Author : Katharine Hepburn
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,12 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780394562728
This volume recalls the adventures of Katharine Hepburn, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart, and Lauren Bacall during the grueling, on-location filming of The African Queen which prove to be as entertaining and unforgettable as the film classic itself. Includes 45 behind the scenes photos. Hepburn recalls her experience of making this popular film, revealing her emotional highs and lows during the filming, her competitiveness, and her insecurities.
Author : Katharine Hepburn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1988-10
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780099569404
Author : Dennis Bingham
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Drawing parallels between acting and star-making and such concepts of gender identity as masquerade and role playing, Dennis Bingham points out tensions between the mask of masculinity and the 'naturalness' designed to obscure it.
Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : White Owl
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2024-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399074059
Chronicles the turbulent Hollywood love story of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, navigating fame, adversity, and enduring passion against all odds. It was the Hollywood romance that warmed hearts and thrilled audiences, but the path to true love was littered with alcoholism, abandonment and bitter disappointments. Humphrey Bogart had crawled up the hard way, leaving behind a childhood without affection for a life as the idol of millions. Bogie’s road to stardom had been long and tough, forging a superstar who hated being in the spotlight as much as he loved being in the bar. With three marriages to his name and a reputation as one of the hardest drinkers in Hollywood, happiness was always fleeting. Lauren Bacall grew up in New York as the apple of her hard-working mother’s eye, dreaming of a life in the limelight. Modelling by day and tearing tickets at night, when she was summoned to Hollywood to make a screentest, young Betty Bacall grabbed it with both hands. There she was reborn as the vampish Lauren Bacall, a teenage nobody who would make her debut in To Have and Have Not opposite the quintessential Hollywood tough guy, Humphrey Bogart. Nobody expected what came next, but the love affair between Bogie and Bacall took the world by storm. The Real Bogie & Bacall tells the story of two people whose romance shouldn’t have worked… but did.
Author : Museyon Guides
Publisher : Museyon
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1938450345
Featuring color photographs of movie locations, sites, and landmarks, this guide for film buffs and travel lovers provides information about notable scenes from 139 movies shot throughout Asia, Oceania, and Africa. Drive into the parking garage at the University of Melbourne and follow in the footsteps of Mel Gibson in Mad Max. Go to the 83rd floor of the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong and see where Angelina Jolie jumped in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Whisper your deepest desires into the walls of Ta Prom Temple in Cambodia and re-create In the Mood for Love. Warm up your vocal chords at Karaoke-kan in Tokyo and pay homage to Lost in Translation. Discover which tiny Tasmanian town of 300 residents inspires Hayao Miyazaki, the anime mastermind behind Spirited Away and Kiki's Delivery Service. Find out when the scenery of Vietnam is in Cambodia and when it's in Puerto Rico and much, much more.
Author : Jerome Pohlen
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1569764646
This entertaining guide directs travelers to the off-the-wall and offbeat destinations in Florida, home of gator wrestlers, school bus demolition derbies, Hemingway wannabes, the Fountain of Youth, the Nudist Hall of Fame, and a utopian community based on the premise that the earth is not round, but concave. Additional oddball attractions include a graveyard for roosters, the world's largest strawberry, the world's smallest police station, and museums dedicated to seashells, hamburgers, oranges, teddy bears, sponges, air conditioning, and one very old petrified cat. Documenting local oddities and forgotten history, this travel guide covers Florida in six regions with maps and detailed directions for each site as well as phone numbers, hours, web sites, and various photographs.
Author : Andrew Britton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231132763
In what can be considered one of the very few analyses of American cinema to focus on a film star rather than a director or a genre, Britton proposes a feminist reading of Hepburn's films, arguing that her persona raises problems about class, female sexuality, and women's oppression that strain to the limits the conventions of a cinema ultimately committed to the reassertion of bourgeois gender roles.
Author : Lesley Brill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780521586702
John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest American independent filmmakers. Always visually exciting, Huston's films sensitively portray humankind in all its incarnations, chronicling the attempts by protagonists to conceive and articulate their identities. Fundamental questions of selfhood, happiness and love are intimately connected to the idea of home, which for the filmmaker also signified a congenial place among other people in the world. In this study, Lesley Brill shows Huston's films to be far more than formulaic adventures of masculine failure, arguing instead that they demonstrate the close connection between humanity, the natural world, and divinity.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 1990-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521365598
This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Author : Ed Harris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1445611872
From the first Sherlock Holmes film to the African Queen, the only full account of this important film studio
