King Kong

King Kong
Title King Kong PDF eBook
Author Ray Morton
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Pages 368
Release 2005
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 9781557836694

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Chronicling the making of all seven feature films in which King Kong has appeared - including the Peter Jackson film due for release in December 2005 - this book includes coverage of all the original films as well as the many variants and offshoots.

Hollywood's Lost Backlot

Hollywood's Lost Backlot
Title Hollywood's Lost Backlot PDF eBook
Author Steven Bingen
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 265
Release 2018-12-01
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 149303362X

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Hollywood is a transitory place. Stars and studios rise and fall. Genres and careers wax and wane. Movies and movie moguls and movie makers and movie palaces are acclaimed and patronized and loved and beloved, and then forgotten. And yet… And yet one place in Southern California, built in the 1920s by (allegedly murdered) producer Thomas Ince, acquired by Cecil B. DeMille, now occupied by Amazon.com, has been the home for hundreds of the most iconic and legendary films and television shows in the world for a remarkable and star-studded fifty years. This bizarre, magical place was the location for Tara in Gone with The Wind, the home of King Kong and Superman, of Tarzan and Batman, of the Green Hornet, of Elliot Ness, of Barney Fife, of Tarzan, of Rebecca, of Citizen Kane, of Hogan’s Heroes and Gomer Pyle, of Lasse, of A Star is Born and Star Trek, and at least twice, of Jesus Christ. For decades, every conceivable star in Hollywood, from Clark Gable to Warren Beatty, worked and loved and gave indelible performances on the site. And yet, today, it is completely forgotten. Pretty much anyone alive today, from college professors to longshoremen, have probably heard of Paramount and of MGM, of Warner Bros. and of Universal, and of Disney and Fox and Columbia, but the place where many of these studio’s beloved classics were minted is today as mysterious and unknowable as the sphinx. Hollywood’s Lost Backlot: 40 Acres of Glamour and Mystery will, for the first time ever, unwind the colorful and convoluted threads that make for the tale of one of the most influential and photographed places in the world. A place which most have visited, at least on screen, and which has contributed significantly and unexpectedly to the world’s popular culture, and yet which few people today, paradoxically, have ever heard of.

The Cruel Plains

The Cruel Plains
Title The Cruel Plains PDF eBook
Author Michael H. Price
Publisher Rogers Publishing & Consulting, Inc
Pages 164
Release 2007-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780979669811

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Price and Turner explore the legends and lore of the Southwestern Great Plains. "The Cruel Plains" seeks to both inform and entertain while delving into and uncovering the mysteries that make western folklore so engaging.

John Wayne: The Life and Legend

John Wayne: The Life and Legend
Title John Wayne: The Life and Legend PDF eBook
Author Scott Eyman
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 672
Release 2015-04-21
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1439199590

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The celebrated Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait by noted film historian and master biographer Scott Eyman. Exploring Wayne's early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father, "Eyman gets at the details that the bean-counters and myth-spinners miss ... Wayne's intimates have told things here that they've never told anyone else" (Los Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne's later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages to Latina women, and his notorious--and surprisingly long-lived--passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich.

Milton on Film

Milton on Film
Title Milton on Film PDF eBook
Author Eric C. Brown
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 433
Release 2015-04-06
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 027109351X

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In January 2012, shooting was set to begin in Sydney, Australia, on the Hollywood-backed production of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper cast as Satan. Yet just two weeks before the start of production, Legendary Pictures delayed the project, reportedly due to budgetary concerns, and soon the company had suspended the film indefinitely. Milton scholar Eric C. Brown, who was then serving as a script consultant for the studio, sees his experience with that project as part of a long and perplexing story of Milton on film. Indeed, as Brown details in this comprehensive study, Milton’s place in the popular imagination—and his extensive influence upon the cinema, in particular—has been both pervasive and persistent.

Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror

Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror
Title Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror PDF eBook
Author Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
Publisher McFarland
Pages 231
Release 2014-01-10
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0786461896

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Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synopses, reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage and television appearances, along with a critical listing of her novels and other published works. An analysis of Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy--of which Pitt's celebrated The Vampire Lovers (1970) was the first installment--is included, and also examined is the trilogy's original literary source, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Other features are rare photographs and other movie-related graphics from every phase of the actress' career and a foreword by Ingrid Pitt herself.

Focus On: 100 Most Popular United States National Film Registry Films

Focus On: 100 Most Popular United States National Film Registry Films
Title Focus On: 100 Most Popular United States National Film Registry Films PDF eBook
Author Wikipedia contributors
Publisher e-artnow sro
Pages 1724
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