The Great Movie Stars 2

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David Shipman's bestselling studies of the movie stars make enthralling reading. This newly revised and updated edition of Volume 2 celebrates around 200 performers who rose to fame in the period after World War II and in subsequent decades.
It features amongst them Marlon Brando, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Kelly, Jane Fonda, Robert Bedford, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster, Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Marcello Mastroianni, i^obert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Steve McQueen, Sean Connery, Mel Brooks and Brigitte Bardot. But, since Hollywood has dominated the world film market to a lesser degree since the war, the author has also included familiar stars from ottier countries, such as Louis Jouvet, Anna Magnani, Anouk Aimée and Melina Mercouri.
For each artist there is a detailed career survey including the titles of all the star's films and an analysis of critical and financial success. Quotes from contemporary reviews salary figures and... Tovább

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David Shipman's bestselling studies of the movie stars make enthralling reading. This newly revised and updated edition of Volume 2 celebrates around 200 performers who rose to fame in the period after World War II and in subsequent decades.
It features amongst them Marlon Brando, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marilyn Monroe, Gene Kelly, Jane Fonda, Robert Bedford, Doris Day, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster, Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Marcello Mastroianni, i^obert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr, Steve McQueen, Sean Connery, Mel Brooks and Brigitte Bardot. But, since Hollywood has dominated the world film market to a lesser degree since the war, the author has also included familiar stars from ottier countries, such as Louis Jouvet, Anna Magnani, Anouk Aimée and Melina Mercouri.
For each artist there is a detailed career survey including the titles of all the star's films and an analysis of critical and financial success. Quotes from contemporary reviews salary figures and contract facts are woven into the biographies, as well as details of the roles that were rejected and the films that never got made.
'The reference work is topnotch and should be a must for any serious film student .The amount of material on each artist is truly amazing'
VARIETY
'The liveliest and most painstaking of cinematic surveyors' THE TIMES
'An amazing collector and dispenser of movie minutiae The real joy of The Great Movie Stars derives from Shipman's remarkably thorough homework and the often bizarre information he has mined'
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
'The best thing to happen to movies since the advent of sound'
FILM REVIEW Vissza