Download or read book Spencer Tracy written by James Curtis and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his lifetime, Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won two. But there has been no substantial, intimate biography of the man, until now. From his earliest days in stock theatre, Tracy was a publicist's trial, guarding his private life fiercely. Most of the people associated closely with him shunned the limelight - notably his wife, his children and the great actress Katharine Hepburn, with whom he had an affair that lasted over 26 years. Although his screen roles often depicted a happy, twinkling Irishman, Tracy struggled with alchoholism to the end, a fact which the studios managed to keep out of the papers.With the help of Tracy's daughter, Susie, and access to previously unseen papers, James Curtis has now produced the definitive biography of a tortured, complex and immensely talented man.The book contains 124 integrated photos, many published for the first time.
Download or read book The Films of Spencer Tracy written by Donald Deschner and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Films of Spencer Tracy written by Donald Deschner and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spencer Tracy a Life in Pictures written by New England Vintage Film Inc. Society and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spencer Tracy simply was every character he played on the silver screen. He was known as the actors-actor, a master of his craft. As members of the Tracy Family, we arte grateful to Brenda Loew for putting together this amazing photo book of Spencer Tracy for all the world to enjoy. His memory and legacy live on in this intimate portrait of a man and a life that was fully lived. - Cyndi Tracy & the Spencer Tracy Family The minute you see Spencer Tracy on the screen you are immediately transfi xed on his humanity. Whether he plays a poor man, a wise-cracking sportswriter, the father of the bride, or the defender of a great cause, in the end, Spencer Tracy truly is the heroic Santiago from Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, courageously battling the sharks that would tear apart his dignity and life's work. No other actor had his gift. - Upton Bell, New England radio and television talk show host whose mother, Broadway actress and comedienne Frances Bell, starred with Eddie Cantor in Whoopee! and the Ziegfeld Follies of 1928, in the early talkie Night Work, and in one of the first experimental television broadcasts in New York City with Gertrude Lawrence and Lionel Atwill. She was a great admirer of Tracy when he was on the New York stage. _______________ Spencer Tracy, A Life in Pictures: Rare, Candid and Original Photos of the Hollywood Legend, His Family, and Career presents a unique and compelling portrait of the man, his career, and family, including rare imagesof his marriage to actress Louise Treadwell and their two children: John, who was born deaf, and Susie. More than 300 rare, candid and original images in this edition illustrate how Spencer Tracy's life, family and career touched people in every corner of the world. Combining a unique mixture of original news service photographs, celebrity stills, and rare, candid, and unique snapshots, this dazzling collection of over three hundred images, Spencer Tracy, A Life in Pictures: Rare, Candid and Original Photos of the Hollywood Legend, His Family and Career captures the life and legacy of a Golden Age Hollywood legend, onscreen and off. One of the most versatile and popular movie stars of the twentieth century, Spencer Tracy's life and career spanned sixty-seven tumultuous years of twentieth-century American history, including two world wars, the Great Depression, technological advances, the emergence of the nuclear age, the cold war, and the rise of the women's and civil rights movements. Behind the scenes, two-time Academy Award-winner Spencer Tracy faced personal and professional challenges without parallel or precedent. Books and articles are still being written today in an attempt to explain the mystique surrounding the Spencer Tracy legend. His story is an inspiring legacy.
Download or read book In the Company of Legends written by Joan Kramer and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with their award winning profiles of Fred Astaire in 1980, Joan Kramer and David Heeley documented the lives and careers of many Hollywood legends, establishing a reputation for finding the un-findable, persuading the reluctant, and maintaining unique relationships long after the end credits rolled. These were recognized as high-quality, definitive film portraits, which revitalized the genre and made it a mainstay of television programming. This is their insiders’ view of the famous and the powerful: Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, Lew Wasserman, Ronald Reagan, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Jane Fonda, Richard Dreyfuss, Audrey Hepburn, and Bette Davis, among others. Kramer and Heeley’s behind the scenes stories of the productions and the personalities involved are amusing, sometimes moving, often revealing, and have never been told before.
Download or read book Complete Films of Spencer Tracy written by Donald Deschner and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Movies on Our Minds written by James E. Cutting and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of popular cinema from its inception to the present day to understand why humankind has expanded its viewing of popular movies over the last century. Drawing from his extensive work as a psychologist studying artistic canons, James E. Cutting presents hundreds of films across a wide range of genres and eras, considers the structure of frame content, shots, scenes, and larger narrational elements defined by color, brightness, motion, clutter, and range of other variables. He examines the effects of camera lenses, image layout, transitions, and historical functions to classify different kinds of shots. He explains the arcs of scenes, the larger structure of sequences, and the scene- and sequence-like units that have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. The book then breaks movies into larger, roughly half-hour parts and espouses the psychological evidence behind each device's intended effect, ultimately exploring the rhythms of whole movies, the flow of physical changes, and the cinematic polyrhythms that have come to match aspects those in the human body. Along the way, the book considers cultural and technological evolutions that have contributed to shifts in viewers' engagement by sustaining attention, promoting understanding of the narrative, heightening emotional commitment, and fostering felt presence in the story. Movies on Our Minds asks critical questions about how our emotional processes and the way our experiences of movies have changed over the course of cinematic history, for a cutting-edge look at what makes popular movies enjoyable.
Download or read book The Fixers written by E.J. Fleming and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling are virtually unknown outside of Hollywood and little-remembered even there, but as General Manager and Head of Publicity for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, they lorded over all the stars in Hollywood's golden age from the 1920s through the 1940s--including legends like Garbo, Dietrich, Gable and Garland. When MGM stars found themselves in trouble, it was Eddie and Howard who took care of them--solved their problems, hid their crimes, and kept their secrets. They were "the Fixers." At a time when image meant everything and the stars were worth millions to the studios that owned them, Mannix and Strickling were the most important men at MGM. Through a complex web of contacts in every arena, from reporters and doctors to corrupt police and district attorneys, they covered up some of the most notorious crimes and scandals in Hollywood history, keeping stars out of jail and, more importantly, their names out of the papers. They handled problems as diverse as the murder of Paul Bern (husband of MGM's biggest star, Jean Harlow), the studio-directed drug addictions of Judy Garland, the murder of Ted Healy (creator of The Three Stooges) at the hands of Wallace Beery, and arranging for an unmarried Loretta Young to adopt her own child--a child fathered by a married Clark Gable. Through exhaustive research and interviews with contemporaries, this is the never-before-told story of Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling. The dual biography describes how a mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world.
Download or read book 25 Best Films of Spencer Tracy written by Abby Books and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting the 25 Best Films of Spencer Tracy: A Movie Poster Mini-Book... A collection of vintage posters and poster art from the top 25 films of Academy Award-winning actor Spencer Tracy, known for his roles in Boys Town (1940), Inherit the Wind (1960) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) as well as his eight other memorable films with Katharine Hepburn. Included in this mini-book are full-sized posters and poster art on 8 x 10 pages presented in descending order, based on their IMDb (Internet Movie Database) Rating. Films included are: 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), Adam's Rib (1949), Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), Boom Town (1940), Boys Town (1938), Captains Courageous (1937), Desk Set (1957), Edison, the Man (1940), Father of the Bride (1950), Fury (1936), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), How the West Was Won (1962), Inherit the Wind (1960), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Libeled Lady (1936), Man's Castle (1933), Northwest Passage (1940), San Francisco (1936), Stanley and Livingstone (1939), State of the Union (1948), The Last Hurrah (1958), The Seventh Cross (1944), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Woman of the Year (1942) During his career, Tracy appeared in 75 films and is considered to be the greatest actor of the sound era. He won a record number two Academy Awards for Best Actor and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, amongst countless other awards. In 1999 Tracy was ranked as the 9th greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema by the American Film Institute. 30 Pages/Full Color on White Paper
Download or read book Spencer Tracy Fox Film Actor written by New England Vintage Film Society, Inc. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New England Vintage Film Society Inc. proudly presents this collection of essays and images extolling legendary two-time Academy Award winning actor Spencer Tracy's outstandingly energetic legacy of early screen performances in Fox's lively 1930s depression era pre-code films, rare Americana from Hollywood's Golden Age to be re-discovered, discussed and learned from today, including: Up the River (1930) Quick Millions (1931) Goldie (1931) Me and My Gal (1932) Face in the Sky (1933) The Power and The Glory (1933) Looking for Trouble (1934) Bottoms Up (1934) Now I'll Tell (1934) Marie Galante (1934) It's a Small World (1935) Dante's Inferno(1935)
Download or read book Tracy and Hepburn written by Garson Kanin and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conversations with Classic Film Stars written by James Bawden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bawden and Miller present an astonishing collection of rare interviews with the greatest celebrities of Hollywood's golden age. Conducted over the course of more than fifty years, they recount intimate conversations with some of the most famous leading men and women of the era. Each interview takes readers behind the scenes with some of cinema's most iconic stars, as the actors convey unforgettable stories.
Download or read book Spencer Tracy written by Romano Tozzi and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Northwest Passage written by Kenneth Roberts and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and fast paced adventure story based in colonial America. Written from the viewpoint of a fictional friend of the Historic Robert Rodgers, famed in America as the leader of 'Rodgers' Rangers' a guerrilla squadron harassing the English forces throughout the American War of Independence. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The Richard Burton Diaries written by Richard Burton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety “Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes Burton's extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time. His writings encompass many years—from 1939, when he was still a teenager, to 1983, the year before his death—and they reveal him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. The diary entries appear in their original sequence, with annotations to clarify people, places, books, and events Burton mentions. From these hand-written pages emerges a multi-dimensional man, no mere flashy celebrity. While Burton touched shoulders with shining lights—among them Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Huston, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Albee—he also played the real-life roles of supportive family man, father, husband, and highly intelligent observer. His diaries offer a rare and fresh perspective on his own life and career, and on the glamorous decades of the mid-twentieth century.
Download or read book Pictures at a Revolution written by Mark Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.
Download or read book Edmond O Brien written by Derek Sculthorpe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most versatile actors of his generation, Edmond O’Brien made a series of iconic noir films. From a man reporting his own murder in D.O.A. (1949) to the conflicted title character in The Bigamist (1953), he portrayed the confusion of the postwar Everyman. His memorable roles spanned genres from Shakespeare to westerns and comedies—he also turned his hand to directing. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as the harassed press agent Oscar Muldoon in Joseph Mankiewicz’s bitter Cinderella fable The Barefoot Contessa (1954). This first in-depth study of O’Brien charts his life and career from Broadway to Hollywood and to the rise of television, revealing a devoted family man dedicated to his craft.
