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Book by Charles Brackett Billy Wilder Walter Reisch Melchior Lengtel
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A digital copy of The 50 MGM Films that Transformed Hollywood by Steven Bingen Download is immediately available upon purchase
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A digital copy of Fall of Buster Keaton His Films for MGM Educational Pictures and Columbia by James L Neibaur Download is immediately available upon purchase
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This revised edition includes all the films produced and distributed by MGM from the early days of silent films through the golden age of the 1930s and 1940s right up to the blockbusters of the 80s and 90s Year by year every film is appraised alongside a still from the movie
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MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywoods most famous art director Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at MetroGoldwynMayer film studios from its inception in 1924 until Gibbons chose to retire in 1956 Lavishly illustrated with over 175 pristine duotone photographs the vast majority of which have never before been published this is the first volume to trace Gibbons trendsetting career At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s Gibbons was regularly acknowledged by his peers as having shaped the craft of art direction in American film his work was recognized as representing the finest in motion picture sets and settings Gibbons and his associates constructed the villages towns streets squares and edifices that later appeared in hundreds of films and whose mixed architecture stood in for army camps and the wild west Dutch New York and Dickensian London ancient China and modern Japan Inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus masters as well as the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris and Frank Lloyd Wrights experiments with open planning Gibbons championed the notion that movie decor should move beyond the commercial framework of the popular cinema
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MGM Style is an overview of the career and achievements of Hollywoods most famous art director Cedric Gibbons was the supervisor in charge of the art department at MetroGoldwynMayer film studios from its inception in 1924 until Gibbons chose to retire in 1956 Lavishly illustrated with over 175 pristine duotone photographs the vast majority of which have never before been published this is the first volume to trace Gibbons trendsetting career At its height in the late 1930s and early 1940s Gibbons was regularly acknowledged by his peers as having shaped the craft of art direction in American film his work was recognized as representing the finest in motion picture sets and settings Gibbons and his associates constructed the villages towns streets squares and edifices that later appeared in hundreds of films and whose mixed architecture stood in for army camps and the wild west Dutch New York and Dickensian London ancient China and modern Japan Inspired by the work of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus masters as well as the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris and Frank Lloyd Wrights experiments with open planning Gibbons championed the notion that movie decor should move beyond the commercial framework of the popular cinema
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This companion to MGM When the Lion Roars offers a collection of breathtaking posters that announced the alltime favorite classic MGM movies Includes posters from such film classics as Ben Hur 2001 A Space Odyssey The Wizard of Oz Dr Zhivago The Thin Man and more 35 illustrations many in color
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MGM Hollywoods Greatest Backlot is the illustrated history of the soundstages and outdoor sets where MetroGoldwynMayer produced many of the worlds most famous films During its Golden Age the studio employed the likes of Garbo Astaire and Gable and produced innumerable iconic pieces of cinema such as The Wizard of Oz Singin in the Rain and BenHurIt is estimated that a fifth of all films made in the United States prior to the 1970s were shot at MGM studios meaning that the gigantic property was responsible for hundreds of iconic sets and stages often utilizing and transforming minimal spaces and previously used props to create some of the most recognizable and identifiable landscapes of modern movie cultureAll of this happened behind closed doors the backlot shut off from the public in a veil of secrecy and movie magic MGM Hollywoods Greatest Backlot highlights this fascinating film treasure by recounting the history popularity and success of the MGM company through a tour of its physical propertyFeaturing the candid exclusive voices and photographs from the people who worked there and including hundreds of rare and unpublished photographs including many from the archives of Warner Bros readers are launched aboard a fun and entertaining virtual tour of Hollywoods most famous and mysterious motion picture studio
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Andy Hardy the original teen supreme comes careening to your screen in the first of a series of collections MGMs 1937 adaptation of Aurania Rouverols play Skidding a Family Affair proved such a stunning success that production commenced on a series inspired by it almost immediately The Hardy series was launched in 1937 with Youre Only Young Once and the cast of Lewis Stone Judge Hardy Mickey Rooney Andy Hardy Fay Holden Mrs Hardy Cecilia Parker Marian Hardy Sara Haden Aunt
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The last known copy of London After Midnight the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967 Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy but without success Different reconstructions of the filmone in book format the other as a motion picturehave continued to generate interest in recent years both relying primarily on the many surviving still photos arranged in sequence according to the films surviving cutting continuity with the motion picture cameras panning and zooming across themnbspThomas Mann who discovered the longlost 1928 Boys Cinema literary version of the film published by BearManor Media now offers a new and comparably important discovery an English translation of an equally lost French novelization of the story dating from 1929 written by someone who actually saw the film In a detailed comparison of this literary take on the story to the movie itself as represented by its cutting continuity Mann sheds considerable new light on the range of incoherent plot problems known to have bedeviled the film and on how they were creatively dealt with by a contemporary story tellernbspThomas Mann is a retired librarian and independent scholar living in Washington DC He is the author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research Oxford University Press 2015nbspLucien Boisyvon 18861967 author of Londres Après Minuit was a prolific writer newspaper critic and popular novelistnbspKieran ODriscoll holds a doctorate in FrenchEnglish Literary Translation from Dublin City University Among other works he has translated two plays by Jules Verne in BearManor Medias Palik Series of the North American Jules Verne Societynbsp
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With more than 100 dramatic movie and historical photos the official tiein to the film starring Nicolas Cage based on real events about the Navajo Marine code talkers who developed the only American code the Japanese never crackedfrom MGM in June 2002 In the first movie made on the subject director John Woo Mission Impossible 2 FaceOff reveals the invaluable actions of the Navajo code talkers during the war in the Pacific heroes whose bravery earned them the Congressional Medal of Honor The code talkers transmitted radio messages using a secret efficient unbreakable code based on their native language The films gripping climax takes place during the Battle of Saipan when the Marines fighting off the Japanese must risk their lives to safeguard the code This fullcolor companion book tells the fascinating story behind the moviefrom facts about the codes creation to historical background of the Navajo nation from a glimpse into the rigorous code talker training program to production details about transforming a Hawaiian landscape into a Saipan battlefront The pages are filled with captivating color images from the film and historic photographs from the US Marines and the National Archives as well personal reflections by Woo and Senator Jeff Bingaman screenwriters producers and actorsplus samples and translations of the Navajo code Approx 100 color photos
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THE LAST KNOWN COPY of London After Midnight the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967 Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy but without success Different reconstructions of the filmone in book format the other as a motion picturehave continued to generate interest in recent years both relying primarily on the many surviving still photos arranged in sequence according to the films surviving cutting continuity with the motion picture cameras panning and zooming across them Thomas Mann who discovered the longlost 1928 Boys Cinema literary version of the film published by BearManor Media now offers a new and comparably important discovery an English translation of an equally lost French novelization of the story dating from 1929 written by someone who actually saw the film In a detailed comparison of this literary take on the story to the movie itself as represented by its cutting continuity Mann sheds considerable new light on the range of incoherent plot problems known to have bedeviled the film and on how they were creatively dealt with by a contemporary story teller Thomas Mann is a retired librarian and independent scholar living in Washington DC He is the author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research Oxford University Press 2015 Lucien Boisyvon 18861967 author of Londres Après Minuit was a prolific writer newspaper critic and popular novelist Kieran ODriscoll holds a doctorate in FrenchEnglish Literary Translation from Dublin City University Among other works he has translated two plays by Jules Verne in BearManor Medias Palik Series of the North American Jules Verne Society
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When Greta Garbo made Queen Christina for MGM in 1933 she was at the height of her powers International stardom had given her unprecedented control over her career A new contract with the studio assured her consultation on story material and a veto over the directors of her films The story of Christina the seventeenthcentury queen of Sweden forced to choose between her private and public life was ideally suited to Garbos image Indeed Christinas eventual abdication was uncannily prophetic of Garbos sudden withdrawal from the cinema only eight years after this film The role called for the expression of an intense eroticism and the mysteriously compelling sexuality continues to fascinate both male and female audiences Marcia Landy and Amy Villarejo explore this with great subtlety showing the ways in which power and gender impose contradictory pressures
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The last known copy of London After Midnight the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967 Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy but without success Different reconstructions of the filmone in book format the other as a motion picturehave continued to generate interest in recent years both relying primarily on the many surviving still photos arranged in sequence according to the films surviving cutting continuity with the motion picture cameras panning and zooming across themnbspThomas Mann who discovered the longlost 1928 Boys Cinema literary version of the film published by BearManor Media now offers a new and comparably important discovery an English translation of an equally lost French novelization of the story dating from 1929 written by someone who actually saw the film In a detailed comparison of this literary take on the story to the movie itself as represented by its cutting continuity Mann sheds considerable new light on the range of incoherent plot problems known to have bedeviled the film and on how they were creatively dealt with by a contemporary story tellernbspThomas Mann is a retired librarian and independent scholar living in Washington DC He is the author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research Oxford University Press 2015nbspLucien Boisyvon 18861967 author of Londres Après Minuit was a prolific writer newspaper critic and popular novelistnbspKieran ODriscoll holds a doctorate in FrenchEnglish Literary Translation from Dublin City University Among other works he has translated two plays by Jules Verne in BearManor Medias Palik Series of the North American Jules Verne Societynbsp
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Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics These three performers and thirteen others Barbara Barondess Thomas Beck Mary Brian Pauline Curley Billie Dove Edith Fellows Rose Hobart William Janney Marcia Mae Jones Barbara Kent Anita Page Lupita Tovar and Barbara Weeks reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition
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Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics These three performers and thirteen others Barbara Barondess Thomas Beck Mary Brian Pauline Curley Billie Dove Edith Fellows Rose Hobart William Janney Marcia Mae Jones Barbara Kent Anita Page Lupita Tovar and Barbara Weeks reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition
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In Meet Me in St Louis one of the most popular MGM musicals Judy Garland stars as the classic American teenager For this book Gerald Kaufman interviewed many of the stars This text captures the essence of Miss Garlands performance and the machinations of the legendary MGM studios
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Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and later went on to become one of the top heroines in Westerns of the 1930s Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics These three performers and thirteen others Barbara Barondess Thomas Beck Mary Brian Pauline Curley Billie Dove Edith Fellows Rose Hobart William Janney Marcia Mae Jones Barbara Kent Anita Page Lupita Tovar and Barbara Weeks reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition from silents to talkies For the stage actors sound films were a natural move Some of the silent actors were not so fortunate often finding the studios reluctant to use their talents These men and women most in their seventies and eighties provide a unique look at a crucial period in film history
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THE LAST KNOWN COPY of London After Midnight the lost 1927 Lon Chaney film was destroyed in an MGM studio fire in 1967 Since then researchers have been combing film archives throughout the world in hopes of finding a surviving copy but without success Different reconstructions of the filmone in book format the other as a motion picturehave continued to generate interest in recent years both relying primarily on the many surviving still photos arranged in sequence according to the films surviving cutting continuity with the motion picture cameras panning and zooming across them Thomas Mann who discovered the longlost 1928 Boys Cinema literary version of the film published by BearManor Media now offers a new and comparably important discovery an English translation of an equally lost French novelization of the story dating from 1929 written by someone who actually saw the film In a detailed comparison of this literary take on the story to the movie itself as represented by its cutting continuity Mann sheds considerable new light on the range of incoherent plot problems known to have bedeviled the film and on how they were creatively dealt with by a contemporary story teller Thomas Mann is a retired librarian and independent scholar living in Washington DC He is the author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research Oxford University Press 2015 Lucien Boisyvon 18861967 author of Londres Après Minuit was a prolific writer newspaper critic and popular novelist Kieran ODriscoll holds a doctorate in FrenchEnglish Literary Translation from Dublin City University Among other works he has translated two plays by Jules Verne in BearManor Medias Palik Series of the North American Jules Verne Society
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