Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1940's
Title | Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1940's PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Rowan |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2016-01-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1329811410 |
In Europe the war was already old, but while feeding nickels into roadhouse jukeboxes, the Presidential conventions, where the biggest question would be whether That Man in the White House would shatter yet another precedent and run for a third term. To many Americans, there seemed little else worth worrying about. As with all time periods, the 1940s had a set of specific fads that were popular around the country. Read this book and find out about the films of this decade and more...
Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1950's
Title | Motion Pictures From the Fabulous 1950's PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Rowan |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2015-12-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1329760778 |
The 1950s marked a decade of great fads - Hula-Hoops, Davy Crockett coonskin caps, Roy Rogers or Gene Audrey guns or Cowboy boots, and poodle skirts. It gave us Elvis Presley and rock and roll, crew cuts and sideburns, argyle sweaters, saddle shoes and white bucks. College kids on panty raids and sock hops. In the corner of every sitting room, was a small but ever-expanding eye fixed on an opening world - Television set. Films of the 1950s were wide variety and the stuidios sought to put audiences back in the seats of the theaters.
The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Title | The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | American Film Institute |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 1198 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780520079083 |
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Motion Pictures from the Fabulous 1980's
Title | Motion Pictures from the Fabulous 1980's PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Rowan |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2015-06-27 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1329246500 |
The decade of the 1980s and its movies and events that shape this Comeback decade. The Reagan Years. Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Cher, and Madonna. The Berlin Wall coming down..
Motion Pictures, 1940-1949
Title | Motion Pictures, 1940-1949 PDF eBook |
Author | Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Copyright |
ISBN |
Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide
Title | Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Alleman |
Publisher | Crown |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2013-03-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0804137773 |
The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including: Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard...the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade Runner to David Boreanaz on TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer....the landmark Art Deco former department store that has doubled for a glamorous hotel in Topper (1936) and an elegant nightclub in The Aviator (2004)... the Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street houses... the Seinfeld and Alias apartment buildings... the Six Feet Under funeral home...The Brady Bunch and Happy Days houses...the Charlie's Angels office...the real Melrose Place...and many more VIP tours: from legendary studios like Warner Bros., MGM (now Sony Pictures), and Universal to movie-star homes like Barbra Streisand's former Malibu compound… Crime scenes and scandal spots: the driveway where Sal Mineo was murdered, the Nicole Brown Simpson condo, the Sharon Tate estate, Marilyn Monroe's last address, the Beverly Hills Mansion where Bugsy Siegal was rubbed out…the Hollywood hotel where Janice Joplin O.D.’d… Plus: Remarkable new museums...Superstar cemeteries...Historic hotels...Hip clubs and restaurants....Fabulous restored movie palaces… Spectacular movie star mansions and château apartments… Taking movie lovers behind the gates of the exclusive, often hidden world of Tinsel Town, Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide is the ultimate insider's guide to L.A.'s reel attractions.
This Fabulous Century: 1930-1940
Title | This Fabulous Century: 1930-1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Time-Life Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Popular culture |
ISBN |