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Hollywood People
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Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of The 1970s & 1980s" [2006] by Patrick McGilligan Univ CA Press pb [1/2006] for $18.96 Univ CA Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $60.00 |
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"The Golden West: Hollywood Stories" [2005] by Daniel Fuchs [1909-93]; Introduction by John Updike includes short fiction & non-fiction, and the novella "West of The Rockies" [1971] Black Sparrow 8½x6 pb [10/2006] for $13.22 Black Sparrow/Godine 9x6 hardcover [5/2005] for $18.96 Daniel Fuchs's credits at IMDb |
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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 |
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"The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood" [2001] by Coy Watson, Jr. Santa Monica Press 10¾x8½ pb [11/2001] for $24.95 |
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"Walt Disney's Nine Old Men" [2001] by John Canemaker Hyperion 12¼x9¼ hardcover [10/2001] for $42.00 Walt Disney info |
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"Mayer and Thalberg: The Make Believe Saints" [1975] by Samuel Marx New Millennium Press pb [11/2003] for $16.94 Warner Books mass pb [11/80] out of print/used |
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"Lion of Hollywood: The Life & Legend of Louis B. Mayer" [2005] by Scott Eyman S&S 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2005] for $22.05 Chrysalis Books hardcover [5/2005] out of print/used |
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"Budd Schulberg" [2001] by Nicholas Beck
The first full biography of the son of a Paramount studio mogul who was a novelist – "What Makes Sammy Run?" {see below} & others – short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter – "On The Waterfront" (1954) – and journalist. Rowman & Littlefield 8¾x5½ hardcover [9/2001] for $35.00 Budd Schulberg's credits at IMDb |
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"The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story" [Disney Oct 1999] documentary feature directed by Leslie Iwerks Disney Home Video VHS [9/2001] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb companion book "The Hand Behind the Mouse: An Intimate Biography of Ub Iwerks" [2001] by Leslie Iwerks & John D. Kenworthy Hyperion 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2001] for $17.47 Ub Iwerks credits at IMDb |
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"Backstory 3: Interviews With Screenwriters of The 1960s" [1997] Edited by Patrick McGilligan Univ Calif Press 9x6 pb [3/97] for $24.95 Univ Calif Press 9¼x6.4 hardcover [3/97] out of print/used |
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"Backstory 2: Interviews With Screenwriters of The 1940s and 1950s" [1991] Edited by Patrick McGilligan Univ Calif Press 9x6 pb [5/97] for $24.95 Univ Calif Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/91] out of print/used |
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"Backstory 1: Interviews With Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age" [1986] Edited by Patrick McGilligan Univ California Press 9x6 pb [11/89] for $24.95 Univ California Press hardcover [12/86] out of print/used |
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"Some Time In The Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & James Agee" [1981] by Tom Dardis Limelight pb [2/99] for $12.95 |
Hollywood & Women
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"Women Filmmakers In Early Hollywood" [2006] by Karen Ward Mahar Johns Hopkins Univ Press hardcover [10/2006] for $42.30 |
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"Projections 13: Women Filmmakers On Filmmaking" [2005] Edited by Isabella Weibrecht & John Boorman interviewees include Allison Anders, Susanne Bier, Claire Binns, Rosa Bosch, Denise Breton, Lisa Cholodenko, Pauline Kael, Anna Karina, Katia Lund, Frances McDormand, Heather McGowan, Rebecca Miller, Emily Mortimer, Ramona Sánchez & Libby Savill Faber & Faber 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $24.64 |
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"Women Behind The Camera: Conversations With Camerawomen" [1997] by Alexis Krasilovsky Praeger 9¼x6 pb [4/97] for $35.00 Praeger 9¾x6½ hardcover [4/97] for $67.95 author credits at IMDb "Women Behind The Camera" documentary film [in production 2006] video/DVD not yet available; full credits at IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
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"The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors" [1996] by Anthony Slide Scarecrow Press 8½x5½ pb [6/96] for $37.50 there is a companion video [1994] not available at Amazon "Early Women Directors" [1977] by Anthony Slide
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"A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke To Women, 1930-1960" [1993] by Jeanine Basinger Wesleyan Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [5/95] for $17.61 Knopf 9½x6½ hardcover [8/93] out of print/many used |
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"The Desire To Desire: The Woman's Film of The 1940s" [1987] by Mary Ann Doane Indiana Univ Press 9&frax14x6 pb [6/87] for $22.95 Indiana Univ Press hardcover [6/87] out of print/used |
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"Women Who Run The Show: How A Brilliant & Creative New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, 1973-2000" [2002] by Mollie Gregory St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2002] for $18.87 |
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"Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of The Cinema" [2002] by Alison McMahan "A monumental job..." — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times Continuum 9.4x6.4 hardcover [3/2002] for $24.50 AGB credits from IMDb |
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"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 ABG credits from IMDb |
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"Great Women of Film" [2002] by Helena Lumme, photographs by Mika Manninen Billboard Books 10½x9 pb [3/2002] for $29.95 |
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"Complicated Women: Sex & Power In Pre-Code Hollywood" [2000] by Mick LaSalle St. Martin/Griffin 9¼x6 pb [12/2001] for $11.53 St. Martin 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2000] out of print/used |
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"Without Lying Down: Frances Marion & The Powerful Women of Early Hollywood" [1997] by Cari Beauchamp Univ California Press 9x6 pb [5/98] for $13.97 Scribner 9½x6½ hardcover [3/97] out of print/used tv movie [Chaise Lounge/UCLA 2000]: Image Ent. b&w/color DVD [3/2003] for $26.99 Milestone color/b&w VHS [11/2001] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb Francis Marion at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore |
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"From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women In The Movies" [1974; 2nd edition 1987] by Molly Haskell Univ Chicago Press pb [10/87] for $12.92 Univ Chicago Press hardcover [10/87] out of print/used Holt Rinehart Winston hardcover [1/74] out of print/used |
Fiction About Hollywood & Cinema
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The first third of the book looks inside a Hollywood studio after World War II; the second third brings in the anti-Communist 'witch-hunts' of the early H.U.A.C. blacklist era; the final third is the actual murder mystery. Signet mass pb [DUE Sept 2008] pre-order for $9.99 Putnam 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2008] for $15.09 |
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"Hollywood and Crime: Original Crime Stories Set During The History of Hollywood" [2007] Edited by Robert J. Randisi featuring stories by Michael Connelly, Terence Faherty, Bill Pronzini, Ken Kuhlken, Lee Goldberg, Max Allan Collins, Christine Matthews, Les Roberts, Stuart Kaminsky, and Dick Lochte Pegasus hardcover [3/2007] for $16.32 |
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"The Blanchard Brothers Film Company" [2007] by R.D. Snowcroft A group of unemployed actors in 1911 New Jersey band together to make one-reeler movies and find sudden and fleeting success, except for one who goes on to stardom in Hollywood. Hampshire House Publng 8&frac13x5½ pb [1/2007] for $10.36 Hampshire House Publng 8½x5½ hardcover [1/2007] for $21.95 |
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"John O'Hara's Hollywood, 1932-1974" [22 stories 2006] by John O'Hara, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli Da Capo Press / Carroll & Graf 8x5½ pb [1/2007] for $13.46 |
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"Nickel-Plated Dream" [2006] by Stephen Lodge
The rowdy escapades of The Kid and his faithful Indian companion among B-movie film companies in 1950s Texas, Arizona & Hollywood. Behler Publns 8½x5½ pb [5/2006] for $10.17 author's website |
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"Action!" [2003] by Robert W. Cort [producer of 52 films] Random House 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2004] for $14.95 Random House 9¾x6 hardcover [6/2003] out of print/many used |
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"San Remo Drive: A Novel From Memory" [2003] by Leslie Epstein "one of the four best Hollywood books ever written" — Elizabeth Frank, New York Times Book Review; listed in 'L.A. Times 100 Best Books of 2003' Handsel Books 8¾x6 pb [7/2004] for $12.35 Handsel Books 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2003] for $24.00 |
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"Scavenger Hunt" [2003] by Robert Ferrigno A dead Hollywood director, a missing screenplay . . . Vantage 8x5¼ pb [2/2004] for $10.40 Pantheon 9x6¾ hardcover [1/2003] for $17.47 |
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"Hollywood Tough: A Shane Scully Novel" [2003] by tv producer Stephen J. Cannell St Martin hardcover [1/2003] for $17.47 Audio Renaissance UNABR audio [1/2003] for $25.87 Chivers ABR audio CD [1/2003] for $81.94 official booksite |
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"Let's All Kill Constance" [2002] by Ray Bradbury "Bradbury's depiction of Hollywood as its first great glory begins to deteriorate effectively recaptures the past ... and he does so with more [bellylaughs] than nostalgia." — Paula Friedman, Los Angeles Times HarperCollins 8½x5¾ hardcover [12/2002] for $16.77 |
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"The Dream Factory: A Novel About The Power of Secrets In A Town Built On Illusions" [2002] by Janet Leigh Mira mass pb [1/2003] out of print/used Mira 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2002] out of print/many used |
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"Stormy Weather: A Charlotte Justice Mystery" [2001] by Paula L. Woods One World pb [7/2002] for $11.20 W.W.Norton 8½x5¾ hardcover [8/2001] for $17.47 |
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"The Hollywood Murders" [2000] 3 stories by Ellery Queen Four Walls Eight Windows 9x6 pb [11/2000] for $11.90 |
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"Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory In American Literature" [2000] by John Parris Springer Univ OK Press 9x6 pb [2/2000] out of print/used Univ OK Press hardcover [2/2000] out of print/used |
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"The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association: A Novel" [1999] by Loren D. Estleman The Russian heir to a California ice-cutting fortune becomes a writer of motion pictures in Hollywood, circa 1913 to 1930. Forge mass pb [7/2000] out of print/many, many used Forge 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/99] out of print/many used |
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"Popcorn: A Novel" [1997] by Ben Elton
Exploitation director Bruce Delametri wins an Oscar® and returns home to be captured by two crazed fans who have memorized all the murder & mayhem of his films. Cops and media surround the house as the fiends begin to act out gruesome scenes on Bruce's friends & family. St. Martin's Griffin 9¼x6¼ pb [10/98] out of print/used Thomas Dunne Books 9½x6½ hardcover [11/97] out of print/used |
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"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 |
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"Pacific Coast Highway" [1994] by Stephen Smoke The supposed hit-and-run death of a neighbor pulls ex-L.A.P.D. detective Derek Cheney into an investigation that leads to a serial killer attacking young actresses. HarperCollins mass pb [4/94] out of print/many used Headline Book Publng hardcover [4/94] out of print/scarce |
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"L. A. Times" [1993] by Stuart Woods
A cinema-loving soldier for the mob in New York City reinvents himself as a Hollywood movie producer. HarperTorch mass pb [1/94] for $7.99 HarperCollins 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/93] out of print/used |
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"Sweet La-La Land" [1990] by Robert Campbell
Modern detective Whistler searches the dank underbelly of the streets of Hollywood, looking for a missing child and finding a serial killer. The characters are both romantic and cynical, the narration is often truly poetic, and the description of exploitation B-movie production and personnel is spot-on. Pocket mass pb [2/91] out of print/many used Disc-Us Books 8x6 pb [4/99] out of print/used Poseidon Press hardcover [3/90] out of print/many used |
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"Hollywood: A Novel of America In The 1920s" [1990] by Gore Vidal Ballantine pb [2/91] out of print/used Vintage 8x5¼ pb [8/2000] for $10.50 Modern Library 7¾x5 hardcover [2/99] out of print/used |
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"Her Only Sin: A Novel of Hollywood" [1986] by Benjamin Stein A Hollywood roman á clef, chronicling the rise of studio exec Susan-Marie, whose producer skills bring box-office success while the lousy choices in her personal life lead to tragedy. St Martin mass pb [2/87] out of stock/many used St Martin hardcover [1/86] out of stock/many used |
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"Money: A Suicide Note" [1984] by Martin Amis A savage comedy, the tale of a successful director of TV advertisements in London who is hired by a New York movie producer to make a feature film in Hollywood starring people who loathe each other; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005). Penguin 7¾x5 pb [4/86] for $10.46 |
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"Bijou Dream" [1982] by Jack Warner, Jr.
Robbins International Studios is the setting for 'bombastic' studio chief Hamilton J. Robbins, his brother Maurie, and Ham's second wife Nita. Random House hardcover [12/88] out of print/many used Crown hardcover [1/82] out of print/used renamed re-issue "The Dream Factory" [1988] PaperJacks pb [2/88] out of print/used |
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"Free Fall In Crimson" [1981] by John D. MacDonald
Freelance 'salvage consultant' Travis McGee asks movie star Lysa Dean {see "Quick Red Fox" [1964] below} for help investigating a biker movie director's connections to drugs, porn and murder. Fawcett/Gold Medal mass pb [4/96] for $7.99 |
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"The Dream Lover" [1978] by Lawrence Sanders Intrigue and passion and betrayal in 1927 Hollywood... Berkley 6¾x4¼ pb [7/2001] for $7.50 John Curley UNABR audio [5/99] for $54.95 |
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"The Quick Red Fox" [1964] by John D. MacDonald
Freelance 'salvage consultant' Travis McGee comes to Hollywood, where he saves movie star Lysa Dean from a blackmailer – with side trips to Big Sur, New York & Las Vegas giving the author opportunity to expound on the excesses of the vulgar rich. Fawcett/Gold Medal mass pb [8/95] for $7.99 |
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"The Oscar: A Novel" [1963] by Richard Sale
From the back cover: "Five famous actors are nominated for the award, and they stop at nothing to win it." Pocket mass pb [8/72] out of print/used S&S hardcover [11/63] out of print/used feature film [Embassy March 1966] Co-written & directed by Russell Rouse; starring Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten, Jill St. John, Tony Bennett, Edie Adams, Ernest Borgnine, Ed Begley, Walter Brennan, Broderick Crawford, Peter Lawford & Jack Soo; with cameos by Edith Head, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Merle Oberon, Frank Sinatra & Nancy Sinatra Sony color VHS [2/93] out of prodn/used |
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"The Big Laugh" [1962] by John O'Hara Not O'Hara's best, but still O'Hara. Blindly-ambitious actor Hubie Ward lies, cheats, and seduces his way to the big-time in Hollywood. Ecco 8¾x5½ pb [10/97] for $16.00 |
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"The Deer Park" [Putnam 1955] by Norman Mailer Based on Mailer's experiences working as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the early 1950s, set in a desert town much like Palm Springs. Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/97] for $11.20 |
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"What Makes Sammy Run?" [1941 classic] by Budd Schulberg {see bio above} Vintage 8x5¼ pb [12/93] for $11.20 Random House 8x5½ hardcover [5/2002] for $15.40 listing for planned Red House/DreamWorks production: removed from IMDb database {4/2006} |
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"The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western" [1941 classic] by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]; edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli The classic unfinished novel about Hollywood. The version edited in 1993 by Fitzgerald scholar Bruccoli restores the author's original intent. Scribner 8x5¼ pb [4/95] for $8.80 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [12/93] out of print/used |
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movie "The Last Tycoon" [Paramount 1976] Directed by Elia Kazan; script by Harold Pinter; starring Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence & Ray Milland Paramount wudescreen color DVD [11/2003] for $9.98 Paramount color VHS [4/95] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" movie poster available at AllPosters.com |
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"The Day of The Locust" [Jan 1939 classic] by Nathanael West listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005) NAL pb [9/83] for $5.95 Amereon hardcover [12/97] for $19.95 DH Audio ABR [9/87] 2 tapes out of print/used |
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movie "The Day of The Locust" [Paramount May 1975] Directed by John Schlesinger; starring Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard A. Dysart, Bo Hopkins, Pepe Serna, Lelia Goldoni & Billy Barty Paramount widescreen color DVD [6/2004] for $14.23 Paramount color VHS [6/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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