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Books
 | "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 |
 | "Movie Speak: How To Talk Like You Belong On A Movie Set" [2009] by Tony Bill Workman Publng 6¼x4½ pb [1/2009] for $8.95 |
 | "What I Really Want To Do On Set In Hollywood: A Guide To Real Jobs In The Film Industry" [2008] by Brian Dzyak Lone Eagle 8¾x6 pb [5/2008] for $13.57 |
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"Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover" [2008] by Denise Mann Univ MN Press 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2008] for $25.00 Univ MN Press 9x6 hardcover [2/2008] for $75.00 |
 | "Gaffers, Grips and Best Boys: From Producer-Director To Gaffer & Computer Special Effects Creator, A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Who Does What In The Making of A Motion Picture" [1987; rev 1995] by Eric Taub St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [1/95] for $13.22 St. Martin's Press {mixed formats} [1987] out of print/used |
People, A to Z
"You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors
gone; the great title writers who were washed up. But remember this, as long as you live:
the producers didn't lose a man. They all made the switch. That's where the great talent is."
— writer-director Ernst Lubitsch [1892-1947]
sound man Edward Bernds
"Mr. Bernds Goes To Hollywood: My Early Life and Career In Sound
Recording At Columbia With Frank Capra & Others" []
/9780810836020/
![co-won Oscar for Best Picture for "The Sting" [1973]](images/oscar_sm.gif) | producer-director-actor Tony Bill
browse Tony Bill on DVD: as actor & as director IMDb listing [since 1963] Wikipedia |
photographer Clarence Sinclair Bull [1876-1979]
worked 40 years at M.G.M. as head of the Still Photography Dept.
 | "The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Hollywood Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull" [1989] by Terence Pepper & John Kobal Nearly 200 portraits of filmstars such as Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Katherine Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Vivian Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor & Spencer Tracy, and 20 years (1921-41) of exclusive studio portraits of Greta Garbo Schirmer/Mosel Verlag pb [4/96] out of print/used S&S hardcover [11/89] out of print/many used |
producer John Calley
| | stuntman Yakima Canutt [1896-1986] no browse/Amazon entry IMDb listing Wikipedia |
second A.D. Pamela Cederquist
stunt-double Martha Crawford {Cantanini}
IMDb listing [1947-58]
official homepage
 | "Fall Girl: My Life As A Western Stunt Double" [2010]  by Martha Crawford Cantarini & Chrystopher J. Spicer After being one of the top show riders in America, Martha Crawford became a female stunt rider in the movie industry of the 1950s; during the following decade, she had her own television show in Las Vegas, Nevada with a trained stunt horse, Frosty; she now lives in British Columbia, Canada McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [5/2010] for $31.50 |
The deMille Clan
playwright & movie director William C. deMille [1878-1955]
movie director Cecil B. DeMille [1881-1959]
browse DVDs official website
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
"Autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille" [Prentice Hall 1959]
"Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood" [Univ Press of KY 2004] by Robert S. Birchard ISBN 978-0-8131-2324-0
"Written In Stone: Making Cecil B. DeMille's Epic The Ten Commandments"
[Vestal Press 1990] by Katherine Orrison ISBN 1-879511-24-X
dancer Agnes de Mille [1905-93]
"No Intermission: The Life of Agnes de Mille" [] by Carol Easton
actress Peggy George [1908-78]
author Richard De Mille [1922-2009]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Mille
"Castaneda's Journey: The Power and the Allegory" [1976]
"The Don Juan Papers: Further Castaneda Controversies" [1980]
"My Secret Mother: Lorna Moon" [1998]
novelist Nelson DeMille is not related
SFX wizard Linwood G. Dunn [1904-98]
lawyer Jerry Giesler [1886-1962]
"Hollywood Lawyer: The Jerry Giesler Story"
lawyer Milton M. Golden []
 | "Hollywood Lawyer" [1960] by Milton M. Golden "one of the movie capital's most prominent attorneys reveals the sensational stories behind his scorching cases" Signet/N.A.L. mass pb [1962] out of print/used Signet/N.A.L. mass pb [1960] out of print/used |
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| sound engineer George R. Groves [1901-76] sound recording pioneer and Hollywood's first-ever 'sound man' won 2 Best Sound Oscars out of 8 nominations |
no browse/Amazon entry IMDb listing [1926-70] Wikipedia
SRW's George R. Groves fansite
 | special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen [b. 1920] more details (profile, books, DVDs, posters, links) on Magic Lantern's Ray Harryhausen Page |
Ray Harryhausen has been the best friend of Ray Bradbury since the 1930s
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"The Art of Ray Harryhausen" [2006] by Ray Harryhausen & Tony Dalton, Foreword by Peter Jackson Watson-Guptill 11x9½ pb [12/2008] for $19.77 Billboard Books 11½x10 hardcover [4/2006] for $36.50 |
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"Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life" [2004] by Ray Harryhausen & Tony Dalton, Foreward by Ray Bradbury Billboard Books 11½x10 hardcover [4/2004] for $33.00 |
studio head Thomas H. Ince [1882-1924] Page
producer Joseph. P. Kennedy [1888-1969]
IMDb listing [1923-30]
Wikipedia
also father of Joe Kennedy [1915-44], John F. Kennedy [1917-63] & Sen. Ted Kennedy [1932-2009]
http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-P-Kennedy-Presents-Hollywood/dp/0307475220/
"The Eagle's Talons" [15-episode Universal serial 1923]
starring Fred Thomson [1890-1928]
"Tom's Gang" [1927 silent Western] starring Tom Tyler
"Queen Kelly" [1929] directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Gloria Swanson
"The Trespasser" [United Artists 1929] starring Gloria Swanson
"What A Widow!" [United Artists 1930] directed by Allan Dwan, starring Gloria Swanson
producer-agent Paul Kohner [1902-88]
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
incidentally: uncle of real-life surfing icon Gidget
mob fixer Sidney Korshak [1907-96]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Korshak
"Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became
America's Hidden Power Brokers" [Bloomsbury, 2006] by Gus Russo
Hollywood agent 'Swifty' Lazar [1907-93]
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
producer Val Lewton [1904-51]
no browse/Amazon entry IMDb listing
Wikipedia
 | Martin Scorsese Presents "Val Lewton: The Man In The Shadows" [Turner Movie Channel documentary airdate Jan 2008] Producer Val Lewton made films for R.K.O. Pictures that transcended the B-movie genres of the day. Co-produced & narrated by Martin Scorsese; written & directed by Kent Jones Warner Home Video color DVD [2/2008] for $17.99 |
 | "The Val Lewton Horror Collection" DVD box set [2008]
Warner Home Video DVD [1/2008] for $42.99 includes the Kent Jones documentary {above} and "Cat People" [1942] directed by Jacques Tourneur; "The Curse of The Cat People" [1944]; "I Walked With A Zombie" [1943] directed by Jacques Tourneur; "The Seventh Victim" [1943] directed by Mark Robson; and the documentary "Shadows In The Dark" [2005 video release] co-written & directed by Constantine Nasr |
Hollywood agent Ed Limato [1936-2010]
Ashley-Famous Agency in New York City, 1966-88
partner at International Creative Management, 1988-99
senior VP at William Morris Agency, 1999-2010
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
producer & studio mogul Mike Medavoy
| | producer Walter Mirisch [b. 1921] browse DVDs IMDb listing Wikipedia |
producer of the four "Magnificent Seven" films, 1960-72
The Mirisch Company [est. 1957] entry at Wikipedia
 | "I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History" [2008] by Walter Mirisch Univ WI Press9x6½ hardcover [2/2008] for $21.86 |
casting director Wallis 'Wally' Nicita
IMDb listing [1979-99]
no entry at Wikipedia
trial lawyer Louis Nizer [1902-94]
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
| | producer & studio head Sir David Puttnam browse DVDs IMDb listing Wikipedia |
"Fast Fade: David Puttnam, Columbia Pictures, and The Battle For Hollywood"
[Delacorte Press 1989] Andrew Yule ISBN 0-440-50177-6
"Mahler" [1974]
"Bugsy Malone" [1976]
"The Duellists" [1977] directed by Ridley Scott
"Midnight Express" [1978]
"Chariots of Fire" [1981]
"Local Hero" [1983]
"The Killing Fields" [1984] directed by Roland Joffι
"The Mission" [1986]
"Memphis Belle" [1990]
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"Movies and Money: The Undeclared War Between Europe & America" [1998] by David Puttnam
The struggle between Pathι in France and the capitalists in America (including Thomas Edison) ended after World War I with Hollywood dominant; the struggle continues today, across the various media and markets. Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/2000] for $17.00 Knopf 9x6½ hardcover [10/98] out of print/used |
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"We Are The People We've Been Waiting For" [New Moon TV, U.K. 2009]
This landmark 90-minute documentary confronts our expectations of what education systems ought to be achieving for our children, by exploring the extent to which young people around the world are being failed by an education system created at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Exec produced by David Puttnam; directed by Daryl Goodrich; featuring Richard Branson, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Germaine Greer, Sir Ken Robinson & Henry Winkler FREE DVD available at the official website, shipped worldwide !! full credits at IMDb official movie site |
producer Robert E. Relyea []
"Not So Quiet On The Set: My Life In Movies During Hollywood's Macho Era"
[] by Robert E. Relyea, with Craig Relyea
http://www.amazon.com/Not-So-Quiet-Set-Hollywoods/dp/0595713327/
"Bullitt" [1968] starring Steve McQueen
"The Reivers" [1969] starring Steve McQueen
based on the Pulitzer-winning 1962 novel by William Faulkner [1897-1962]
"Le Mans" [1971] starring Steve McQueen
"Blame It On Rio" [1984]
"Last Action Hero" [1993] starring Arnold S.
studio head Hal Roach [1892-1992] Page
Charley Chase [1893-1940] Page
Laurel & Hardy Page
Little Rascals / Our Gang Page
Harold Lloyd [1893-1971] Page
Thelma Todd [1906-35] Page
U.S. Army's First Motion Picture Unit {at Hal Roach Studios in WWII) Page
Hollywood literary agent H.N. Swanson [1899-1994]
producer Christine Vachon
two books
Killer Films of NYC with partner Pamela Koffler
Jack Valenti [1921-2007]
president of the Motion Picture Association of America, 1966-2004
IMDb listing
Wikipedia
producer Walter Wanger [1894-1968]
http://www.amazon.com/Walter-Hollywood-Independent-Matthew-Bernstein/dp/081663548X/
studio head Lew Wasserman [1913-2002]
studio head Adolph Zukor [1873-1976]
"The Public Is Never Wrong: My 50 Years In The Motion Picture Industry" autobiography [1953]
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