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Young, Jordan R.

Moonstone Press

This exhaustive directory to entertainment of the 1920s, '30s and '40s includes over 1,100 sources for silent movies and B-westerns on home video,78 rpm records, old radio shows, movie memorabilia and animation art, sheet music, fan clubs devoted to vintage entertainers, traditional jazz festivals, big band and nostalgia radio stations, revival cinemas, libraries and museums, and more.

Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook: The Complete Resource Guide to Classic Movies, Vintage Music, Old Time Radio and Theatre

Arts & Photography

Skretvedt, Randy

Performing Arts

Past Times Pub Co

The acclaimed biography of the pistol-packing bandleader and his his accomplices in musical mayhem, whose zany slam-bang versions of classics and popular songs are enjoying a major resurgence via CD and home video. This book offers an irreverant backstage look at the man behind the carefully-crafted image: a lover of classical music who wanted to be taken seriously, a man with a razor-sharp tongue and an X-rated sense of humor, and a shrewd public relations wizard who never made an unrehearsed move.

Spike Jones Off the Record : The Man Who Murdered Music

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Twelve of Hollywood's top comedy writers and speak their minds about the so-called good old days, and recall the outrageous backstage antics of legendary comedians. No one is spared in frank, uncensored and frequently hilarious conversations about the stone age of broadcasting -- the 1930s, '40s and '50s -- when advertising agencies controlled the programs, stars ran amok and writers were treated with profound disrespect, like a necessary evil.

The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and Tv's Golden Age

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

The greatest silent film perhaps ever made was so unusual, it was not released for almost a year. It broke every rule in the book and lost out on an Academy Award because it dared to show a toilet in a modest family apartment. The classic World War I drama “The Big Parade” became the most profitable film in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer history, a rank it held until “Gone With the Wind.” As a result, producer Irving Thalberg gave director King Vidor a chance to make a seemingly non-commercial film about the average man’s journey through life. MGM could afford an experiment now and then, Hollywood’s boy wonder assured Vidor without seeing a screenplay. The finished film grossed nearly $1 million but was so offbeat the studio delayed it and nervously reworked it, omitting a prominent character played by a rising young star. Several different finales were filmed; it was clumsily sent out to theatre owners with an alternate happy ending, and the choice left up to them. “The Crowd” was among the last silent films, released in 1928 at the dawn of the talkies and saved from the dreaded addition of sound sequences perhaps only because MGM was slower than most studios to adopt the new technology. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer himself vetoed the film’s Academy Award chances because Vidor showed a lavatory, referring to it as “that goddamn toilet picture.” James Murray, an extra handpicked for the starring role, managed to hide a serious drinking problem during filming but allowed it to destroy a promising career and died tragically young. In addition to his interviews with Vidor and Eleanor Boardman, his then-wife and the film’s female lead, the author had access to studio memos, telegrams and other documents—plus virtually every draft of the screenplay, enabling him to track the project from rough idea to problematic finished product. The book describes and illustrates a variety of deleted scenes, as well as alternate endings. Details of the film’s release and restoration are also included, along with biographical sketches of the cast and crew and a listing of unbilled actors and creative personnel, many previously uncredited. “ ‘The Crowd’ is practically plotless. And yet every incident is so brilliantly directed and acted that the film blazes to life. The shots are simple, yet full of emotional power; King Vidor treats his characters so lovingly and with such understanding that one cannot help but share his feelings. ‘The Crowd’ is the finest American silent film I have ever seen,” says Oscar-winning film historian Kevin Brownlow, who wrote the forward. “Jordan Young’s research is worthy of his subject… I read it at one gulp, and found it as fascinating as I had hoped.” The revised paperback edition includes more than 100 illustrations, magazine and newspaper articles and other memorabilia, much of it omitted from the ebook. The essence of the separately published Addendum is also included, as of Sept. 12, 2017.

King Vidor's THE CROWD: The Making of a Silent Classic (Past Times Film Close-Up Series)

Past Times Publishing Company

Spike Jones and his City Slickers: An illustrated biography

The acclaimed biography of the pistol-packing bandleader and his accomplices, whose zany versions of popular songs like "Cocktails for Two" are enjoying a major resurgence in popularity via CD, home video and cable. Foreword by Dr. Demento, discography, who's who of band members, index. First edition hardcover includes rare photos and memorabilia deleted from revised paperback edition ("Spike Jones Off the Record"). Out of print; limited stock available.

Spike Jones and His City Slickers: An Illustrated Biography

Music

Disharmony Books

Reel Characters: Great Movie Character Actors

Home video and cable TV have brought these unforgettable faces from Hollywood's Golden Era into millions of living rooms. Interview-profiles with 12 of the movies' best-loved supporting players, including Elisha Cook (the baby-faced gunman in "The Maltese Falcon"), Sam Jaffe (the High Lama in "Lost Horizon"), Beulah Bondi (Jimmy Stewart's mother in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"), Fritz Feld (the perennial maitre d'), John Qualen, Charles Lane, Iris Adrian, John Carradine and Anita Garvin (the scorned wife or girlfriend in many Laurel and Hardy comedies). Together they offer a fresh perspective on the stars and directors of the past. They reveal what it was really like to work alongside such legends as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard and W.C. Fields; how they were treated by superstar directors like Frank Capra, John Ford and Orson Welles. The book includes over 100 rare photos and extensive filmographies, plus a foreword by Fritz Feld.

Home video and cable TV have brought these unforgettable faces from Hollywood's Golden Era into millions of homes. Interview-profiles with 12 of the movies' best loved supporting players -- including Sam Jaffe, Beulah Bondi, Elisha Cook, Fritz Feld, Iris Adrian, John Carradine, Charles Lane, John Qualen and Anita Garvin -- offer a fresh perspective on the stars and directors of the past. The actors' candid remarks, hilarious anecdotes and shrewd observations give the reader rare glimpse behind the tinsel. What was it really like working with W.C. Fields, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, John Barrymore and Laurel &amp; Hardy? You'll find out here. Movie Entertainment Book Club main selection. Includes foreword by Fritz Feld, over 100 photos, extensive filmographies (including unbilled bits), index. Hardcover out of print; limited stock available.

The first biography of Samuel Beckett's favorite actor and foremost interpreter discusses their collaboration on the definitive production of "Waiting for Godot" -- and reveals how MacGowran changed forever the public perception of Beckett from a purveyor of despair to a writer of wit, humanity and courage. The actor's collaboration with filmmaker Roman Polanski is also discussed in detail.

The Beckett Actor: Jack Macgowran, Beginning to End

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How to become a successful freelance writer: A practical guide to getting published

Nostalgia Entertainment Sourcebook: The Complete Resource Guide to Classic Movies, Vintage Music, Old Time Radio and Theatre

Spike Jones Off the Record : The Man Who Murdered Music

The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and Tv's Golden Age

King Vidor's THE CROWD: The Making of a Silent Classic (Past Times Film Close-Up Series)

Spike Jones and His City Slickers: An Illustrated Biography

Spike Jones and his City Slickers: An illustrated biography

Reel Characters: Great Movie Character Actors

Reel Characters: Great Movie Character Actors

The Beckett Actor: Jack Macgowran, Beginning to End