George Arliss

Robert M Fells

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 113
• By any reasonable expectation, George Arliss should not have succeeded as a star, either on stage or in film. Yet he achieved a career enjoyed by very... Lees meer

Music from the House of Hammer

Randall D Larson

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 47
• Hammer Film Productions produced Horror/Fantasy films with a unique sound. The musicians and the work they did are chronicled here in careful detail. Lees meer

Saved from Oblivion

Bernard Vorhaus

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 77
• Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of the foremost silent film directors in America, working for studios such as P... Lees meer

The Films of Steven Spielberg

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 94
• The Films of Steven Spielberg provides for the first time a collection of critical writings by professional film critics about the director and his fi... Lees meer

Hugo Friedhofer

Linda Danly

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 66
• New in Paperback! Surveys the impressive career of Hugo Friedhofer, one of Hollywood's extraordinary composers of music for the movies. The composer o... Lees meer

Straight from the Horse's Mouth

Ronald Neame, With Barbara Roisman Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 98
• Now in Paperback! Straight from the Horse's Mouth provides a fascinating, first-hand account of a unique filmmaker, who began his career as assistant ... Lees meer

Body and Soul

Tony J Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 110
• Body and Soul concentrates on the creative and cultural dilemmas-both personal and political-that affect the individuals in Aldrich's films. Lees meer

Joseph H. Lewis

Francis M Nevins

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 59
• The first full-length account of the life and work of Joseph H. Lewis, the noted director of films such as My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and The Hallid... Lees meer

Showdown at High Noon

Jeremy Byman

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 111
• This is a study of one of the most enduring Westerns, High Noon , a film whose political, cultural, and thematic implications have had a profound infl... Lees meer

Budd Schulberg

Nicholas Beck

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 91
• This is the first overview of Schulberg's career 1937-2000 (his own autobiography, Moving Pictures , covers his life only to age 17). This book covers... Lees meer

And the Stars Spoke Back

Frawley Becker

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 114
• Shopping with Audrey Hepburn...Clubbing with Peter O'Toole...Going to the races with Omar Sharif...Witnessing a domestic spat between Rex Harrison and... Lees meer

Reinventing Reality-The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian

Mark J Spergel

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 37
• Theatre and film director Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1987) is known chiefly as a major technical innovator and stylist. Spergel introduces previously undi... Lees meer

No Film in My Camera

Bill Gibson, Jack R Lousma

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 76
• Beginning his 60-year film and photo career at the outbreak of World War II on the deck of the ill-fated aircraft carrier USS Hornet , Gibson lived th... Lees meer

Stanley Donen

Joseph Andrew Casper

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 5
• A clear and insightful analysis of the life and work of American director and coreographer, Stanley Donen. Lees meer

The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché

Roberta Blaché

• Paperback | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 12
• Provides an original, first-hand view of the potential that motion pictures offered women from the Victorian era, and how, ultimately, the industry re... Lees meer

Worms in the Winecup

John Bright

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 97
• An extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Publi... Lees meer

Stuart Erwin

Judy Cornes

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 87
• Judy Cornes closely analyzes the life and work of Stuart Erwin, a popular actor in the thirties and forties, focusing primarily on Erwin's career in m... Lees meer

Malcolm St. Clair

Ruth Anne Dwyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 38
• Malcolm St. Clair was a master director of sophisticated silent comedy. This book traces his career, beginning with his start as a Mack Sennett Keysto... Lees meer

Between the Bullets

Michael Bliss

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 92
• Through an examination of representative films from the director's Hong Kong and American periods, Michael Bliss demonstrates that Woo should be regar... Lees meer

Confessions of a Hollywood Director

Richard L Bare

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 89
• Richard Bare is primarily known as the sole director of the television series Green Acres , but his Hollywood career spanned over 40 years, starting w... Lees meer

The Creative Producer

James Curtis

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 36
• For twenty-five years, David Lewis (1903-1987) was an associate film producer at a time when a major studio produced an average of a film a week. In t... Lees meer

A Great Lady

Larry Ceplair

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 50
• Sonya Levien was among the most successful and respected screenwriters in Hollywood. During her career from 1919 to 1960, Levien worked on well over o... Lees meer

The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers

Scott Salwolke

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 52
• Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger successfully collaborated on 16 films over a period of 15 years, most often with their identities united as the ... Lees meer

On Actors and Acting

Anthony Slide

• Hardcover | Engels | Scarecrow Filmmakers | nr. 63
• Alexander Knox (1907-1995) was a distinguished stage and screen actor, who is best remembered today for his title performance in the 1944 production o... Lees meer