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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography [Browse]
• Motion picture producers and directors—United States—Biography [Browse]

Related name

• Tibbetts, John C. [Browse]
• Welsh, James Michael [Browse]

Notes

• Collection of essays previously published in the periodical, American classic screen.
• Includes index.

Contents

• Introduction / by James M. Welsh and John C. Tibbetts
• ACTORS AND ACTRESSES
• Olivia De Havilland, plaintiff / Joanne L. Yeck
• The lost movie of Errol Flynn / Wade Ward
• How a cinema legend was born: the screen testing of Marilyn Monroe / James Robert Haspiel
• The screen testing of Kim Novakáá / James Robert Haspiel
• The search for John Barrymore / Spencer Berger
• Steamboat around the bend: Will Rogers / Peter C. Rollins
• Uncensored Garbo / Charles Affron
• Will Rogers: the story behind his first talking picture / Reba Neighbors Collins
• THE GREAT PAIRS
• The Berkeley and Astaire-Rogers musicals / Rocco Fumento
• The screwball satirists: Wheeler and Woolsey / William M. Drew
• DIRECTORS. Kubrick, Killer's kiss, The killing, and film noir / Gene D. Phillips
• The twilight world of Roland West / Scott MacQueen
• William Wellman: the Paramount years (1927-1930) / Frank Thompson
• William Wellman's westerns / Frank Thompson
• FROM SILENTS TO SOUND. The squaw man returns / Roger Holden
• The birth of a nation: an assessment / Seymour Stern
• Innocence abroad: hearts of the world / James M. Welsh
• The big parade: a standard for the future / Lawrence H. Suid
• 50th anniversary of The jazz singer / Rosalind Rogoff
• From silence to sound / Rosalind Rogoff
• Important words from a film pioneer, made at the beginning of the era of sound / Irving Thalberg
• FILMS. King Kong and the military / Lawrence H. Suid
• The other authors of Gone with the wind / Rodney Richey
• Citizen Kane on the drawing board / John C. Tibbetts
• Val Lewton's The ghost ship: uncharted waters / J.P. Telotte
• The set-Up / James M. Welsh
• Wagon master / James M. Welsh
• "I want stone-age faces!" a behind-the-scenes look with Harry Carey, Patrick Ford, and Wes Jeffries at the making of John Ford's favorite film / James V. D'Arc
• Project RXM / John C. Tibbetts
• FILM HISTORY. Charlie Chan meets O.W.I. racism in World War II films / Gregory D. Black
• Disney outfoxed: The tale of Reynard / John Cawley, Jr.
• The movie adventures of Lewis Carroll's Alice / David and Maxine Schaefer
• The singing screen / David L. Parker
• Red alert images of Communism in Hollywood / J. Thomas Brown
• The rise and fall of the California Motion Picture Company / Geoffrey Bell
• Walt Disney and "The gremlins" / John Cawley, Jr.

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Other title(s)

American classic screen.

ISBN

• 9780810876781 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0810876787 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780810876798 (ebook)
• 0810876795 (ebook)

LCCN

2010014976

OCLC

608491343

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