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Victor Fleming : An American Movie Master /
The full-length, definitive biography of the legendary director of Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Victor Fleming was the most sought-after director in Hollywood's golden age, renowned for his ability to make films across an astounding range of genres - westerns, earthy sexual dramas,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The real Rhett Butlre
- 1. Born in a tent
- 2. Cars, cameras, action!
- 3. The importance of shooting Doug
- 4. In Manhattan for the Great War
- 5. Filming the conquering hero: with Wilson in Europe
- 6. The importance of directoring Doug
- 7. Scaling Paramount Pictures
- 8. Courage and Clara Bow
- 9. A lost epic: The rough riders
- 10. From The way of all flesh to Abie's irish rose
- 11. Creating Gary Cooper
- 12. A woman's film and a man's adventure at Fox
- 13 Guiding Gable in Red dust
- 14. Pioneering the screwball comedy: Jean Harlow in Bombshell
- 15. Treasure Island
- 16. Introducing Henry Fonda, Farewell to Jean Harlow
- 17. Bagging game on Safari, losing The good earth
- 18. Spencer Tracy and Captains courageous
- 19. Test pilot
- 20. Salvaging The great waltz
- 21. Putting Oz into The wizard of Oz
- 22. Saving Tara and Gone with the wind
- 23. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- 24. The yearling that wasn't
- 25. Bonhomie in Bel-Air and Tortilla flat
- 26. World War II with tears: a guy named Joe
- 27. A confounding political life
- 28. One last adventure at MGM
- 29. Ingrid Bergman and Joan of Arc
- 30. Death in the desert
- Afterword: A great American movie director
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index.