Recreates the filming of the movie, from the first script drafts, through casting, designing, and editing, to final cut, with interviews with people involved and details of happy and not-so-happy moments

The Making of the Wizard of Oz

Humor & Entertainment

Harmetz, Aljean

Movies

KNOPF

First Edition. SIGNED and inscribed by Author on first end page. "Best Wishes Aljean Harmetz. Some foxing to edges. Shelf and edge wear, tiny tears with creasing, scratches to DJ. Pages are clean. Binding is Tight.

Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business

Distributed by Random House

Off the Face of the Earth

When an eight-year-old boy disappears from a suburban mall in Los Angeles, the police call it a murder and close the case, leaving the son's determined mother and a maverick police officer on their own to find the missing child. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pocket

While a kidnapped boy bravely struggles to outwit his disturbed captor, the police charge a local schizophrenic with his murder, and his disbelieving mother appeals to a skeptical police officer for help. A first novel. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

United States

Scribner

First published to great success in 1977 and reprinted with a new preface, a look at the making of the 1938 movie classic and its forever-famous stars provides behind-the-scenes facts and black-and-white photographs. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM

Hyperion

Critically acclaimed when published in 1992 as Round Up the Usual Suspects, The Making of Casablanca offers the ultimate insider's look at the politics and personalities behind the most celebrated movie of all time--Casablanca. Updated and timed for the 60th anniversary (Thanksgiving Day, 1942) of this movie, this critically acclaimed book draws upon years of research, including access to Ingrid Bergman's personal acting diaries and the vast Warner Brothers archives, as well as interviews with many of those close to the film, including the late Paul Henreid, Lauren Bacall, and scriptwriters Howard Koch and Julius Epstein. Richly detailed and full of surprises, The Making of Casablanca debunks many cherished myths about the casting, script, story, and stars, to reveal the realities of the highly pressured Hollywood studio system during World War II.

The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Grand Central Publishing

Examines the personal archives of the classic movie's producer, David O. Selznick, and reveals prospective casting lists, pages from original scripts, costume sketches, and many more insights into the making of the movie

On the Road to Tara: The Making of Gone With the Wind

Performing Arts

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

A noted journalist has gained access to the Gone With the Wind producer's private archive, as well as several other large collections, to reveal prospective casting lists, more than one hundred photographs, and many more insights into the making of the blockbuster movie. BOMC.

On the Road to Tara

Harry N. Abrams

Color Wizard of Oz photo 329pages approx 9x6

The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM--and the Miracle of Production#1060

Baum., L. Frank

Limelight Editions

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca" - Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

It is 50 years since "Casablanca" opened up in America. Little did Humphrey Bogart know when he uttered the final line - "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship" - that he had just closed what would be one of the most enduring and popular movies ever. Aljean Harmetz believes that "every movie is a creature built from accidents and blind choices - a mechanical monster constructed of camera angles, the chemistry between actors, too little money or too much and a thousand unintended moments". Her portrait of the making of an unmatched classic reveals some of the accidents: how the stars of the movie almost weren't Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman; how "As Time Goes By" nearly didn't make it to the final cut.

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The Making of the Wizard of Oz

Rolling Breaks and Other Movie Business

Off the Face of the Earth

Off the Face of the Earth

The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM

The Making of Casablanca: Bogart, Bergman, and World War II

On the Road to Tara: The Making of Gone With the Wind

On the Road to Tara

The Making of the Wizard of Oz: Movie Magic and Studio Power in the Prime of MGM--and the Miracle of Production#1060

Round Up the Usual Suspects: The Making of "Casablanca" - Bogart, Bergman, and World War II