Staiger gives special attention to how questions of class, gender, sexual preference, race, and ethnicity enter into film viewers' interpretations. Her analysis reflects recent developments in post-structuralism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, and includes a discussion of current reader-response models in literary and film studies as well as an alternative approach for thinking about historical readers and...

Television Specials

Television Specials

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 487

This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not only updates entries contained within that edition, but adds numerous programs not previously covered, including beauty pageants, parades, awards programs, Broadway and opera adaptations, musicals produced especially for television, holiday specials (e.g., Christmas and New Year's Eve), the early 1936-1947 experimental specials, honors specials. In short, this is a reference work to 5,336 programs--the most complete source for television specials ever published.

Human History on Drugs

Human History on Drugs

Autor: Sam Kelly

Número de Páginas: 240

A lively, hilarious, and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history’s most famous figures, including Shakespeare, Queen Victoria, and the Beatles, from debut author (and viral historical TikToker with nearly 100K followers) Sam Kelly Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk, William Shakespeare was a stoner, and George Washington drank a spoonful of opium every night to staunch the pain from his fake teeth? Or how about the fact that China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, ingested liquid mercury in an (ironic) attempt to live forever, or that Alexander Shulgin, inventor of no less than 230 new psychedelic drugs, was an employee of the DEA? In Human History on Drugs, historian Sam Kelly introduces us to the history we weren’t taught in school, offering up irreverent and hysterical commentary as he sheds light on some truly shocking aspects of the historical characters we only thought we knew. With chapters spanning from Ancient Greece (“The Oracle of Delphi Was Huffing Fumes”) and the Victorian Era (“Vincent van Gogh Ate Yellow Paint”) to Hollywood’s Golden Age (“Judy Garland Was Drugged by Grown-Ups”) and modern times (“Carl Sagan...

The Advocate

The Advocate

Número de Páginas: 72

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

LIFE

LIFE

Número de Páginas: 136

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

The Advocate

The Advocate

Número de Páginas: 72

The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

CopyCats

CopyCats

Autor: Bea Fogelman

Número de Páginas: 266

If you have ever seen a show with celebrity impersonators you will love this book! In CopyCats these talented performers reveal how they came to emulate particular stars, offer a glimpse into their professional and personal lives, as well as disclose enlightening facts about this aspect of show business.

Just Remember This

Just Remember This

Autor: Colin Bratkovich

Número de Páginas: 941

I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.

The Gay Metropolis

The Gay Metropolis

Autor: Charles Kaiser

Número de Páginas: 452

An utterly compelling social and political history of modern gay life, this Lambda Book Award finalist is filled with dazzling characters, tragedies, and happy endings. of photos.

The Essential Mickey Rooney

The Essential Mickey Rooney

Autor: James L. Neibaur

Número de Páginas: 313

Mickey Rooney is a cinematic icon whose career lasted from the silent era into the twenty-first century. From the shorts he made as Mickey McGuire to supporting roles in such films as Night at the Museum, Rooney had more than 300 film appearances to his credit. Mickey Rooney was not just a movie star, he was the most popular film performer for several years in a row in the 1930s. In addition to his four Academy Award nominations, Rooney received two special Oscars, including an honorary award for his variety of memorable performances spanning several decades. In The Essential Mickey Rooney, James L. Neibaur examines more than sixty feature films in which the actor appeared, from starring roles in Boys Town, Babes in Arms, and The Human Comedy to acclaimed supporting performances in The Bold and the Brave and The Black Stallion. In addition to familiar works like the Andy Hardy comedies or musicals opposite Judy Garland, lesser known films like Quicksand and Drive a Crooked Road are discussed as examples of the masterful performances he offered again and again. An actor of rare talent and unrestrained exuberance, Rooney appeared so often on film that it probably is impossible to...

Movie/TV Soundtracks and Original Cast Recordings Price and Reference Guide

Movie/TV Soundtracks and Original Cast Recordings Price and Reference Guide

Autor: Jerry Osborne

Número de Páginas: 658
Warhol

Warhol

Autor: Blake Gopnik

Número de Páginas: 1239

«Una biografía épica. Un libro para disfrutar, ameno y plagado de detalles. Fascinante». Kirkus Reviews Basada en años de investigación y entrevistas con decenas de amigos, amantes y detractores de Warhol, esta biografía traza el recorrido del artista desde sus orígenes como hijo de inmigrantes de Europa del Este en Pittsburgh hasta su revolucionario papel en el mundo del arte. Además, es un fascinante retrato de la sociedad y del mundo en los años setenta y ochenta y de las grandes transformaciones ocurridas en el comercio y la cultura. Tras el resplandor de su famosa Factory, por donde pasaron las figuras más glamurosas de su tiempo (Susan Sontag, Mick Jagger o los barones de Rothschild, entre otros), había un hombre tímido que vivió gran parte de su vida con su madre y protegió con celo su privacidad. Repleto de ideas nuevas sobre el trabajo y la personalidad del artista, este libro capta a la perfección las contradicciones y el radical ingenio que llevaron a Warhol a revolucionar el panorama cultural. ¿Era una broma o un auténtico genio? ¿Era un radical o un arribista? Como el propio Warhol habría respondido: sí. La crítica ha dicho: «Ojalá hubiese...

She Damn Near Ran the Studio

She Damn Near Ran the Studio

Autor: Jacqueline R. Braitman

Número de Páginas: 350

Best known as the woman who “ran MGM,” Ida R. Koverman (1876–1954) served as talent scout, mentor, executive secretary, and confidant to American movie mogul Louis B. Mayer for twenty-five years. She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman is the first full account of Koverman’s life and the true story of how she became a formidable politico and a creative powerhouse during Hollywood’s Golden Era. For nearly a century, Koverman’s legacy has largely rested on a mythical narrative while her more fascinating true-life story has remained an enduring mystery—until now. This story begins with Koverman’s early years in Ohio and the sensational national scandal that forced her escape to New York where she created a new identity and became a leader among a community of women. Her second incarnation came in California where she established herself as a hardcore political operative challenging the state’s progressive impulse. During the Roaring Twenties, she was a key architect of the Southland’s conservative female-centric partisan network that refashioned the course of state and national politics and put Herbert Hoover in the White House. As ...

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