Isbn: 9780151119325 - between flops: a biography of preston sturges (8 résultats)

Etat : Fair. In the decade of the 1940s, a remarkable string of vibrant and original films captivated America. Many were commercial as well as critical successes. All bore the distinctive imprint of their maker, a man as colorful as his most memorable characters. Preston Sturges set a new standard for creativity in Hollywood. He not only wrote such films as The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, he also directed them at the rate of two a year. He opened the door for an entire generation of writers-turned-directors and made some of the most popular comedies of the sound era. At his peak, he earned the third-highest salary in the country. He was an inventor, songwriter, actor, playwright, restaurateur, industrialist, and winner of an Academy Award. He even owned a production company with his temperamental equal, Howard Hughes. Yet, barely ten years after it all began, it was over. Alienated by his reckless zeal for perfection, the studios turned away from him. Unable to work, Sturges took his young family to Europe, where he struggled desperately in growing obscurity to work the old magic just one more time.Drawn from interviews, letters, and other primary source materials, this was the first full-length biography of a legendary American filmmaker, a man who made and lost two fortunes and whose genius shown brightly, as he put it, between flops.…

Etat : acceptable. The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Dust jacket has some.minor shelf wear and foxing. Brown paperboard cover is clean and square. Pages are foxed on top edge, bright and unmarked, good binding.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. used good. 2026light surface wearprice clippedfiled in basement.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Book has faint rubbing to covers, a brief mark to top textblock, faint bumps to edges, a light scuff/bump to outer top corner of front cover. otherwise in very good condition, strong binding, clean and unmarked text with bright pages; light signs of aging but an overall sturdy copy. Dust jacket has light rubbing and smudging to front and back, light bumps/scuffs to top and bottom edges. in very good condition, now in archival cover. …

hardcover. Etat : New. In shrink wrap.

Soft cover. Etat : New. Language:Chinese.Author:BEN SHE.YI MING.Binding:Soft cover.Publisher:Machine Press; 1 edition (November 1. 2008).

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