Adolph zukor (66 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. A knockout of a biography. -- Newsweek A silent-film star. A woman who played children, wide-eyed and gamine, skipping about in frills and long curls. That's how most people remember Mary Pickford. In reality, Pickford was a towering figure in movie history, central to the evolution of film acting and the development of the Hollywood motion picture industry. Born in Toronto in 1892, Pickford began acting as a child. She switched from stage to film at seventeen, joining D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company, and became almost unimaginably popular. This allowed her to dictate the terms of her contracts -- power she seized and consolidated. She developed her own production company at Adolph Zukor's Famous Players, and in 1919 she co-founded United Artists (along with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks), taking not only creative control but also direction of the marketing and distribution of her films. Eight years in the making, this definitive biography brings Pickford to life as a complex knot of contradictions and establishes her as a groundbreaking genius, casting new light on one of the most influential and least understood artists in the history of popular culture. Eileen Whitfield recreates Pickford's life in meticulously researched detail, from her trying days in turn-of-the-century Toronto through her reign as mistress of Pickfair, the legendary Beverly Hills estate at which she and Fairbanks entertained the world's elite, to her sadly moving demise. Along the way, Whitfield explores the intricate psychology that tied Pickford to her mother throughout her life and analyzes Pickford's brilliant innovations in the art of film acting, her profound influence on the movie business, and her role in the history of fame: once the best known woman in the world, she was the object of a mass adoration that prefigured today's cult of celebrity.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry. By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood's glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies-including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him-including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime-a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers-and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry. By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood's glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies-including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him-including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime-a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers-and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. For over 100 years, Paramount Pictures has been captivating movie and television audiences worldwide with its alluring imagery and compelling stories. Arising from the collective genius of Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, and Cecil B. DeMille during the 1910s, Paramount Pictures is home to such enduring classics as Wings, Sunset Boulevard, The Ten Commandments, Love Story, The Godfather, the Indiana Jones series, Chinatown, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, and Star Trek. Early Paramount Studios chronicles Paramount s origins, culminating in the creation and expansion of the lot at 5555 Melrose Avenue, the last major motion picture studio still in Hollywood.…

Pictorial Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. One cover illustration spans the front board and the spine strip. Another illustration is on the back board. The cover has "Jimmy" instead of "Jimmie." Pages with that name have "Jimmie." The endpapers have B & W illustrations, by "RR", of the movie set. 123 pages; chapters 1-7 have text on the left hand page and b & w photos on the right hand page. The cover has darkened on half of the spine and on an eighth of the front board. The bottom, front corner of the the boards and the corners and part of the edges of the spine strip are rubbed. The pages have darkened. Photos e-mailed upon request. Standard shipping cost is the U. S. will be reduced by $1.00. From the Photoplay produced by Adolph Zukor (illustrator).…

paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. DETAILS: PAPERBACK, HEAVY pencil annotations almost entirely in margins of chapter 16 on the television audience, book otherwise very good, marginal notes by American history professor might actually be a useful guide to a reader. previous owner's name. SKLAR, ROBERT. Movie-made America: a cultural history of American movies. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, later printing of the Revised and updated edition, xi, 417pp., . This vastly readable and richly illustrated volume examines film as art form, technological innovation, big business, and cultural bellwether. It takes in stars from Douglas Fairbanks to Sly Stallone; auteurs from D. W. Griffith to Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee; and genres from the screwball comedy of the 1930s to the "hard body" movies of the 1980s to the independent films of the 1990s. Combining panoramic sweep with detailed commentaries on hundreds of individual films, Movie-Made America is a must for any motion picture enthusiast. - CONTENTS: Pt. 1: The rise of movie culture -- The birth of a mass medium -- Nickel madness -- Edison's trust and how it got busted -- D. W. Griffith and the forging of motion-picture art -- Pt. 2: The movies in the age of mass culture -- Hollywood and the dawning of the Aquarian age -- The silent film and the passionate life -- Chaos, magic, physical genius and the art of silent comedy -- Movie-made children -- The house that Adolph Zukor built -- Pt. 3: Mass culture in the age of movies -- The moguls at bay and the censors' triumph -- The golden age at turbulence and the golden age of order -- The making of cultural myths: Walt Disney and Frank Capra -- Selling movies overseas -- The Hollywood gold rush -- Pt. 4: The decline of movie culture -- Hollywood at war for America and at war with itself -- The disappearing audience and the television crisis -- Hollywood's collapse -- The promise of personal film -- Nadir and revival -- Hollywood and the age of Reagan -- From myth to memory -- Independent images. ISBN 9780679755494. …

Hardback. Zustand: Good. New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry. By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood's glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies-including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him-including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime-a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers-and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.…

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. New York Times Bestseller Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry. By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood's glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies-including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now. In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him-including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime-a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate. A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers-and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.…

Hardcover. 254 pages. Clean, good binding. Ilustrated throughout. A year by year summary from 1894 to 1971. Includes a summary of important events for the year plus Illustrations of Directors and Personalities, Index. Snow White and the witch with the poison apple, Advertisements, photo of Adolph Zukor in a 3D camera promotion, West Side Story, Rene Clair directing, etc.…

Tapa blanda. Zustand: Buena. Con la colaboración de Dale Kramer, contiene numerosas ilustraciones fuera del texto. 13 X 19 Cms., 324 Pp.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The true story of Hitler's plot to turn Hollywood's Dream Factory into a Nazi propaganda machine--and the Jewish moguls' clandestine operation to sabotage the Reich's insidious reach. World War II began at Hollywood and Vine. From the moment Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, there was no American city he wanted to rule more than Los Angeles. Control the moviemaking capital of the world and Hitler could control the message that came out of it: As clear as black and white, America and all of Europe would see him as a hero and Jews as the villains. That the industry was run by Jewish men--Adolph Zukor, Sam Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, and the Warner brothers, among them--would make his victory all the sweeter. Unfortunately for Hitler, he had no idea who he was dealing with or what he up against in the City of Angels. Recognizing the threat, the movie moguls pooled their resources and financed a clandestine operation to subvert the sabotage. Their teams of undercover spies would infiltrate the German-American pro-Hitler organizations already gestating in Southern California and take out the vile Nazi agents of chaos one by one--by any means necessary. This mission to protect the American way would span a decade. Unfolding like a real-life World War II espionage thriller, and as explosive as nitrate, Hollywood vs. Nazis is one of the most fascinating chapters in heroic American history--and true movie lore--ever told.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fair. 22 oct now filed in mike's basementsurface wear.

Corrêa 1954 , in8 broché 317 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Illustrated paper over boards. Some chipping at head and tail of the spine, with wear around corners. This book once belonged to an enthusiastic young doodler named Bert, whose pencil marks can be found on the top and bottom edge of book, with his name written on the title page. Copyright page dated 1936. 123 pages. Stills from the movie throughout. Overall, a good copy.…

Vintage borderless photograph of film producer Adolph Zukor, circa 1937. With a printed mimeo snipe dated Jan. 25, 1937 affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of photography agency Underwood and Underwood. Austro-Hungarian-born producer Zukor established Paramount Pictures in 1916 alongside Jesse Lasky and William Wadsworth Hodkinson. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, slightly wavy, with light edgewear.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor creasing and chipping to the dust jacket. Moderate wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. …

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1954 first edition on black cloth.

Zustand: guter Zustand. Zustand, siehe Scan, ungelaufen - ca 14 cm X 9 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good dj. First Edition. [a solid clean copy, with the slightest trace of wear to bottom edge; white paper jacket is moderately soiled and unevenly browned, especially at spine]. (B&W photographs) "A well-documented and psychologically penetrating study of one of the largest industries in the United States. . [the author] loses nothing of the irony, humor, pathos and acrimony that have characterized the growth of the industry, yet her touch is a light one and the intricacies of high finance are simplified and made dramatic." NOISBN.…

Zustand: Very Good. Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated paper covers. 12'' x 9''. Contains 6 pages. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other pieces of sheet music sung by Bing Crosby. Member of the P.B.F.A. CROSBY, Bing (1903-1977).…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 344 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xvi, [2], 525, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear, soiling, and some sticker residue on back. DJ front flap creased. This is one of the Film and Culture series. Louis Pizzitola is a visual artist and an amateur filmmaker. It was William Randolph Hearst who understood how to use cinema to exploit the public's desire for entertainment and to create film propaganda. Hearst saw his future and the future of Hollywood as one and the same. He pioneered and capitalized on the synergistic relationship between journalism and advertising and motion pictures. He sent movie cameramen to the inauguration of William McKinley and the front lines of the Spanish-American War. He played a prominent role in organizing film propaganda for World War I. By the 1910s, Hearst was producing his own pictures-he ran one of the first animation studios and made many popular movie serials, including The Perils of Pauline (creating both the scenario and the catchphrase title) and Patria. As a feature film producer, Hearst was responsible for some of the most talked-about movies of the 1920s and 1930s. Hearst had few equals-he was a much-feared power broker from the Silent Era to the Blacklisting Era. Hearst Over Hollywood draws on hundreds of previously unpublished letters and memos, FBI Freedom of Information files, and personal interviews to document the scope of Hearst's power in Hollywood. Pizzitola tells the story of Hearst's shaping influence on both film publicity and film censorship-getting the word out and keeping it in check-as well as the growth of the "talkies," and the studio system. He details Hearst's anti-Communism, used to retaliate for Citizen Kane and to maintain dominance in the film industry, and exposes his secret deal with Germany on the eve of World War II. The author also presents new insights into Hearst's relationships with Marion Davies, Will Hays, Louis B. Mayer, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hitler, and the Kennedys. Hearst Over Hollywood is a tour de force of biography, cultural study, and film history that reveals as never before the brilliance and darkness of Hearst's prophetic connection with Hollywood.…

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. The format is approximately 5.125 inches by 8 inches. vi, [2], 502 pages. Illustrations. Reference Notes. A Note on Sources. A Selected Bibliography. Index. Some cover wear and soiling, and a crease at the back. Provocative, original group biography of the Jewish immigrants who came to dominate the American film industry. These men--Adolph Zukor, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner Brothers, Harry Cohn--created an image of America out of their idealism. Neal Gabler (born 1950) is an American journalist, writer and film critic. Gabler has contributed to numerous publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, Vogue, American Heritage, The New Republic, Us, and Playboy. He has appeared on many television programs, including The Today Show, CBS Morning News, The News Hour, Entertainment Tonight, Charlie Rose, and Good Morning America. He hosted Sneak Previews for PBS, and introduced films on the cable network AMC. He is the author of seven books: An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality; Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination; Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power; Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour 1932-1975; and Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009. A provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry Warner, and Adolph Zucker are giants in the history of contemporary Hollywood, outsiders who dared to invent their own vision of the American Dream. Even to this day, the American values defined largely by the movies of these émigrés endure in American cinema and culture. Who these men were, how they came to dominate Hollywood, and what they gained and lost in the process is the exhilarating story of An Empire of Their Own. Derived from a Kirkus review: Very readable Hollywood history with a strong, thoroughly spelled-out theme, that once-poverty-stricken East European Jews have remade America in the image of their own dreams. Gabler writes clearly and simply, his history distinguished by exceptionally convincing ideas. The vehicle for those ideas are the lives of the great founding Hollywood moguls: Adolph Zukor, who built Paramount; the Warner Brothers; Harry Cohn of Columbia; Carl Laemmle of Universal Pictures; William Fox of Twentieth Century-Fox; Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; and, later, Wunderkind Irving Thalberg of MGM. These lives are limned at length, in wonderful detail. The empire they build is a dream America, not the real country at all, and the house style of each company reflects the personality of its head mogul. In the end, the America created by these businessmen become the America that later generations of movie-goers took as the real place and made over in the Hollywood image. What united the moguls in deep spiritual kinship "was their utter and absolute rejection of their pasts and their equally absolute devotion to their new country. . . [s] omething drove the young Hollywood Jews to a ferocious, even pathological embrace of America. Something drove them to deny whatever they had been before settling here. One common, undeniable factor was a patrimony of failure. All had grown up in destitution." Gabler makes a strong case for the brash urban energies of Warner Brothers pictures being the energies of Jack Warner, the sumptuousness of MGM style being Louis B. Mayer, and so on throughout the dream factory. Only in this way could these immigrants satisfy their hunger for assimilation in a country that essentially had rejected them: by remaking the country in their own image. True or not, Gabler's book may well reshape Hollywood history into this image. First Anchor Books Edition [Stated]. Presumed first printing.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Ed. minor fading to board edges yet clean, binding solid and strong, interior text clean. DJ covers toned and lightly worn, bottom 3/5 of dj spine missing, top 1" of front dj cover missing, large chip top rear dj, price-clipped, in mylar cover.…

tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Cine.(791.4) El publico nunca se equivoca: la historia de los 50 años del cine La Isla. Buenos Aires. 1955. 18 cm. 310 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Ilustrado . Cubierta deslucida. (=3810585=) MQ07.

Tapa blanda. Zustand: Bueno. 23 x 30 cm. Lamina procedente de la revista: Cinelandia, numero 1.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. R320161091: 1954. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 317 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 791.43-Cinéma.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 293 pages; Description: vii, 293 p. Front. , plates, ports. 25 cm. Subjects: Zukor, Adolph, 1873-1976. Motion pictures--History. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 309 pages; Description: 309 p. Illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Zukor, Adolph (1873-1976) . Motion pictures --History. 1 Kg.…