The Unkindest Cuts: The Scissors and the Cinema

McClelland, Doug

Humor & Entertainment

A.S. Barnes

Numerous stills and photographs of sets, scenes, and costumes illustrate an account of the production of the popular film classic

Down the Yellow Brick Road

Random House Value Publishing

This is the 50th anniversary edition of DOWN THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD: THE MAKING OF THE WIZARD OF OZ by Doug McClelland and includes more than 100 photographs. We join Dorothy, Toto, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the rest of the characters for a wonderful and enlightening journey behind the scenes of one of the most beloved movies ever made. An ambitious and expensive undertaking, "The Wizard of Oz": was a product of Hollywood's glorious golden Age and was an instant hit. DOWN THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD is packed with photos - many very rare - attesting to the lavish splendor of this film. Author, Doug McClelland, explores the legendary collaboration of Bert Lahr, Ray Bolger, jack Haley, and the enchanting young Judy Garland, and meticulously examines the facts behind the special effects, music, and casting, as well. Now, more than 75 years after it first appeared on the big screen, "The Wizard of Oz" remains one of the most dearly loved movies of all time.

Down the Yellow Brick Road: The Making of The Wizard of OZ

"One of the Best" Susan Hayward has been described in many ways-not all of them flattering. She's been called "a woman who went through life with her fists upp...a human goddess...cold as a polar bear's foot..." and "as resilient as a trampoline." Perhaps all the descriptions are true. She is a complicated woman - and a beautiful and talented one. Born in a tenement in Brooklyn, she knew firsthand what poverty was like. And she knew she didn't like it. From Brooklyn and her Irish father she learned to fight for what she wanted, amd she wanted success. Her ambitions knew no bounds -at 12 years of age, she was the first woman newsboy ever hired by the Brooklyn Eagel. Even then, she didn't take no for an answer. She wanted to be an actress and she wanted to go to Hollywood - and to take it by storm. And the flaming-haired New Yorker did just that. From Reap the Wild Wind to My Foolish Heart to I'll Cry Tomorrow, she fought battles with studios, agents, her family and her friends. She managed to earn five nominations for the Academy Award, and wond the coveted Oscar for her performance in "I Want to Live." This is her story It is the story, too, of an era when films were both the outlet and source of dreams.

Susan Hayward: Actress of Infinite Variety,the Divine Bitch

Pinnacle Books

This edition: Hollywood on Hollywood: Tinsel Town Talks b7y McClelland is interesting. From the golden days od low budget silent films to day's multimillion-dollar special effects epics, McClelland has gathered the always insightful, often witty, sometimes biting comments and reflections of the stars, directors, writers and producers who made the world's dream factory. With over 120 black-and-white photos, many of them rare. This is an entertaining trip down memory lane.

Hollywood on Hollywood: Tinsel Town Talks

Faber and Faber

A selection of comments on film failures by those who made and starred in them. For example, Joan Crawford on "Reunion in France": "if there is an afterlife and I am to be punished for my sins, this is one of the pictures they'll make me see over and over again".

Hollywood Talks Turkey: The Screen's Greatest Flops

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Faber&Faber

StarSpeak: Hollywood on everything

The Jolson Story, a landmark Hollywood musical biography, brought has-been blackface singer Al Jolson one of show business' great comebacks, made a star of Larry Parks, the young "B" movie actor who played him, and spawned a sequel. For the first time, McClelland tells the story of how these films were made. Subsequently, in the anti-Communist climate of 1951 America, Larry Parks's career was destroyed when he admitted he had been a Communist. The story of Parks's downfall is a major section of the book, as is the graphic portrayal of that dark period in American history. With biographical profiles of all significant contributors to the Jolson sagas and many rare photos.

Blackface to Blacklist: Al Jolson, Larry Parks, and 'The Jolson Story'

Biographies & Memoirs

Scarecrow Press

Originally published in 1987 by Scarecrow Press, an illustrated history of the 1946 Hollywood biographical musical, The Jolson Story, and its star, Larry Parks. It chronicles the career of Parks, particularly the deterioration following his admission to holding Communist beliefs.

Blackface to Blacklist: Al Jolson, Larry Parks, and "the Jolson Story"

Scarecrow Pr

An authorized reference on the Hollywood actress. Contains a 20-page biography; a list of her film, television, radio, and other appearances from the 1940's to the 1980's, with full credit information and comment by the author; and a secondary bibliography of articles, mentions, and reviews. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Eleanor Parker; Woman of a Thousand Faces

Movies

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