500 Best British and Foreign Films to Buy, Rent, Or Videotape
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
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Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign films
ISBN : 9780688068974
A guide to the best American movies that gives such information as casts, plots, and an evaluation.
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,62 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806513027
Laurence Olivier portrayed characters that were as diverse as they were memorable. From Hamlet to Heathcliff, from a Nazi dentist in 'Marathon Man' to a cunning mystery writer in 'Sleuth' his roles made him one of the most highly acclaimed actors of all time. This book celebrates his career, including casts, credits, synopses and production notes from every movie in which he appeared. Photographs illustrate the text, wit hrare candids borrowed from Olivier collectors.
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1467043265
Blonde, vivacious Jean Arthur is best remembered today for her unizue, childlike voice and for the handful of classic Thirties and Forties movies she made for directors Frank Capra and George Stevens, such as You Can't Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The More the Merrier and her last picture Shane, released in 1953. But not many know that her 30-year film career dates from the early Twenties, when she was an inexperienced contract player at Fox. In fact, Arthur appeared in more movies of the silent era (mostly program Westerns and minor comedies) than she made after the advent of sound. Born with the name Gladys Greene in 19-00, Jean Arthur renamed and reinvented herself when she arrived in Hollywood in 1922, fictionizing her background and subtracting eight years from her actual age. Colleagues have recalled the eccentric personality and behind-the-scenes insecurities that negated her popularity with the press and inhibited her later career as a stage and TV star, prompting her eventual retreat into seclusion. All of these exploits and more are detailed in this comprehensive biofilmography by Jerry Vermilye, a much published author who tells his story in a brisk non-judgmental style that has drawn critical praise for his volumes on such legendary film personalities as Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Charles Bronson, Audrey Hepburn, Buster Crabbe, Lawrence Olivier. and Elizabeth Taylor. This book includes casts, production credits and critical commentary on Jean Arthur's many films, as well as 100 scene stills, portraits and candids, many of them are photographs from the author's private collection.
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786451807
Buster Crabbe's chief claim to fame, aside from his Olympic gold medal (for the 400-meter freestyle event in 1932), rests in the trio of movie serials in which he played the popular science-fiction hero Flash Gordon. Crabbe was the only actor to play the roles of Tarzan (in one movie), Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers, the top three pulp action heroes of the 1930s. Crabbe carved out a career that would also include more than 100 B-movies and program Westerns, a television adventure series, and a successful physical fitness enterprise. All of this and more is detailed in this book, which includes a complete filmography providing cast and crew information for each of his 103 feature films and serials.
Author : Bernard A. Drew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1317928938
In 1989 alone, for example, there were some forty-five major motion pictures which were sequels or part of a series. The film series phenomenon crosses all genres and has been around since the silent film era. This reference guide, in alphabetical order, lists some 906 English Language motion pictures, from 1899 to 1990, when the book was initially published. A brief plot description is given for each series entry, followed by the individual film titles with corresponding years, directors and performers. Animated pictures, documentaries and concert films are not included but movies released direct to video are.
Author : Jerry Vermilye
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786411603
He always is very, very close to the camera, and he is terribly inspiring. I don't know what his magic is, but it is something that makes you want to give everything you have. He has respect for actors and for everybody. A bad director very often doesn't have that respect. Liv Ullman's words about Ingmar Bergman hint at the consummate director he was, one who knew the business, the strengths and weaknesses of actors and crews, the arrangement of the set, the framing of the camera, and all other particulars of the fine art of directing. This work presents Bergman's life and work, beginning with his youth in Uppsala, Sweden, and covering his formative years, his development as an artist, and his career as a world-renowned director. A brief synopsis for each of Bergman's films is provided, with such information as producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, art director, music sound credits, running time, casts, Bergman's own comments, and the reactions of critics.
Author : Anthony Slide
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 149681598X
In Magnificent Obsession: The Outrageous History of Film Buffs, Collectors, Scholars, and Fanatics, author Anthony Slide looks at the way film has dominated the minds and lives of film buffs, film collectors, film academics, and just plain fans of past movies. Based on the author's more than fifty years in the field and his personal, up-front knowledge of the subject, chapters provide unique documentation on film buffs who once created a livelihood from their hobby, including long-forgotten Chaw Mank and the vast array of film clubs that he headed and New York radio and television sensation Joe Franklin. The history of fans and their fan clubs are discussed, as well as the first and only periodical, Films in Review, which catered both to film scholars and film buffs. The histories of several legendary film collectors such as David Bradley and Herb Graff are featured, as is Hollywood's Silent Movie Theatre, where film buffs found a home from the 1940s onwards, sharing it with drug dealers, male prostitutes, fantasists, and hit men. Magnificent Obsession is vast in its approach, discussing the entire history of the phenomenon of the film buff from the early 1910s through the present and documenting the manner in which film buffs have changed--thanks to the internet--from relatively gentle and kind individuals to the obsessive, sometimes overbearing, and often self-important film buffs of today.
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 2154 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1989
Category : American literature
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A world list of books in the English language.