Download or read book Alexander Korda written by Paul Tabori and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hollywood Renegades written by J. A. Aberdeen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walt Disney, David O. Selznick, Mary Pickford, Orson Welles, and an elite group of movie producers secretly formed their own society in an effort to break up the old studio monopolies. The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers initiated profound changes in Hollywood but today has been forgotten Using original SlMPP documents, this book reveals the story that has waited over 40 years to be told.
Download or read book Alexander Korda written by Karol Kulik and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1975 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Korda written by Charles Drazin and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain a film industry that rivalled Hollywood, built Europe's biggest studio, and created world-class stars, including Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. The biography traces Korda's path from his rural childhood in a remote part of Hungary to a British knighthood. Korda's legacy, it argues, was a film industry that dared to dream on the largest possible scale. But he also exemplified the pattern of boom and bust that dogged the British cinema ever since he first came into the limelight in 1933 with the international success of The Private Life of Henry VIII. To understand his often turbulent career is to gain a profound insight into the nature of the British cinema both then and now.
Download or read book Korda written by Charles Drazin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The producer behind such celebrated films as The Four Feathers and The Third Man is one of the most colourful and important figures in the history of the British cinema. This gripping biography tells how with extraordinary ambition, enterprise and showmanship, Alexander Korda established in Britain a film industry that rivalled Hollywood, built Europe's biggest studio, and created world-class stars, including Charles Laughton and Vivien Leigh. The biography traces Korda's path from his rural childhood in a remote part of Hungary to a British knighthood. Korda's legacy, it argues, was a film industry that dared to dream on the largest possible scale. But he also exemplified the pattern of boom and bust that dogged the British cinema ever since he first came into the limelight in 1933 with the international success of The Private Life of Henry VIII. To understand his often turbulent career is to gain a profound insight into the nature of the British cinema both then and now.
Download or read book Korda written by Charles Drazin and published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Kordas own story is as extraordinary as any film hes ever made, taking him from revolutionary Hungary to Hollywood during the advent of sound, and London in the 30s where he set up a film empire. A friend of Churchill, he worked for British Intelligence and was knighted for his war effort. In his new book, Charles Drazin paints a vivid picture of this remarkable man.
Download or read book Charmed Lives written by Michael Korda and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet.Sir Alexander Korda, one of the world's most flamboyant movie tycoons, rose from obscurity in rural Hungary to become a legendary filmmaker. With him were his brothers, Zoltan and Vincent, all living charmed lives in circles that included H. G. Wells, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Marlena Dietrich, Vivien Leigh, and Merle Oberon, who was soon to be Alex's wife. But along with Alex's flair for success was an equally powerful impulse for destruction. Now, Vincent's son, Michael Korda, in the first book of his memoirs, recalls the enchanted figures of his childhood...the glory days of the Korda brothers' great films...and then their heartbreaking, tragic end.
Download or read book The Great Escape written by Kati Marton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the early twentieth century journey of nine prominent men from Budapest who fled fascism to seek sanctuary in America, where they made pivotal contributions to science, film, and photojournalism.
Download or read book Korda Collection written by Martin Stockham and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Korda, an outstanding figure of the British cinema, was among the first to embrace Technicolor and was responsible for such films as The Thief of Baghdad, The Four Feathers and Things to Come. This book is published in association with Central Television Enterprises, who have undertaken a major restoration of all his 31 films. It is illustrated with original production stills and includes a biography of the director, film synopses, production details and full cast lists. Contemporary reviews show how the films were received on their first release, and these are contrasted with a modern critique of each film.
Download or read book Alexander Korda s Story of the Thief of Baghdad written by Alexander Korda and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selling Hollywood to the World written by John Trumpbour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates European efforts to overcome the American film industry's international pre-eminence.
Download or read book Another Life written by Michael Korda and published by Delta. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his remarkable memoir, at once frank, audacious, canny, and revealing, Michael Korda, the author of Charmed Lives and Queenie, does for the world of books what Moss Hart did for the theater in Act One, and succeeds triumphantly in making publishing seem as exciting (and as full of great characters) as the stage. Another Life is not just an adventure--the engaging and often hilarious story of a young man making his career--but the insider's story of how a cottage industry metamorphosed into a big business, with sometimes alarming results for all concerned. Korda writes with grace, humor, and a shrewd eye, not only about himself and his rise from a lowly (but not humble) assistant editor reading the "slush pile" of manuscripts to a famous editor in chief of a major publishing house, but also about the celebrities and writers with whom he worked over four decades. Here are portraits--rare, intimate, always keenly observed--of such larger-than-life figures as Ronald Reagan, affable and good-natured but the most reluctant of authors, struggling with his "ghosted" presidential autobiography; Richard Nixon, seen here as a genial, if bizarrely detached, host; superagent Irving Lazar, pursuing his endless deals and dreams of "class"; retired Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno, the last of the old-time dons, laboring over his own version of his life in his desert retreat; Joan Crawford, giving Korda her rules for successful living; and countless other greats, near greats, and would-be greats. Here too are famous writers, sometimes eccentric, sometimes infuriating, sometimes lost souls, captured memorably by someone who was close to them for years: Graham Greene, in pursuit of his FBI file and a Nobel Prize; Tennessee Williams, wrestling unsuccessfully with his demons; Jacqueline Susann, facing and conquering the dreaded "second-novel syndrome" after the stunning success of Valley of the Dolls; Harold Robbins (who had to be guarded under lock and key and made to finish his novels), struggling to keep the IRS at bay from the deck of his yacht; Carlos Castaneda, at his most sorcerously charming, described--at last--in detail, as he really was, by one of the few people who knew him well; not to mention Richard Adams, Will and Ariel Durant, Susan Howatch, S. J. Perelman, Fannie Hurst, Larry McMurtry, and many, many more. Parts of this book that have appeared in The New Yorker over the years have brought Korda great acclaim--the chapter about Jacqueline Susann has been made into a major motion picture. Here at last, entertaining and provocative and always hugely readable, is the whole story--a book as engaging and full of life as Korda's highly acclaimed memoir of his family, Charmed Lives, about which Irwin Shaw wrote: "I don't know when I have enjoyed a book more."
Download or read book The Churchill War Papers written by Winston Churchill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The much-anticipated third volume of Churchill's fascinating papers.
Download or read book Alexander Korda s The Thief of Bagdad Authorized Edition Adapted from A Korda s Technicolor Production Etc written by Sir Alexander KORDA and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of the Third Man written by Charles Drazin and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Half a century after its opening, The Third Man remains an unquestioned masterpiece of film artistry and, for many, the greatest British movie ever made. Whether it is Harry Lime's magical first appearance or the celebrated cuckoo clock speech or the climactic chase through the sewers beneath Vienna or the haunting theme music of Anton Karas, the film contains some of the most memorable moments in screen history. Drawing on both contemporary documents and accounts of the people involved, In Search of The Third Man explores the many myths that over the years have grown around this extraordinary film, and seeks to unravel the facts from the fiction. "...you'll want to read The Third Man...The story of the film's creation is as intriguing as the film itself" Leonard Maltin, Playboy
Download or read book The History of British Film Volume 7 written by Rachael Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set is one of the cornerstones of film scholarship, and one of the most important works on twentieth century British culture. Published between 1948 and 1985, the volumes document all aspects of film making in Britain from its origins in 1896 to 1939. Rachael Low pioneered the interpretation of films in their context, arguing that to understand films it was necessary to establish their context. Her seven volumes are an object lesson in meticulous research, lucid analysis and accessible style, and have become the benchmark in film history.
Download or read book The British Film Catalogue written by Denis Gifford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 3325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to 1994. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.
