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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818609603321

Titolo

American classic screen interviews / / edited by John C. Tibbetts, James M. Welsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2010

ISBN

1-282-71364-7

9786612713644

0-8108-7675-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TibbettsJohn C

WelshJames Michael

Disciplina

791.43092/2

Soggetti

Motion pictures - United States

Motion pictures - Production and direction - United States

Motion picture industry - United States

Motion picture actors and actresses - United States

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Animators - United States

Film historians - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

American Classic Screen Interviews; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: ACTORS AND ACTRESSES; Fred Astaire; Joan Bennett; Buster Crabbe; "Perfect Manners"; An Visit with Irene Dunne; Joan Fontaine; Margaret Hamilton; The MacMurrays at Home; Mike Mazurki; Twenty-Five Years with the Golden Boy (Paul Newman); Robert Preston Talks about Typecasting, Cecil B. DeMille, and Victor/Victoria; Esther Ralston; America's Boyfriend; That Beautiful Brat; Part II: BEHIND THE CAMERA: THE DIRECTORS; Frank Capra; Stanley Donen; Hollywood Royalty; Mervyn LeRoy; Rouben Mamoulian

Part III: BEHIND THE CAMERA: THE CRAFTSMENBernard Brown; "I Never Saw a Mountain I Wouldn't Climb"; Winton Hoch; In Step with Hermes Pan; Glen MacWilliams; Part IV: ANIMATION; From Kansas City to Hollywood; Ollie Johnston on "Classic" Disney Animation; Lord Love a Duck!; Part V: FILM HISTORIANS; An Interview with Kevin Brownlow;



Adventures in Film History with William K. Everson; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In American Classic Screen Interviews, editors John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh have assembled some of the most significant and memorable interviews conducted for the magazine over its ten-year history. This collection contains rare conversations with some of the brightest stars of yesteryear, as well as gifted filmmakers, celebrated animators, and highly revered historians. This compendium of interviews recaptures the spirit and scholarship of that time and will appeal to both schola