Autor(en)

Finler, Joel:

Verlag / Jahr

Gallery Books; NY, 1985.

Format / Einband

190 S.; zahlr. Illustr.; 29,5 cm; fadengeh., illustr. Orig.-Pappband mit illustr. OUmschlag.

Sprache

Deutsch

Gewicht

ca. 1000 g

ISBN

0831702893

EAN

9780831702892

Bestell-Nr

1166303

Bemerkungen

Ein gutes Ex. - Englisch. - ... All-Time Box-Office Hits looks at Hollywood's most commercially successful films on a decade-by-decade basis, from the 1930s right up to the present day, revealing the reasons for their staggering popularity. The authors look at: The Golden Age of the thirties which, among other hits, produced 42ndStreet (describing how Busby Berkeley created his unique dance routines) and Gone With the Wind, which won an astonishing nine Oscars Awards in 1939 and set unprecedented standards for the star-studded spectacular. The troubled forties, when Hollywood came under siege from politicians, television and declining audiences but stayed the course thanks to star performances from Abbott and Costello, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Spencer Tracy, and movie hits including The Jolson Story, The Best Years of Our Lives, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Spellbound. The surprising diversity of the fifties when some of the greatest directors made some of their most prestigious films - Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard and John Ford's The Searchers - and Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant and Elizabeth Taylor hit the movie headlines. … (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Introduction ---- The Thirties ---- Grand Hotel ---- The Kid from Spain ---- Roman Scandals ---- 42nd Street ---- She Done Him Wrong ---- I'm No Angel ---- San Francisco ---- Modern Times ---- Little Women ---- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ---- The Adventures of Robin Hood ---- Gone with the Wind ---- The Forties ---- Sergeant York ---- Mrs Miniver ---- Random Harvest ---- Cat People ---- Meet Me in St Louis ---- Going My Way ---- Spellbound ---- The Jolson Story ---- The Best Years of Our Lives ---- Duel in the Sun ---- The Fifties ---- The Robe ---- From Here to Eternity ---- Shane ---- Giant ---- How to Marry a Millionaire ---- The Seven Year Itch ---- The Ten Commandments ---- The Greatest Show on Earth ---- Around the World in 80 Days ---- Peyton Place ---- The Bridge on the River Kwai ---- South Pacific ---- Ben-Hur ---- (u.v.a.) ISBN 0831702893

Schlagworte

Hollywood; Filmgeschichte; Kino / Cinema

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