The front blank end page is neatly gone. The jacket is protected in new mylar and looks better than it really is. Fully illustrated in b/w phhotos . . . etc.

Remember Radio

Lackmann, Ron

G.P. Putnam's

TV soap opera almanac (A Berkeley Medallion book)

Humor & Entertainment

Television

Berkeley Publishing Corp

American actress Mercedes McCambridge is an Academy Award-winning star of radio, television, film, and the stage, active in all four entertainment mediums between 1936 and 1991. Publicly, she was active in politics, a lecturer at several colleges, and an important activist in the fight against alcoholism; privately, she suffered from divorces, miscarriages, suicide attempts, the death of her only child, and a hard-won battle with her own alcoholism. From roles on such radio shows as Lights Out! at 19 to her starring role in Neil Simon's play Lost in Yonkers at 75, this biography both reveals her personal life and career and gives insight into an important period of show business history. Part I is a full biography from McCambridge's birth in Illinois in 1916 to her 1998 appearance at the Academy Awards. Part II gives McCambridge's radio, television, film, and theatre performances, each entry listing the name of the show, name of the character, dates, other performers, directors, and an indication of which were sustained short- or long-running roles and which single performances on a radio or television series. Research is drawn from books, periodicals, and personal interviews with McCambridge's peers.

Mercedes McCambridge: A Biography and Career Record

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

McFarland

This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film and in fiction. The lives of Martha “Calamity Jane” Canary and Belle “The Bandit Queen” Starr are first detailed; one discovers that Starr was indeed friends with notorious bank robbers of the time, including Jesse James and Cole Younger, but was herself primarily a cattle and horse thief. Wives and lovers of some of the West’s most famous outlaws are covered in the second section along with real-life female entertainers, prostitutes and gamblers. Native Americans, entrepreneurs, doctors, reformers, artists, writers, schoolteachers, and other such “respectable” women are covered in the third section.

Women of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film

Movies

First edition bound in black cloth. A VG+ copy in a Fine dust jacket. Fomer owner's name is stamped at the edges of the lower page block. Mailing label attached to the upper right corner of the front endpaper. Small blindstamp at the lower left corner of the dedication page.

Same Time. Same Station: An A-Z Guide to Radio from Jack Benny to Howard Stern

Politics & Social Sciences

Lackmann, Ronald W.

Social Sciences

FACTS ON FILE+

Let's Make a Movie

Pleasant Mount Productions

From Archie Andrews to Tom Mix, all radio characters and programs that ever stemmed from a comic book or comic strip in radio's golden age are collected here, for the first time, in an easy-to-read, A through Z book! From Ron's introduction: "The wonderful thing about Radio as it used to be in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, is that whoever or whatever you were hearing over the airwaves was your very own visual creation. It was your imagination that supplied the images of what the people, places and situations you heard looked like. The "pretty" girl was your version of what "pretty" was… and the "handsome" hero was your visualization of what constituted "handsome." During the memorable years when Radio was America’s favorite home entertainment medium, the airwaves were permeated with all sorts of programming. There were the daytime dramas of domestic stress, or soap operas as they were called because they were usually sponsored by soap detergent companies, that at-home moms and night-working dads could tune in to hear and sometimes their sick-at-home--with-a-cold kids also listened to "the soaps." There were the five-day-a-week children’s adventure serials that were heard in the late afternoon when youngsters came home from school. There were prime-time mystery programs, and comedy and variety shows, game and panel programs, and even adaptations of great works of the theater and literature, as well as radio versions of well known films, for the mind’s eye to envision."

Comic Strips & Comic Books of Radio's Golden Age (1920s - 1950s): A Biography of All Radio Shows Based on Comics

Humor

BearManor Media

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