A portrait of the filmmaker traces his career and numerous works, noting his role in the establishment of industry standards and the characteristics most associated with his persona, while offering insight into his private, professional, and family life.
Fritz Lang, director of films such as "Metropolis", "M" and "The Big Heat", established his reputation in Germany during the silent era. When Hitler rose to power, Lang emigrated to the USA, where he injected his fatalistic Expressionism into the domestic world of Hollywood cinema. This biography presents him as a flawed human being, and includes ...
Micheaux's saga is unique among Hollywood backstories. The son of freed slaves, he grew up in the homesteading communities of South Dakota. After working as a Pullman porter, he was inspired by Jack London to write fiction, and soon began an entrepreneurial career successfully publishing a series of his own autobiographical novels. Then, in 1919, ...
This text offers an account of the McCarthy era in Hollywood. Using oral history techniques, the authors involve 30 of those who were suppressed and unable to talk at the time, owing to the prevailing anti-Communist witch-hunt.
Through 50 years and 50 films--from "Holiday" and "The Philadelphia Story" to "Camille" and "My Fair Lady"--George Cukor created some of Hollywood's greatest motion pictures. The first book to discuss Cukor's homosexuality openly, "George Cukor: A Double Life" is a sympathetic portrait of a man "whose long career is all the more impressive given ...
Like so many of the characters he plays, Clint Eastwood is secretive about himself, his past and his private life. Now approaching 70, he has tended to play characters who are cold, hard and morally ambiguous: from Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" through "Hang Em High" and "Dirty Harry" to "Pale Rider" and "Unforgiven". Alternately stroking ...
A biography of the American film actor, writer and director, Jack Nicholson. It charts his complicated childhood, his rise from being an office-boy in MGM's cartoon department, the successes of his career and the wilder aspects of his private life.
An oral history of Hollywood politics, in which more than 30 Communist screenwriters, actors, and directors give their version of the events that led to their dismissal from the studios during the early years of the Cold War.
This work gathers together interviews with some of Hollywood's greats. The author interviewed Alfred Hitchcock during the making of his last film, talked to the director George Stevens, and interviewed Ida Lupin, Rene Clair and Sheridan Gibney.
'Backstory' is a screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this volume, a delightfully acute and articulate band of screenwriters tells their side of what happened, on and off the set, before the cameras rolled. Their reminiscences are both entertaining and instructive for anyone who cares about the art of ...
Continuing Patrick McGilligan's highly acclaimed series on Hollywood screenwriters, these engrossing, informative, provocative interviews give wonderfully detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. "Backstory 4" is a riveting insider's look at ...
Six of the best-known screenplays--"Platinum Blonde", "American Madness", "It Happened One Night", "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", "Lost Horizon", and "Meet John Doe"--by one of Hollywood's greatest writers.
Patrick McGilligan is one of Hollywood's most prolific biographers; among those whose lives he has turned into written narrative are Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Clint Eastwood. Here, he turns his seasoned pen to Robert Altman, the much revered grandfather of independent cinema. Visionary, courageous, and prolific, Altman in his off-screen ...
This biography looks at the life of George Cukor, who was among the great film directors of the studio age. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the "women's director" for guiding the most sensitive and temperamental leading ladies to immortal performances: Garbo in "Camille", Jean Harlow in "Dinner at Eight", Ingrid Bergman in "Gaslight", Judy ...
Patrick McGilligan is one of Hollywood's most prolific biographers; among those whose lives he has turned into written narrative are Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, and Clint Eastwood. Here, he turns his seasoned pen to Robert Altman, the much revered grandfather of independent cinema. Visionary, courageous, and prolific, Altman in his off-screen ...
Jack Nicholson started life in Jersey, a confused Catholic boy of uncertain parentage. After years working as a dogsbody at MGM came Jack's overnight break in "Easy Rider" which revealed him as an electrifying and entirely new screen presence. This biography tells the stories behind his great screen roles in films like "Chinatown", "One Flew Over ...
Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in "Backstory 5", focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers - Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carriere, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Turner, and ...
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