Download or read book Actor the Life and Times of Paul Muni written by Jerome Lawrence and published by Penguin Adult HC/TR. This book was released on 1974 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Actor the Life and Times of Paul Muni written by Jerome Lawrence and published by London : W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1975 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four by Fratti written by Mario Fratti and published by Samuel French , Incorporated. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paul Muni His Life and His Films written by Michael B. Druxman and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..".Michael Druxman has done an exemplary job with this 'Films of '- formatted chronicle of the life of Paul Muni. Above and beyond the usual compendium of production credits, Druxman has spoken to many people associated with Muni in order to produce a rounded, intelligent picture of the man and the actor....Grade-A in all departments." - Film Fan Monthly, November 1974 ..".The volume...has special reference value, particularly since Muni will go down in theatrical history as one of the great perfectionists who graced the screen and stage.... Biographer Druxman is concise and informative in his narration of the Muni story. - Don Carle Gille- e, Variety, June 14, 1974 ..".The author carefully analyzes them [Muni's films] to develop an understanding of the man and his method. This close look at Muni's professional life, coupled with a study of his personal life and habits results in a complete picture of a master.... Interesting an informative reading." - Classic Film Collector, 1974"
Download or read book Laird Cregar written by Gregory William Mank and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6' 3" and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer of psychopaths and villains. Determined to break free of this typecasting, he desperately desired to become "a beautiful man," embarking on an extreme diet that killed him at 31. This first biography of Cregar tells the heartbreaking story of the brilliant but doomed actor. Appendices cover his film, theatre, and radio work. Many never before published photographs are included.
Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.
Download or read book The Contender written by William J. Mann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Weekly's BIG FALL BOOKS PREVIEW Selection Best Book of 2019 -- Publisher's Weekly Based on new and revelatory material from Brando’s own private archives, an award-winning film biographer presents a deeply-textured, ambitious, and definitive portrait of the greatest movie actor of the twentieth century, the elusive Marlon Brando, bringing his extraordinarily complex life into view as never before. The most influential movie actor of his era, Marlon Brando changed the way other actors perceived their craft. His approach was natural, honest, and deeply personal, resulting in performances—most notably in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront—that are without parallel. Brando was heralded as the American Hamlet—the Yank who surpassed British stage royalty Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Ralph Richardson as the standard of greatness in the mid-twentieth century. Brando’s impact on American culture matches his professional significance; he both challenged and codified our ideas of masculinity and sexuality. Brando was also one of the first stars to use his fame as a platform to address social, political, and moral issues, courageously calling out America’s deeply rooted racism. William Mann’s brilliant biography of the Hollywood legend illuminates this culture icon for a new age. Mann astutely argues that Brando was not only a great actor but also a cultural soothsayer, a Cassandra warning us about the challenges to come. Brando’s admonitions against the monetization of nearly every aspect of the culture were prescient. His public protests against racial segregation and discrimination at the height of the Civil Rights movement—getting himself arrested at least once—were criticized as being needlessly provocative. Yet those actions of fifty years ago have become a model many actors follow today. Psychologically astute and masterfully researched, based on new and revelatory material, The Contender explores the star and the man in full, including the childhood traumas that reverberated through his professional and personal life. It is a dazzling biography of our nation’s greatest actor that is sure to become an instant classic. The Contender includes sixteen pages of photographs.
Download or read book The Actor s Guide to Creating a Character written by William Esper and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper’s first book, The Actor’s Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actor’s Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper’s second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper’s training builds on Sanford Meisner’s legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.
Download or read book Cary Grant written by Marc Eliot and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” —Cary Grant He is Hollywood’s most fascinating and timeless star. Although he came to personify the debonair American, Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach on January 18, 1904, in the seaport village of Bristol, England. Combining the captivating beauty of silent-screen legend Rudolph Valentino with the masculine irresistibility of Clark Gable, Grant emerged as Hollywood’s quintessential leading man. Today, “the man from dream city,” as critic Pauline Kael once described him, remains forever young, an icon of quick wit, romantic charm, and urbane sophistication, the epitome of male physical perfection. Yet beneath this idealized movie image was a conflicted man struggling to balance fame with a desire for an intensely private life separate from the “Cary Grant” persona celebrated by directors and movie studios. Exploring Grant’s troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed him to remain Hollywood’s favorite romantic lead for more than thirty-five years, Cary Grant is the definitive examination of every aspect of Grant’s professional and private life, and the first to reveal the man behind the movie star. Working with the most talented directors of his time, Grant starred in an astonishing seventy-two films, ranging from his groundbreaking comedic roles in such classics as Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks) and The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor) to the darker, unforgettable characters of Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion and Notorious, culminating in the consummate sophisticates of An Affair to Remember (Leo McCarey), North by Northwest (Hitchcock), and Charade (Stanley Donen). The camera loved Grant, and his magnetism helped illuminate his leading ladies, some of the most glamorous women ever to grace the silver screen: Mae West, Irene Dunne, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, and Sophia Loren, among others. Yet, because of his pioneering role as an independent player, Grant was repeatedly denied the Oscar he coveted—a snub from the Academy that would last until 1970, when he graciously accepted a special lifetime achievement award. Grant’s sparkling image on-screen hid a tumultuous personal life that he tried desperately to keep out of the public eye, including his controversial eleven-year relationship with Randolph Scott, five marriages, and numerous affairs. Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Cary Grant: A Biography is a complete, nuanced portrait of the greatest Hollywood star in cinema history.
Download or read book Puckoon written by Spike Milligan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puckoon is Spike Milligan's classic slapstick novel, reissued for the first time since it was published in 1963. 'Pops with the erratic brilliance of a careless match in a box of fireworks' Daily Mail In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . . 'Bursts at the seams with superb comic characters involved in unbelievably likely troubles on the Irish border' Observer 'Our first comic philosopher' Eddie Izzard Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century. Born in India in 1918, he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy. At the end of the war, he forged a career as a jazz musician, sketch-show writer and performer, before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show. Until his death in 2002, he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction, memoir, poetry, plays, cartoons and children's stories.
Download or read book Letters to a Young Lawyer written by Arthur Merton Harris and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stardust Lost written by Stefan Kanfer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life. Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to establish and run the thriving, influential theaters. He reveals the nightly drama and comedy that played out behind the scenes as well as onstage, and introduces all the players—actors, divas, playwrights, directors, and producers—who made it possible. A richly evocative chronicle of its brief but dazzling existence in America, this is both an elegy for and a tribute to Yiddish theater—lost, but not forgotten.
Download or read book Paul Muni written by Michael B Druxman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Muni was the most respected actor of his day.Few people can forget a Muni performance: SCARFACE, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, BORDERTOWN, BLACK FURTY, THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR, for which he won an Oscar, THE GOOD EARTH, THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA, JUAREZ and THE LAST ANGEY MAN are all cinema classics that remain vivid in the memories of most viewers.A product of the Yiddish Theatre, Muni was a very private man. Directors often found him difficult, as he insisted on developing his own characterizations without their help.Michael B. Druxman's one-person stage play, PAUL MUNI, joins the actor after he has had a major Broadway success (INHERIT THE WIND), as he decides whether he wants to do another film for Columbia Pictures' head, Harry Cohn, an executive who he has never gotten along with.1 actor; one simple set
Download or read book When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood 1923 1939 written by Martin Shingler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a different take on the early history of Warner Bros., the studio renowned for introducing talking pictures and developing the gangster film and backstage musical comedy. The focus here is on the studio’s sustained commitment to produce films based on stage plays. This led to the creation of a stock company of talented actors, to the introduction of sound cinema, to the recruitment of leading Broadway stars such as John Barrymore and George Arliss and to films as diverse as The Gold Diggers (1923), The Marriage Circle (1924), Beau Brummel (1924), Disraeli (1929), Lilly Turner (1933), The Petrified Forest (1936) and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). Even the most crippling effects of the Depression in 1933 did not prevent Warners’ production of films based on stage plays, many being transformed into star vehicles for the likes of Ruth Chatterton, Leslie Howard and Bette Davis.
Download or read book Paul Muni 164 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about Paul Muni written by Margaret Stuart and published by Emerge Publishing Group Llc. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's new: Paul Muni! This book is your ultimate resource for Paul Muni. Here you will find the most up-to-date 164 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paul Muni's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Paul Muni - Acting techniques, The Good Earth (film) - Plot, The Valiant (1929 film), Juarez (film) - Cast, Harry Warner - The Great Depression, 2000 Years of Human Error - Personnel, Imbarco a mezzanotte - Plot, The Woman I Love - Cast, Counter-Attack - Plot, Dracula (1931 film) - Background/Production, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang - Awards and nominations, 1933 in film - Notable films released in 1933, Scarface (1932 film) - Plot, Gamine - Lexicography, Rowan and Martin's Laugh In - Catchphrases, Juarez (1939 film) - Cast, Paul Muni - Early life and career, 1942 in film - Notable films released in 1942, Juarez (film) - Production, June 8 - Events, George Raft - Gangster icon, Angel on My Shoulder (film) - Plot, The Last Angry Man, Bordertown (1935 film) - Production, 1932 in film - Notable films released in 1932, Paul Muni - Hollywood, The World Changes, 1939 in film - Notable films released in 1939, Albert Warner - The Great Depression, Ann Dvorak - Life and career, Black Fury (1935 film), William Dieterle - Hollywood career: 1940s, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse - Production, Hudson's Bay (film) - Cast, Ben Hecht - Notable screenplays, Maria Elena, M. C. Levee - Career, Warner Bros. - Code era, Saints and Sinners (1962 TV series) - Guest stars, George Macready - Acting career, The Story of Louis Pasteur - Cast, and much more...
Download or read book Leading Men written by Frank Miller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tough, sophisticated, witty, and handsomefrom Rudolph Valentino to Buster Keaton, Cary Grant to Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart to Steve McQueen, each of the actors featured in this book brought a magnetic presence to the screen and made a powerful and enduring mark on film history. Produced by Turner Classic Movies, this stylish and definitive guide as the inside scoop and off-the-record reveals of fifty unforgettable actors and is also the focus of an on-air film festival on the channel. The lives and accomplishments of each actor are celebrated in an insightful career overview, accompanied by an annotated list of essential films, filmographies, behind the scenes facts, Academy Award wins and nominations. Full of surprising trivia, film stills, posters, and stunning photos, Leading Men pays tribute to the most charismatic, enduring, and elegant actors of the silver screenan essential resource for movie buffs and pop-culture enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book Lee Marvin written by Dwayne Epstein and published by IPG. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles—such as his chilling titular villain in The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One—very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.
