Collection of essays previously published in the periodical, American classic screen. Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction / by James M. Welsh and John C. Tibbetts -- ACTORS AND ACTRESSES -- In the state of California: De Havilland, plaintiff vs. Warner Bros., defendant / Joanne L. Yeck -- The lost movie of Errol Flynn / Wade Ward -- How a cinema legend was born: the screen testing of Marilyn Monroe / James Robert Haspiel -- The screen testing of Kim Novak / James Robert Haspiel -- The search for John Barrymore: the quest is elusive for the "lost" Barrymore films / Spencer Berger -- Innocence protected: : Will Rogers and Steamboat 'round the bend / Peter C. Rollins -- Uncensored Garbo / Charles Affron -- Will Rogers: the story behind his first talking picture / Reba Neighbors Collins -- THE GREAT PAIRS -- Those Busby Berkeley and Astaire-Rogers deprssion musicals: two different worlds / Rocco Fumento -- The screwball satirists: Wheeler and Woolsey / William M. Drew -- DIRECTORS. Kubrick, Killer's kiss, The killing, and film noir / Gene D. Phillips -- The twilight world of Roland West: a forgotten master of the macabre / Scott MacQueen -- William Wellman: the Paramount years (1927-1930) / Frank Thompson -- William Wellman's westerns / Frank Thompson -- FROM SILENTS TO SOUND. The squaw man returns / Roger Holden -- The birth of a nation: an assessment / Seymour Stern -- Innocence abroad: hearts of the world / James M. Welsh -- The big parade: a standard for the future / Lawrence H. Suid -- The jazz singer: a commentary on the film's 50th anniversary / Rosalind Rogoff -- From silence to sound; the transformation of the motion picture industry / Rosalind Rogoff -- Important words from a film pioneer, made at the beginning of the era of sound / Irving Thalberg -- FILMS. King Kong and the military / Lawrence H. Suid -- The other authors of Gone with the wind / Rodney Richey -- Citizen Kane on the drawing board / John C. Tibbetts -- Val Lewton's The ghost ship: uncharted waters / J.P. Telotte -- Knockout in paradise: an appraisal of The set-up / James M. Welsh -- John Ford's Wagon master: rite of passage / James M. Welsh -- "I want stone-age faces!" a behind-the-scenes look with Harry Carey, Patrick Ford, and Wes Jeffries at the making of John Ford's favorite film / James V. D'Arc -- Project RXM / John C. Tibbetts -- FILM HISTORY. Charlie Chan meets O.W.I. racism in World War II films / Gregory D. Black -- Disney outfoxed: The tale of Reynard at the Disney studio / John Cawley, Jr. -- Alice's looking glass: the movie adventures of Lewis Carroll's Alice / David and Maxine Schaefer -- The singing screen: remembering those movies that not only talked but sang.. / David L. Parker -- Red alert images of Communism in Hollywood / J. Thomas Brown -- The rise and fall of the California Motion Picture Company / Geoffrey Bell -- Walt Disney and "The gremlins": an unfinished story / John Cawley, Jr.
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