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“The whole history of art is no more than a massive footnote to the history of film.”
— critic Hollis Frampton
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  | Magic Lantern's cinema historian Kevin Brownlow Page often worked with David Gill {below} browse books • browse DVDs • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
Marxist cinema historian Noël Burch [b. 1932]
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 | "What Do Those Old Films Mean?" [Britain's Channel 4 1985] A spellbinding journey into the early years of filmmaking in six countries – Great Britain, the U.S., Denmark, France, the U.S.S.R., and Germany – using beautifully transferred prints gathered from the world's archives, that looks at how and why film became an art, and how it reflected and answered social needs and problems. Each silent film segment is accompanied by a newly-commissioned musical score {said by some to be 'irritating'}. Written & directed by Noël Burch • full credits at IMDb complete series of six episodes Facets Video color/b&w VHS [2/2000] 3 tapes for $19.95 Volume 1: "Along The Great Divide: Great Britain, 1900-1912" and "Tomorrow The World: USA, 1902-1914" Facets Video color/b&w VHS [2/2000] out of prodn/rare Volume 2: "She!: Denmark, 1902-1914" and "The Enemy Below: France, 1904-1912" Facets Video color/b&w VHS [2/2000] out of prodn/rare Volume 3: "Born Yesterday: U.S.S.R., 1926-1930" and "Under Two Flags: Germany, 1926-1932" Facets Video color/b&w VHS [2/2000] for $14.95 |
Charlotte Chandler
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http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Must-Be-Going-Groucho/dp/1416544224/ [1978]
The Ultimate Seduction = TN Williams [1984] ISBN 0-3851-8953-2
http://www.amazon.com/Io-Federico-Fellini-Ingrandimenti-Italian/dp/8804392037/ [1995]
http://www.amazon.com/Nobodys-Perfect-Personal-Biography-Applause/dp/B003D7JV84/ [2002]
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Only-Movie-Hitchcock-Biography/dp/1557836922/ [2005]
http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Who-Walked-Home-Alone/dp/0743262085/ [2006]
http://www.amazon.com/Ingrid-Bergman-Personal-Biography/dp/B001O0EHTK/ [2007]
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Girl-Next-Door-Biography/dp/1451623984/ [2008]
http://www.amazon.com/She-Always-Knew-How-Biography/dp/1416579095/ [2/2009]
http://www.amazon.com/Know-Where-Going-Katharine-Biography/dp/B0048ELDTQ/ [3/2010]
http://www.amazon.com/Marlene-Dietrich-Personal-Biography/dp/1439188351/ [3/2011]
cinema historian Bernard F. Dick []
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 | "Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures & The Birth of Corporate Hollywood" [1980] by Bernard F. Dick Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/2001] for $35.00 |
 | "Hellman In Hollywood" [1982] by Bernard F. Dick Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 8¾x6 hardcover [12/82] for $29.50 |
 | "The Star-Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film" [1985] by Bernard F. Dick Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [12/96] for $22.00 Univ Press of KY 9¾x6½ hardcover [8/85] out of print/used |
 | "Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of The Hollywood Ten" [1989] by Bernard F. Dick Univ Press of KY 9½x6¼ hardcover [2/89] for $35.00 more info on Magic Lantern's Hollywood Blacklist Pages |
 | "Columbia Pictures: Portrait of A Studio" [1991] by Bernard F. Dick Univ Press of KY 9½x6½ hardcover [10/91] for $24.95 |
 | "City of Dreams: The Making & Remaking of Universal Pictures" [1997] by Bernard F. Dick Univ Press of KY 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/97] for $35.00 |
"The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures" [1993]
by Bernard F. Dick 0813118417
"Anatomy of Film" [2001] by Bernard F. Dick 0312259441
"Hal Wallis: Producer To The Stars" [2004] by Bernard F. Dick 0813123178
![color photo of cinéaste & reviewer William K. Everson [1929-96]](images/WmKEverson-color.jpg) | cinéaste & reviewer William K. Everson [1929-96] browse books • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
"Silents Please" 4-episode TV series [1961] /tt0053536/
Hosted by Ernie Kovacs, researched by William K. Everson
"Hollywood Bedlam: Classic Screwball Comedies" [1994]
 | "American Classic Screen: Interviews" [2010] Edited by John C. Tibbetts & James M. Welsh, Foreword by Kevin Brownlow Scarecrow Press 8¾x6 pb [8/2010] for $36.52 American Classic Screen Magazine [1976-86] was published by The National Film Society; these exclusive interviews have long been difficult or impossible to access, but are now collected by editors Tibbetts & Welsh; the Interviews include: Fred Astaire, Joan Bennett, Bernard Brown, Kevin Brownlow, Frank Capra, William Clothier, Buster Crabbe, Olivia de Havilland, Stanley Donen, Olivia DeHavilland, Irene Dunne, William K. Everson, Joan Fontaine, Friz Freleng, Margaret Hamilton, Winton C. Hoch, Ollie Johnston, Henry King, Mervyn Le Roy, Fred MacMurray, Glen MacWilliams, Rouben Mamoulian, Mike Mazurki, Clarence 'Ducky' Nash, Paul Newman, Hermes Pan, Robert Preston, Esther Ralston, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers & Jane Withers |
film historian Scott Eyman
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recent books on John Ford, Mary Pickford, Ernst Lubitsch, VMinnelli
"Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter In Paradise" [] by Scott Eyman 0801865581
entertainment biographer Michael Freedman
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"Cagney: A Biography" [1975] by Michael Freedland
"The Two Lives of Errol Flynn" [1979] by Michael Freedland
see also Magic Lantern's Errol Flynn [1909-59] Page
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"The Warner Brothers" [1983] by Michael Freedland
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"Katharine Hepburn" biography [1984] by Michael Freedland
"Peter O'Toole: A Biography" [1985] by Michael Freedland
"The Secret Life of Danny Kaye" [1985] by Michael Freedland /0491039808/
see also Magic Lantern's Danny Kaye [1913-87] Page
"The Goldwyn Touch: A Biography of Sam Goldwyn" [1986] by Michael Freedland
"Jane Fonda: A Biography" [1989] by Michael Freedland
"Bing Crosby: The Illustrated Biography" [1998] by Michael Freedland
"All The Way: A Biography of Frank Sinatra" [1998] by Michael Freedland
"Bob Hope: An Illustrated Biography" [2001] by Michael Freedland
"Doris Day: The Illustrated Biography" [2001] by Michael Freedland
"Confessions of A Serial Biographer" [2005] by Michael Freedland 9780853036197
"Hollywood On Trial: McCarthyism's War Against The Movies" [2008]
by Michael Freedland, with Barbra Paskin
"Witch Hunt In Hollywood: McCarthyism's War On Tinseltown" [2009] by Michael Freedland
see also Spirit of America's Joseph McCarthy [1908-57] Page
 | "The Men Who Made Hollywood: The Lives of The Great Movie Moguls" [2009] by Michael Freedland chapters/subjects include Harry Cohn, Sam Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner Brothers & Adolph Zukor JR Books Ltd 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2009] out of print/used |
cinema historian David Gill [1928-97]
often worked with Kevin Brownlow {above}
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cinema historian Ronald Haver [1939-93]
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"David O. Selznick's Hollywood" [1980] by Ronald Haver
Random House hardcover [6/87] out of print/used
Knopf hardcover [10/80] for $85.00
"A Star Is Born: The Making of The 1954 Movie and Its 1983 Restoration" [1988]
by Ronald Haver 9780060972745
photo historian John Kobal [1940-91] of U.K.
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 | "Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Photos of Stars, 1926-1949" [1976] Edited by John Kobal Dover Publns 11¼x8½ pb [7/76] for $11.06 |
 | "Movie-Star Portraits of The Forties: 163 Glamour Photos" [1977] Edited by John Kobal Dover Publns 11¼x8½ pb [6/77] for $13.14 |
 | "Movie-Star Portraits of The Fifties: 163 Glamour Photos" [1980] Edited by John Kobal Dover Publns 11x8¼ pb [8/80] for $12.71 |
cinema historian Kalton C. Lahue [?-??]
Lack of information keeps this person obscure; his books on cinema were published
1964 to 1973; later books were about photography and automobiles, thru 1995.
"Continued Next Week: A History of The Moving Picture Serial" [1964]
by Kalton C. Lahue
Univ OK Press hardcover [1969] out of print/used
Univ OK Press hardcover [1964] out of print/used
"World of Laughter: The Motion Picture Comedy Short, 1910-1930" [1966]
by Kalton C. Lahue
Univ OK Press pb [12/72] out of print/used
Univ OK Press hardcover [11/66] out of print/used
Univ OK Press hardcover [11/66] out of print/used
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"Bound and Gagged: The Story of The Silent Serials" [1968] by Kalton C. Lahue Oak Tree Publns hardcover [1968] out of print/used Castle Books hardcover [1968] out of print/used Castle Books hardcover [1968] out of print/used |
 | "Kops and Custards: The Legend of Keystone Films" [1968] by Kalton C. Lahue & Terry Brewer Univ OK Press pb [1/68] out of print/used Univ OK Press hardcover [6/77] out of print/used |
 | "Winners of The West: The Sagebrush Heroes of The Silent Screen" [1971] by Kalton C. Lahue A.S. Barnes hardcover [1971] out of print/used |
"Mack Sennett's Keystone: The Man, The Myth & The Comedies" [1971]
by Kalton C Lahue
A.S. Barnes hardcover [1971] out of print/used
"Dreams For Sale: The Rise & Fall of The Triangle Film Corporation" [1971]
by Kalton C. Lahue
A.S. Barnes hardcover [1971] out of print/used
 | "Ladies In Distress" [1971] by Kalton C. Lahue
A.S. Barnes 10x6½ hardcover [1971] out of print/used The Silent Era actresses profiled are: Mary Astor, Theda Bara, Beverly Bayne, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, Grace Cunard, Marion Davies, Priscilla Dean, Dolores Del Rio, Geraldine Farra, Pauline Frederick, Greta Garbo, Lillian Gish, Elaine Hammerstein, Juanita Hansen, Leatrice Joy, Alice Joyce, Barbara Lamarr, Lila Lee, Bessie Love, Mae Marsh, Mary Miles Minter, Mae Murray, Nita Naldi, Jane Novak, Olga Petrova, Mary Pickford, Arline Pretty, Aileen Pringle, Allene Ray, Marin Saris, Norma Shearer, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge, Alice Terry, Florence Vidor, Fannie Ward, Kathlyn Williams & Clara Kimball Young |
 | "Gentlemen To The Rescue: The Heroes of The Silent Screen" [1972] by Kalton C. Lahue A.S. Barnes hardcover [1972] out of print/used Short profiles of 30 Silent Era actors, including: King Baggot, John Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, Lon Chaney, Richard Dix, Douglas Fairbanks, Sessue Hayakawa, Rod La Rocque, Rudolph Valentino, Henry B. Walthall & Ben Wilson |
 | "Riders of The Range: The Sagebrush Heroes of The Sound Screen" [1973] by Kalton C. Lahue A.S. Barnes 9x6½ hardcover [1973] out of print/used Castle 10x6¾ hardcover [1973] out of print/used |
Hollywood historian Richard Lamparski [b. 1932]
Had a radio show based in Hollywood, California from 1965; published a series of 11 books from 1967 to 1989
that each contained biographical material on 100 faded stars or actors or directors, largely based on live interviews
in the subject's home • not listed on IMDb • no entry at Wikipedia
2010 interview with Richard Lamparski, text posted Nov 2010 on Showbiz Wizard's weblog
"Whatever Became of . . ?" books
by Richard Lamparski, published by Crown Books, 1967-89
174 'WEBO' radio shows [1965-75] from Old Time Radio Catalog on 3 MP3 disks for $15.00
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First Series: Bantam/Ace pb [1/2000] out of print/used
Second Series: hardcover [6/68] out of print/used Third Series: hardcover [6/70] out of print/used Fourth Series: hardcover [9/73] out of print/many used Fifth Series: hardcover [1975] out of print/many used Eighth Series: hardcover [9/82] out of print/used • bargain edition [1/85] many used Ninth Series: hardcover [1/85] out of print/used • pb [5/84] many used Tenth Series: hardcover [11/86] out of print/used • pb [4/88] many used Eleventh Series: hardcover [5/89] out of print/used • pb [5/89] many used |
 | "Lamparski's Hidden Hollywood: Where The Stars Lived, Loved, and Died" [1981] Written & Authenticated by Richard Lamparski "Photos and addresses of the former homes, haunts, graves, studios, and murder & suicide scenes of Hollywood's Golden Age by the author of "Whatever Became of ...?" Fireside 10x6¾ pb [8/81] out of print/many used |
 | "Hollywood Diary: Twelve Untold Tales" [2006] A Work of Non-Fiction by Richard Lamparski Chapters/subjects include "A Star Is Born" [1954?], Gary Cooper, Quentin Crisp, Richard Crom-well, "The Grapes of Wrath" [1940], Rock Hudson, Patsy Kelly, Martin Kosleck, Zeppo Marx, Pola Negri, Darla Hood of 'Our Gang', Tommy Rettig, Soupy Sales, Robert Taylor, and Mae West BearManor Media 8¾x6 pb [6/2006] for $19.95 |
 | "Manhattan Diary: Twelve Never-Before-Revealed Stories" [2006] A Work of Non-Fiction by Richard Lamparski Chapters/subjects include Fred Astaire, Tallulah Bankhead, Lynn Bari, Joan Bennett, Lenny Bruce, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Olivia DeHavilland, Christine Jorgensen, Sammy Kaye, Ruby Keeler, Peggy Lee, Dorothy Parker, Gloria Swanson, and Sharon Tate BearManor Media 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $19.95 |
 | cinema historian David W. Menefee browse books • official website 'propmaker' credits at IMDb • Wikipedia |
"A Craving For Travel II" [] (with Jim Strong)
"Charlie O’Doone’s Second Chance and Other Stories" []
"Sarah Bernhardt In The Theater of Films & Sound Recordings" [10/2003]
Foreword by Kevin Brownlow
 | "The First Female Stars: Women of The Silent Era" [2004] by David W. Menefee Praeger Publrs 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2004] for $46.95 Chapters/subjects include Theda Bara, Beverly Bayne, Sarah Bernhardt, Pauline Frederick, Carol Dempster, Gene Gauntier, Janet Gaynor, Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Mae Murray, Alla Nazimova, Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Laurette Taylor & Pearl White |
 | "The First Male Stars: Men of The Silent Era" [2007] by David W. Menefee BearManor Media 9x6 pb [10/2007] for $29.95 covered actors include: John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, John Bunny, Francis X. Bushman, Lon Chaney, Jackie Coogan, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Antonio Moreno, Jack Pickford, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino & Crane Wilbur |
 | "Richard Barthelmess: A Life in Pictures" biography [2009] by David W. Menefee BearManor Media 8¾x6 pb [2/2009] for $29.95 |
"George O'Brien: A Man's Man In Hollywood" [10/2009]
"Otay! The Billy 'Buckwheat' Thomas Story" [2/2010] with William Thomas, Jr.
 | "Wally: The True Wallace Reid Story" [2011] by David W. Menefee, Foreword by Robert Osborne BearManor Media 9x6 pb [1/2011] for $34.95 watch official book promo video [3:02] on YouTube |
 | "The Rise and Fall of Lou Tellegen" [4/2011] by David W. Menefee CreateSpace 9x6 pb [4/2011] for $24.95 watch official book promo video [3:00] on YouTube |
"Brothers of The Storm" [novel 4/2011]
"The Remarkable Mr. Messing" [novel 4/2011]
 | "Falling Stars: Ten Who Tried To Be A Movie Star" [2011] by David W. Menefee Profiles include Maude Adams, Enrico Caruso, Eleonora Duse, Mary Garden, Harry Houdini, Helen Keller, Anna Pavlova, Lottie Pickford, Babe Ruth, and Otis Skinner CreateSpace 9x6 pb [8/2011] for $14.95 |
 | "Sweet Memories: A Novel" [2012] by David W. Menefee  The life of Gladys Smith, a little girl from Toronto, who became movie star Mary Pickford, {as if} told by her mother Charlotte. CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2/2012] for $14.95 |
cinema historian James Robert Parish
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 | "The Fox Girls: Starring 15 Beautiful Vixens and One Adorable Cub" [1971] by James Robert Parish, with 850 b&w photographs featuring Theda Bara, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Alice Faye, Janet Gaynor, Betty Grable, June Haver, skater Sonja Henie, Carmen Miranda, Marilyn Monroe, Sheree North, Shirley Temple {the 'cub'}, Gene Tierney, Raquel Welch & Loretta Young Arlington House hardcover [1972] out of print/used Arlington House hardcover [1971] out of print/many used |
 | "The Slapstick Queens" [1973] by James Robert Parish Oak Tree Publns hardcover [3/77] out of print/used A.S. Barnes hardcover [1973] out of print/used |
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"The M.G.M. Stock Company: The Golden Era" [1974] by James Robert Parish & Ronald L. Bowers Outlet 9x6 hardcover [10/77] out of print/used Allan hardcover [1974] out of print/used |
 | "The Great Gangster Pictures" [1976] by James Robert Parish Scarecrow hardcover [5/76] out of stock/used "The Great Gangster Pictures II" [1987] by James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Scarecrow hardcover [5/87] for $50.00 |
 | "The Great Western Pictures" [1976] by James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Scarecrow hardcover [12/76] out of print/used "The Great Western Pictures II" [1988] by James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Scarecrow hardcover [7/88] for $55.00 |
"The Best of M.G.M.: The Golden Years, 1928-59" [1981]
by James Robert Parish, Gregory W. Mank & Richard Picchiarini
Arlington House hardcover [1981] out of print/used
 | "The Great Detective Pictures" [1990] by James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Scarecrow Press hardcover [8/90] for $70.00 |
 | "The Great Combat Pictures: Twentieth-Century Warfare On The Screen" [1990] by James Robert Parish Scarecrow Press 9x6½ hardcover [9/90] for $74.80 |
 | "The Great Hollywood Musical Pictures" [1993] by James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Scarecrow Press 9x6 hardcover [9/93] out of print/used |
critic & historian Donald Richie
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IMDb listing •
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received the 1990 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
2003 interview with Donald Richie at Midnight Eye website
 | "Ozu" [1977] by Donald Richie Univ of CA Press 9x6 pb [7/77] for $24.95 |
 | "The Japanese Film: Art & Industry" [1983] by Joseph L. Anderson & Donald Richie Princeton Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [2/83] for $25.05 Princeton Univ Press hardcover [2/83] out of print/used |
 | "The Films of Akira Kurosawa" [rev 1999] by Donald Richie & Joan Mellen Univ CA Press 10x9¾ 3rd edition pb [1/99] for $19.77 |
 | "The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing On Japan" [2001] Edited by Arturo Silva Stone Bridge Press 9x7 pb [6/2001] for $15.56 Stone Bridge Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2001] out of print/used |
 | "A Hundred Years of Japanese Film" [2002] by Donald Richie Kodansha 8.4x7 hardcover [2/2002] for $21.00 see also Magic Lantern's Cinema of Japan Page |
"Sneaking In: Donald Richie's Life In Film" [2002]
Directed by Prinzgau-Podgorschek/Navigator Film, Vienna
 | "A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki" [Marty Gross Films 2007?]
Co-produced & directed by Michael Goldberg; includes video interviews with poet Gary Snyder, Zen master Robert Aitken, religious scholar Huston Smith & cinema critic Donald Richie, and audio of D.T. Suzuki, composer John Cage, psychoanalyst Erich Fromm & Trappist monk Thomas Merton Marty Gross Films color DVD [2/2008] for $49.95 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "A Donald Richie Film Anthology, 1962-68" [Marty Gross Films 2008?] imported from Japan, Japanese with English subtitles; DVD includes "Wargames" [22 minutes, 1962], "Atami Blues" [20 minutes, 1962], "Boy With Cat" [5 minutes, 1967], "Dead Youth" [13 minutes, 1967], "Five Filosophical Fables" [47 minutes, 1967] and "Cybele" [20 minutes, 1968] direct purchase for $70 retail, $150 institutional |
preservationist David Shepard
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received the 2000 Mel Novikoff Award [est. 1988] from San Francisco Intl. Film Festival [est. 1954]
"D.W. Griffith: A Biograph Treasury" [1975] by David Shepard out of print/scarce
"King Vidor by King Vidor, Interviewed by Nancy Dowd & David Shepard" [1988] /0810821613/
"Henry King, Director: From Silents To 'Scope" [1995] by David Shepard /1882766032/
"My Seventy Years at Paramount Studios and the Directors Guild of America" [2/96]
by Joseph C. Youngerman, Interviewed by Ira Skutch & David Shepard /1882766024/
historian & editor Anthony Slide of U.K. & Hollywood
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"THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF VAUDEVILLE" [1994]
"Selected Film Criticism" [1982] by Anthony Slide /0810815257
 | "Griffith and The Rise of Hollywood" [1970] by Paul O'Dell, with Anthony Slide A.S. Barnes pb [1970] out of print/used A.S. Barnes hardcover [1971] out of print/used Castle Books hardcover [1970] out of print/used |
 | "The Big V: A History of The Vitagraph Company" [1976] by Anthony Slide Scarecrow Press 'new & revised' 8¾x5½ hardcover [9/87] for $59.50 |
 | "Early Women Directors: Their Role In The Development of The Silent Cinema" [1977] by Anthony Slide this book effectively replaced by Slide's "Silent Feminists" [1996] book below Da Capo Press hardcover [1/84] out of print/used A.S. Barnes hardcover [1/77] out of print/used |
 | "Fifty Great American Silent Films, 1912-1920: A Pictorial Survey" [1980] by Anthony Slide Dover Publng hardcover [6/80] out of print/used |
 | "The American Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary" [1986] by Anthony Slide Limelight Editions 9x6 pb [6/90] out of print/used Greenwood Publng Group 9¼x6¼ hardcover [7/86] out of print/used see also the 1998/2001 'New' edition below |
 | "The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché" [1986] Translated by Roberta & Simone Blaché, edited by Anthony Slide The only woman filmmaker to this day who owned her own studio. Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ hardcover [5/96] for $29.50 Scarecrow Press hardcover [8/86] out pf print/used |
 | "The Picture Dancing On A Screen: Poetry of The Cinema" [1988] Edited by Anthony Slide Rowman & Littlefield / Vestal Press 10x7 pb [4/88] for $13.22 |
 | "The International Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary" [1989] by Anthony Slide sequel/companion to "The American Film Industry: A Historical Dictionary" [1986] hardcover [3/89] out of print/used |
 | "Nitrate Won't Wait: A History of Film Preservation In The United States" [1992] by Anthony Slide
McFarland & Co. 8¾x6 pb [8/2000] for $30.00 McFarland & Co. hardcover [2/92] out of print/used Magic Lantern's Cinema History Page / Film Preservation Dept. |
 | "The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors" [indep release 1993] 45-minute documentary film co-directed by Anthony Slide & Jeffrey Goodman; narrated by Jane Wyatt Direct Cinema Ltd. DVD [7/2009] out of prodn/scarce credits at IMDb see also 1996 companion book below |
 | "The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide To Over 1200 Works With Film-Related Themes or Characters, 1912-1994" [1995] by Anthony Slide McFarland & Co. 9¼x6¼ pb [7/95] for $49.95 |
 | "The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors" [1996] by Anthony Slide Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ pb [6/96] for $40.19 companion book to the 1993 docufilm {above}; same as 1977/1984 book, plus two added chapters; examines careers of cinema's female pioneers Dorothy Arzner, Alice Guy-Blaché, Frances Marion, Ida May Park, Mrs. Wallace Reid, Lois Weber, Margery Wilson, and others |
 | "The New Historical Dictionary of The American Film Industry" [1998] by Anthony Slide Scarecrow Press 11x8½ pb [3/2001] for $27.58 Scarecrow Press 11¼x8¾ hardcover [6/98] for $68.07 |
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"Silent Players: A Biographical & Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors & Actresses" [2002] by Anthony Slide Univ Press KY 10¼x7¼ hardcover [9/2002] for $28.00 |
 | "American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon" [2004] by Anthony Slide Univ Press of KY 9x6 pb [9/2004] for $35.00 Dixon's books were the basis for D.W. Griffith's |
 | "Now Playing: Hand-Painted Poster Art From The 1910s Through The 1950s" [2007] by Anthony Slide, with Jane Burman Powell & Lori Goldman Berthelsen Angel City Press 14¼x11 hardcover [5/2007] for $33.75 |
 | "Inside The Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators & Gossip Mongers" [2010] by Anthony Slide Univ Press of MS 10x7¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $32.00 |
 | "A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith" [2010] by Anthony Slide New York writer Thorne Smith [1892-1934] is most famous for the 'Topper' novels and films, as well as several other filmed novels involving witches or ghosts BearManor Media 8¾x6 pb [3/2010] for $19.95 |
biographer James Spada
New York Times best-selling author of biographies of Princess Grace, Peter Lawford, Bette Davis,
Barbra Streisand, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe, The Kennedys, Ronald Reagan, The Bush Family,
Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, and others
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IMDb listing
historian & editor Jon Tuska Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
writes books about Western movies, films noir & cinema, and edits Western fiction anthologies
 | photo historian Marc Wanamaker
browse books • IMDb listing [since 1980] founder of the Hollywood Heritage Museum
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