A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True, 1907-1940 Victoria Wilson Release Date: November 12, 2013 Simon & Schuster Hardcover, 1044 pages The word “exhaustive” gets thrown around quite a bit when talking about biographies. But never has that term been more aptly used than when referring to Victoria Wilson’s stunning recent biography of film legend Barbara Stanwyck.…
Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad Ronald L. Davis Release Date: July 24, 2013 (Reprint); February 27, 2006 (Original printing) University Press of Mississippi Softcover, 238 pages Last summer, the University Press of Mississippi reprinted Ronald L. Davis’ biography of character actor Zachary Scott, subtitled Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad, in paperback. As today marks the centennial of Scott’s…
85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards Robert Osborne Release Date: October 29, 2013 Abbeville Press Hardcover, 472 pages Turner Classic Movies’ annual tribute to Academy Award-winning film gets underway tomorrow with this year’s celebration of “31 Days of Oscar.” The network is kicking things off with quite a bang,…
Majestic Hollywood: The Greatest Films of 1939 Mark A. Vieira Release Date: December 10, 2013 Running Press Softcover, 224 pages Every classic film fan has his/her own favorite decade, a span of time which they wholeheartedly believe produced the greatest movies of all time. (Personally, I gravitate towards the 1930s, from the naughty pre-Code period…
Who Wacked Roger Rabbit Gary K. Wolf Release Date: November 29, 2013 Musa Publishing E-book, 262 pages Roger Rabbit fans, rejoice: author Gary K. Wolf (that’s him play-acting on the cover above) has written a third book in the mischievous Rabbit’s franchise. Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?, set for release (e-book only) later this month, is sure…
Vivien Leigh: An Intimate Portrait Kendra Bean Release Date: October 15, 2013 Running Press Hardcover, 272 pages Tomorrow, November 5th, marks the one hundredth anniversary of Vivien Leigh’s birth. And though she appeared in fewer than two dozen films during her career, she remains one of the most memorable actresses to ever grace the screen,…
Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography David S. Shields Release Date: June 19, 2013 The University of Chicago Press Hardcover, 401 pages In the opening pages of his recent book on American silent film photography, Still, David S. Shields estimates that over eighty percent of the silent features produced within the first three decades of filmmaking…
Jack Hunter made a name for himself as “Action Jack,” star of a series of adventure flicks in the 1930s. But by 1942, the world is at war, he’s retired from the screen, and he’s living on a ranch with his fellow survivors from a previous jungle adventure: his wife, Max; her nephew, Tyler, and…
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