The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me
Author | : Lillian Gish |
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
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Author | : Lillian Gish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
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Author | : Lillian Gish |
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Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Lillian Gish |
Publisher | : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography |
ISBN | : 9780135366493 |
Author | : Lillian Gish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
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Author | : Gish |
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Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Film studies |
ISBN | : 9780491001038 |
Author | : Lillian Gish |
Publisher | : Scribner Book Company |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780684135717 |
Author | : Lillian Gish |
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Charles Affron |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2002-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780520234345 |
"As someone who worked with and knew Lillian Gish for years, I found Charles Affron’s portrait revealing and moving. He rekindles the life of this intuitive and generous artist beautifully."—Eva Marie Saint
Author | : Anthony Slide |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 595 |
Release | : 2002-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813137454 |
" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric lives of 100 players from the American silent film industry. He profiles the era's shining stars such as Lillian Gish and Blanche Sweet; leading men including William Bakewell and Robert Harron; gifted leading ladies such as Laura La Plante and Alice Terry; ingénues like Mary Astor and Mary Brian; and even Hollywood's most famous extra, Bess Flowers. Although each original essay is accompanied by significant documentation and an extensive bibliography, Silent Players is not simply a reference book or encyclopedic recitation of facts culled from the pages of fan magazines and trade periodicals. It contains a series of insightful portraits of the characters who symbolize an original and pioneering era in motion history and explores their unique talents and extraordinary private lives. Slide offers a potentially revisionist view of many of the stars he profiles, repudiating the status of some and restoring to fame others who have slipped from view. He personally interviewed many of his subjects and knew several of them intimately, putting him in a distinctive position to tell their true stories.
Author | : Howard Blum |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307410269 |
It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come. In American Lightning, acclaimed author Howard Blum masterfully evokes the incredible circumstances that led to the original “crime of the century”—and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself. With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city’s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the arrival, only that morning, of America’s greatest detective, William J. Burns, a former Secret Service man who has been likened to Sherlock Holmes. Surely Burns, already world famous for cracking unsolvable crimes and for his elaborate disguises, can run the perpetrators to ground. Through the work of many months, snowbound stakeouts, and brilliant forensic sleuthing, the great investigator finally identifies the men he believes are responsible for so much destruction. Stunningly, Burns accuses the men—labor activists with an apparent grudge against the Los Angeles Times’s fiercely anti-union owner—of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a terror wave involving hundreds of bombings. While preparation is laid for America’s highest profile trial ever—and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets—two other notable figures are swept into the drama: industry-shaping filmmaker D.W. Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the landmark film The Birth of a Nation; and crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, committed to lend his eloquence to the defendants, though he will be driven to thoughts of suicide before events have fully played out. Simultaneously offering the absorbing reading experience of a can’t-put-it-down thriller and the perception-altering resonance of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.