Author: A. Scott Berg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471130061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1073
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Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era - a fierce independent force i a time when studios ruled, a producer of silver screen sagas who was, in all probability, the last Hollywood tycoon. In this riveting book, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer A. Scott Berg tells the life story of this remarkable man - a tale as rich with drama as any feature length epic and as compelling as the history of Hollywood itself.
Author: Carol Easton
Publisher: Hollywood Legends
ISBN: 9781617039997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Sam Goldwyn's career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films and worked with many luminaries. When Samuel Goldfisch was born in the Warsaw ghetto, he was penniless; when Sam Goldwyn died in Los Angeles, he was worth an estimated $19 million
Author: Lawrence Jeffrey Epstein
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: J. A. Aberdeen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781890110246
Category : Independent filmmakers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Walt Disney, David O. Selznick, Mary Pickford, Orson Welles, and an elite group of movie producers secretly formed their own society in an effort to break up the old studio monopolies. The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers initiated profound changes in Hollywood but today has been forgotten Using original SlMPP documents, this book reveals the story that has waited over 40 years to be told.
Author: Carol Easton
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626741328
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Sam Goldwyn’s career spanned almost the entire history of Hollywood. He made his first film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, and he died in 1974 at the age of ninety-one. In the many years between, he produced an enormous number of films—including such classics as Wuthering Heights, Street Scene, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, The Little Foxes, and The Best Years of Our Lives—and worked with many luminaries—Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, George Balanchine, Lillian Hellman, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Eddie Cantor, Busby Berkeley, Danny Kaye, Merle Oberon, and Bob Hope among them. When Samuel Goldfisch was born in the Warsaw ghetto, he was penniless; when Sam Goldwyn died in Los Angeles, he was worth an estimated $19 million. The Search for Sam Goldwyn locates the real Sam Goldwyn and shatters the “hostile conspiracy of silence” that protected his legend. In writing Goldwyn's story, Carol Easton has given us a fine examination of “the civilization known as Hollywood” and how Goldwyn himself shaped that culture.
Author: Alvin H. Marill
Publisher: South Brunswick [N.J.] : A. S. Barnes
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Commentary and analysis of the films of independent producer Samuel Goldwyn.
Author: Farley Granger
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312357740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Synonymous with the golden age of Broadway, the dazzling lights of Hollywood, and the rise of television arts, Farley Granger's charm and talent captivated the acting community and audiences alike. Working with creative visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, and Nick Ray, Granger was a celebrated figure in films like Strangers on a Train, Rope, Senso, and They Live by Night, bringing to the big screen a stunningly memorable presence. But behind his characters, he was an intensely complex man. In his richly told memoir, Granger details his life with disarming candor. Rich in personal insight, he describes his relationships with both men and women and reminisces about screen legends he knew with private familiarity—from Shelley Winters to Joan Crawford to Leonard Bernstein. Recreating not only his personal struggles but his legendary struggle to free himself of his contract with Sam Goldwyn, Granger reveals none so elegantly as he does himself. Include Me Out is as much a story of classic Hollywood glamour as it is a collection of iconic theatrical portraits, all from the man who knew them all.
Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192804723
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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No writer has served as such a powerful source of inspiration for other writers as Shakespeare. No writer has attracted such widespread and varied comment. This unique anthology draws on the vast literature that plays little part in formal Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, but that shows with immediacy and passion the enormous impact Shakespeare has had on our cultural life. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are all represented. So are philosophers, historians, composers, film-makers, politicians. Shakespearean characters and motifs are shown fuelling the genius of Goethe and Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Emily Dickinson, John Updike and Duke Ellington, Nabokov and Proust. Shakespeare the man fires the imagination of Kipling and Joyce, Borges and Anthony Burgess. Herman Melville writes a poem about Falstaff. D. H. Lawrence anatomizes Hamlet. R. K. Narayan describes a Shakespeare lesson in an Indian classroom. John Osborne adapts Coriolanus. Ionescu reworks Macbeth.The choice of critical responses is equally wide-ranging. Jean-Paul Sartre proves an unexpectedly expert commentator on King Lear. Alfred Dreyfus and Nelson Mandela console themselves with Shakespeare during their imprisonment. And curiosities abound - parodies, burlesques, strange echoes and eccentricities. Throughout the book we can see Shakespeare changing lives, opening up fresh horizons and reaching out to 'the great globe itself'.
Author: Valeria Belletti
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520247809
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A real-life, behind-the-scenes glimpse of Hollywood in the 1920s is revealed in letters by Sam Goldwyn's secretary.
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354756696
Category : Documentary-style films
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A son dissects his parents' marriage - they were film icons in 1960s Myanmar. It turns out the heartrending scenes they acted out on the silver screen are a pretty accurate reflection of their real lives. While the camera slides across the glamour photos from their heyday, the filmmaker looks on, entranced. He grapples with the incredible fame of his parents. Now that he is reconstructing their relationship, he sees the old film footage through different eyes - as if it might contain the answers he didn't get as a child, when his parents separated. ..This merging of family history and film excerpts creates a magical mix of fact and fiction, or - as the son calls it - "the real and the celluloid wedding." The son's public revelation of how things went wrong is an emancipatory act, as divorce is still a big taboo in Myanmar. But the filmmaker doesn't publically jump onto the barricades. Rather, he keeps things personal, showing the pain caused by the divorce, both for him as a child and for his parents. He also shows how, 50 years ago, ambitions in Myanmar in the area of film were in line with Hollywood: the first film his parents appeared in together was called Sweet Sixteen. ..Best Documentary Award at Wathann Film Fest2, Yangon, Myanmar, ..Best ASEAN Documentary Award at Salaya International Documentary Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand.
