Hollywood: the Golden Era

Hollywood: the Golden Era
Title Hollywood: the Golden Era PDF eBook
Author Jack Spears
Publisher
Pages 456
Release 1971
Genre History
ISBN

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This book is a revised and updated collection of articles which appeared in their original form in "Films in Review," official publication of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc., between 1955 and 1968.

The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950

The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950
Title The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950 PDF eBook
Author Allen Forte
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 384
Release 1995
Genre Music
ISBN 9780691043999

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In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.

Farewell to the Last Golden Era

Farewell to the Last Golden Era
Title Farewell to the Last Golden Era PDF eBook
Author Bill Morales
Publisher McFarland
Pages 234
Release 2011-08-10
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 078648568X

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In 1960, Major League Baseball reached a crossroads in its history. Facing a challenge from the Continental Baseball League, the owners of the original 16 major league teams elected to admit new clubs. This in-depth look at that pivotal season--the last played with only the original 16 teams--follows the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates on their march to the 1960 World Series. The trials and triumphs of these two teams reflect the changes, large and small, that came to define the sport in the following decades--surnames on the backs of the uniforms, exploding scoreboards, the increasing impact of international players, and foremost of all, expansion. Marking the end of the "Golden Age" of baseball and the beginning of the ascendancy of professional football as the national pastime, this historic season witnessed the intersection of the past and future of American professional sports.

Errol & Olivia

Errol & Olivia
Title Errol & Olivia PDF eBook
Author Robert Matzen
Publisher Paladin Communications
Pages 585
Release 2017-03-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0998376361

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IPPY Award Bronze Medalist for Performing Arts Digging deep into the vaults of Warner Brothers and the collections of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as other private archives, this book explores the complex personal and professional relationship of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Flynn, even 50 years after his death, continues to conjure up images to the prototypical handsome, charismatic ladies' man; while de Havilland, a two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner, is the last surviving star of Gone with the Wind. Richly illustrated with both color and black-and-white photos, most previously unpublished, this detailed history tells the sexy story of these two massive stars, both together and apart.

British Moto-Cross

British Moto-Cross
Title British Moto-Cross PDF eBook
Author Paul Stephens
Publisher Osprey Publishing
Pages 0
Release 1998
Genre Motocross
ISBN 9781855327054

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The author follows the rise of moto cross as a national and international sport, encapsulating the second great period of motorcycle production in Britain, with a full analysis of the men and machines and a complete record of results in both 500cc and 250cc at national, European, and world championship level.

The Golden Era

The Golden Era
Title The Golden Era PDF eBook
Author Rod Laver
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Pages 666
Release 2019-11-05
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1760872709

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From the 1950s to the 1970s, Australia was the world's tennis superpower, producing players who dominated amateur grand slam tournaments, the Davis Cup and the professional circuit, and none was more successful, famous or influential than Rod Laver, whose two singles Grand Slams - winning the Australian, French, Wimbledon and United States championships in a calendar year - have never been equalled. The Golden Era is Rod's deeply personal account of those great years. As a participant and eye-witness, he captures the excitement and drama of the great wins, and gives us genuine insight into the band of supremely talented Australian champions who balanced playing hard with a legendary sportsmanship. Written with all of Rod's peerless tennis knowledge, and including key interviews with Frank Sedgman, Ken Rosewall, the late Lew Hoad, Neale Fraser, Mal Anderson, Ashley Cooper, Roy Emerson, Fred Stolle, John Newcombe and Margaret Court, The Golden Era is the definitive story of the two decades of Australian tennis domination that will almost certainly never be repeated.

California Tile

California Tile
Title California Tile PDF eBook
Author California Heritage Museum
Publisher Schiffer Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2004
Genre Art
ISBN 9780764319433

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During the first half of the 20th century, California tile makers produced richly patterned tiles for building facades, interiors, garden ornamentation, furniture, and serving pieces. Arranged alphabetically, over 850 color images this volume capture the beauty of hundreds of tiles from Hispano-Moresque, Kraftile, Helen Greenleaf Lane, L.A. Pressed Brick, Malibu, Markoff, Muresque, Pacific, Pomona, Poxon, Rhead, S & S, Taylor, Tropico, Tudor, Walrich, West Coast, Woolenius, and tile furnishings and crafts from Cellini-Craft, Hillside Pottery, and Monterey Furniture, with a companion volume covering companies from Acme to Handcraft. Both volumes are enriched by rarely seen archival photographs including historical site installations. A useful guide gives to tile terminology and techniques.