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Review: Sex In the Cinema: The Pre-Code Years (1929-1934) by Lou Sabini

October 13, 2017 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Sex In the Cinema by Lou Sabini

Review of Sex In the Cinema: The Pre-Code Years (1929-1934) by Lou Sabini, an encyclopedic collection of articles about 107 pre-Code movies. 2017, BearManor.

Filed Under: Announcements, News - Notes Tagged With: book reviews, Lou Sabini, movie book reviews, pre-Code

Recommended: Women Film Editors by David Meuel

July 7, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Women Film Editors by David Meuel

A look at David Meuel’s highly recommended third volume of film history Women Film Editors, published by McFarland, 2016.

Filed Under: Announcements, News - Notes Tagged With: book reviews, David Meuel, movie book reviews

Review: Nobody’s Stooge: Ted Healy by Bill Cassara

March 23, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Ted Healy in San Francisco

A review of the 2015 BearManor Media release Nobody’s Stooge: Ted Healy by Bill Cassera. A biography of the creator of The Three Stooges, who met an untimely and controversial death in 1937.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Bill Cassara, book reviews, movie book reviews, Ted Healy, The Three Stooges

Review: Women in the Films of John Ford by David Meuel

July 28, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Women in the Films of John Ford by David Meuel

In praise of David Meuel’s excellent volume, Women in the Films of John Ford, which focuses on an often ignored aspect of the director’s work. Review includes a dissection of Meuel’s chapter about Henrietta Crosman in Ford’s Pilgrimage.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: book reviews, David Meuel, Henrietta Crosman, John Ford, movie book reviews

‘My Lunches with Orson’ Review – Orson Welles Speaks

July 23, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

My Lunches with Orson

‘My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles” as recorded between 1983-85. Edited with introduction by Peter Biskind. A fascinating new book that was much better than anticipated.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: book reviews, henry holt, henry jaglom, metropolitan books, movie book reviews, my lunches with orson, Orson Welles, peter biskind

Review: Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond by Scott Allen Nollen

July 12, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti 19 Comments

Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond by Scott Allen Nollen

A review of Scott Allen Nollen’s Three Bad Men: John Ford, John Wayne, Ward Bond. Published by McFarland in March 2013.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: book reviews, John Ford, John Wayne, mcfarland, movie book reviews, Scott Allen Nollen, three bad men, Ward Bond

Sidebar: Walter Huston and the Duke of Crovenay

April 3, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Walter Huston as picturing on 1933 Dixie Premium

A review of John Weld’s biography of Walter Huston, September Song, including a story about the fabled Duke of Crovenay and the birth of the Crovenay Society.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: book reviews, crovenay, james curtis, john weld, loyal davis, movie book reviews, september song, ty cobb, Walter Huston

Alan Mowbray Book Review: Up from Central Park: Scenes From an Actor’s Life

January 20, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 8 Comments

Alan Mowbray in My Man Godfrey

Over 40 years after his death the memoirs of character actor Alan Mowbray have been published by his son, Alan, Jr. A look at Mowbray’s life and the memories he left us.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: Alan Mowbray, biography, book review, character actors, memoirs, movie book reviews

Dwight Frye’s Last Laugh – Before and Beyond Dracula and Frankenstein

October 18, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Dwight Fryes Last Laugh

Dwight Frye is legendary for his roles in the Universal horror classics Dracula and Frankenstein. The 1997 biography Dwight Frye’s Last Laugh chronicles the actor’s fast rise to surprising heights and even quicker fall.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: biography, book review, Dracula, Dwight Frye, Frankenstein, gregory mank, Horror, james t coughlin, movie book reviews, Universal Horror

Myrna Loy – The Only Good Girl in Hollywood vs. Being and Becoming

October 5, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 23 Comments

Myrna Loy’s 1987 autobiography Being and Becoming is an all-time favorite here. 2011 brings the first Myrna Loy biography since that time, Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood by Emily W. Leider. Here’s a look at both titles, side by side.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: autobiography, Being and Becoming, biography, book review, Clark Gable, emily w leider, james kotsilibas davis, Jean Harlow, movie book reviews, Myrna Loy, William Powell

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