Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood / / Robert S. Birchard ; with a foreword by Kevin Thomas

• Autore: Birchard Robert S
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (496 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4302/33/092
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - United States - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood; Title; Copyright; For Grace Houghton who kept the faith; Contents; Foreword, by Kevin Thomas; Preface; 1. The Squaw Man; 2. The Virginian; 3. The Call of the North; 4. What's-His-Name; 5. The Man From Home; 6. The Rose of the Rancho; 7. The Girl of the Golden West; 8. The Warrens of Virginia; 9. The Unafraid; 10. The Captive; 11. The Wild Goose Chase; 12. The Arab; 13. Chimmie Fadden; 14. Kindling; 15. Maria Rosa; 16. Carmen; 17. Temptation; 18. Chimmie Fadden Out West; 19. The Cheat; 20. The Golden Chance; 21. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ; 22. The Heart of Nora Flynn 23. The Dream Girl; 24. Joan the Woman; 25. A Romance of the Redwoods; 26. The Little American; 27. The Woman God Forgot; 28. The Devil Stone; 29. The Whispering Chorus; 30. Old Wives for New; 3 1. We Can't Have Everything; 32. Till I Come Back to You; 33. The Squaw Man (first remake); 34. Don't Change Your Husband; 35. For Better, For Worse; 36. Male and Female; 37. Why Change Your Wife?; 38. Something to Think About; 39. Forbidden Fruit; 40. The Affairs of Anatol; 41. Fool's Paradise; 42. Saturday Night; 43. Manslaughter; 44. Adam's Rib; 45. The Ten Commandments ; 46. Triumph 47. Feet of Clay; 48. The Golden Bed; 49. The Road to Yesterday; 50. The Volga Boatman; 51. The King of Kings; 52. The Godless Girl; 53. Dynamite; 54. Madam Satan; 55. The Squaw Man (second remake); 56. The Sign of the Cross; 57. This Day and Age; 58. Four Frightened People; 59. Cleopatra; 60. The Crusades; 61. The Plainsman; 62. The Buccaneer; 63. Union Pacific; 64. North West Mounted Police; 65. Reap the Wild Wind; 66. The Story of Dr. Wassell; 67. Unconquered; 68. Samson and Delilah; 69. The Greatest Show on Earth; 70. The Ten Commandments; Appendices; Appendix A ; DeMille Pictures, Inc., Costs and Grosses Appendix B; Other Cecil B. DeMille Film Credits; Appendix C; Unrealized Projects; Appendix D; Film Appearances by Cecil B. DeMille; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations follow 1; Illustrations follow 2; Illustrations follow 3
• Sommario/riassunto: "" """"Far and away the best film book published so far this year.""""--National Board of Review Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film history and a fascinating look at how movies were actually made in Hollywood's Golden Age. Drawing extensively on DeMille's personal archives and other primary sources, Robert S. Birchard offers a revealing portrait of DeMille the filmmaker that goes behind studio gates and beyond DeMille's legendary
• Titolo autorizzato: Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood
• ISBN: 0-8131-3829-9; 1-283-32704-X; 9786613327048; 0-8131-2636-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824567903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II