The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Showman of the Screen
Joseph E. Levine and His Revolutions in Film Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Short, immaculately dressed, and shockingly foul-mouthed, Joseph E. Levine (1905--1987) was larger than life. He rose from poverty in Boston's West End to become one of postwar Hollywood's most prolific independent promoters, distributors, and producers. Alternately respected and reviled, this master...
Mamoulian
Life on Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
An Armenian national raised in Russia, Rouben Mamoulian (1897--1987) studied in the influential Stanislavski studio, renowned as the source of the "method" acting technique. Shortly after immigrating to New York in 1926, he created a sensation with an all-black production of Porgy (1927)....
The Bennetts
An Acting Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2004
The Bennetts: An Acting Family is a chronicle of one of the royal families of stage and screen. The saga begins with Richard Bennett, a small-town Indiana roughneck who grew up to be one of the bright lights of the New York stage during the early twentieth century. In time, however, Richard's fame...
Joan Crawford
The Essential Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
" Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography explores the life and career of one of Hollywood's great dames. She was a leading film personality for more than fifty years, from her beginnings as a dancer in silent films of the 1920s, to her portrayals of working-class shop girls in the Depression...
Exposing the Third Reich
Colonel Truman Smith in Hitler's Germany
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
As World War II recedes from living memory, there remain untold stories of important behind-the-scenes operatives who provided vital support to the leaders celebrated in historical accounts. Colonel Truman Smith is one of the most compelling figures from this period, but there has never been a biography...
by Samuel A. Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
From the Academy Award-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) and Academy Award-nominated Adaptation (2002) to the cult classic Being John Malkovich (1999), screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is widely admired for his innovative, philosophically resonant films. Although he also began directing...
Mae Murray
The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Mae Murray (1885--1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to stardom as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies, moving across the country to star in her first...
The Manhattan Cocktail
A Modern Guide to the Whiskey Classic
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
Alongside other classic cocktails such as the Old Fashioned, the Mint Julep, and the Martini, the Manhattan has been a staple of the sophisticated bar scene since the late nineteenth century. Never out of style, this iconic drink has seen a renaissance in the contemporary craft cocktail movement,...
The Notorious John Morrissey
How a Bare-Knuckle Brawler Became a Congressman and Founded Saratoga Race Course
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
An Irish immigrant, a collection agent for crime bosses, a professional boxer, and a prodigious gambler, John Morrissey was -- if nothing else -- an unlikely candidate to become one of the most important figures in the history of Thoroughbred racing. As a young man, he worked as a political heavy...
Marie Dressler
The Unlikeliest Star
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
" She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of the Great Depression, she was Everywoman, and in the early 1930s her charming mixture of pathos...
The Lost One
A Life of Peter Lorre
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang's masterpiece M (1931)...
We'll Always Have the Movies
American Cinema during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
We'll Always Have the Movies explores how movies made in Hollywood during World War II were vehicles for helping Americans understand the war. Far from being simplistic, flag-waving propaganda designed to evoke emotional reactions, these films offered audiences narrative structures that formed a foundation...
I Wonder as I Wander
The Life of John Jacob Niles
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892--1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The Sopranos is recognized as the most successful cable series in the history of television. The Washington Post has called the popular series, winner of twenty-one Emmys and five Golden Globes, "the television landmark that leaves other landmarks in the dust." In every aspect -- narrative...