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Oh, Calamity!: The lost, damaged and surviving films of the Aldwych farces and farceurs - Softcover

Newell, Mark

 
9781913551186: Oh, Calamity!: The lost, damaged and surviving films of the Aldwych farces and farceurs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1913551180 ISBN 13: 9781913551186
Verlag: The Book Guild Ltd, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The first-ever complete study of the Aldwych farce films (1924-1954) and the plays they were based on. The thirteen Aldwych farces were phenomenally successful in the West End between 1922 and 1933. The stars - Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls and Robertson Hare transferred their work to the screen equally successfully in the early 1930s. With humour that relied more on characterisation and clever wordplay than slapstick, they became top stars of the new sound films, 'talkies'. Also covered in the book are the screen originals written for the team by Ben Travers, the 1930s solo vehicles for both Lynn and Walls, and the later plays and films in which Hare appeared with Alfred Drayton. Each of the forty-eight films featured in the book is described in full, with its cast, credits, plot, history, availability and reviews. Ninety short profiles of the personnel involved (stars, leading ladies, supporting actors, playwrights, screenwriters, producers and directors) are included, as well as 200 rare illustrations.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Newell was formerly a Civil Servant in the Inland Revenue, Departments of the Environment and Transport and the Local Government Boundary Commission before his retirement. He is a long-term fan of vintage comedy films and collector of related memorabilia. He is a member of the Max Wall Society and is currently revising three humorous books - Flexi-Jargon, Flexi-Politics and Flexi-Film Noir. He lives in Surrey.

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Verlag
The Book Guild Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1913551180
ISBN 13 
9781913551186
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
338
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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