Mabel
Title | Mabel PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Harper Fussell |
Publisher | Amadeus Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Hollywood |
ISBN |
SLAPSTICK DIVAS
Title | SLAPSTICK DIVAS PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Massa |
Publisher | BearManor Media |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2017-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781629331331 |
Illustrated with 440 rare movie scene shots, formal portraits, candid behind the scenes photos, film frame enlargements, trade magazine advertisements, lobby cards, stage photographs, artist's renderings and caricatures, and casting guide entries.
Mabel Normand
Title | Mabel Normand PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Dean Lefler |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2023-11-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 147665039X |
American silent film actress Mabel Normand (1892-1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposite stars like Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle before dying of tuberculosis at 37. Her brief but remarkable career--which included directorial and writing credits and heading her own studio and production company--was eclipsed by scandal when police connected her to the unsolved 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor.Tracing her life from humble beginnings on Staten Island to the heights of world superstardom, this book highlights Normand's substantial yet largely overlooked contributions to film history and popular culture.
Mabel and Me
Title | Mabel and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Boorstin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | 9781626400160 |
It's 1912 in Hollywood, the birth of the Movies, and Mabel Normand, beautiful and funny, the model of the modern comedy star, was shocking the world. This intimate novel takes us inside the earliest days of the motion pictures, together with the Queen of Comedy. As sharply observed as it is historically accurate, this is the tale of a young man's coming of age with the Movies, and his passionate yet destructive love for the queen of slapstick- Mabel Normand. Their story is the birth of our media age.
Mabel Normand
Title | Mabel Normand PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Dean Lefler |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-04-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780786478675 |
American silent film star Mabel Normand (1892-1930) appeared in a string of popular movies opposite the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle during the 1910s and 1920s, before dying of tuberculosis at age 37. Her brief but remarkable career, which included director and writer credits as well as heading her own studio and production company, was marred by scandal--police connected her to the unsolved 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor--that defined her legacy. This book highlights Normand's substantial yet long overlooked contributions to film history and popular culture, tracing her life from humble beginnings on Staten Island to the heights of world superstardom.
Funny Ladies
Title | Funny Ladies PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen M. Silverman |
Publisher | New Word City |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2018-12-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1640193529 |
Jam-packed with jokes, funny stories, and stand-up routines, this guide to America's funniest women covers more than seventy-five famous comediennes, including Carol Burnett, Ellen DeGeneres, Whoopi Goldberg, Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, Mary Tyler Moore, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, and others.
Letters at 3am
Title | Letters at 3am PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ventura |
Publisher | Spring Publications |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
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