This illustrated volume documents the careers of 850 top film character actors and provides a character summary, a role-type description, a detailed filmography, and a photograph for each
This is a guide to over 850 character actors and actresses. The people covered include John le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Dora Bryan and Sam Kydd from the British studios, and...
This is a guide to over 1100 character actors and actresses. The people covered include John le Mesurier, Irene Handl, Dora Bryan and Sam Kydd from the British studios; and...
An illustrated work, covering every aspect of the movie industry. It contains information on actors, directors, classic movies, special effects, stunts, animation and movie star lifestyles. Included are 250 landmark...
Alphabetically arranged within sections treating silent, classic, and modern movie stars, this volume describes each performer's life, career, and films
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Great Movie Stars and Their Films
Rather , it aims to go Beyond The Stars , to concentrate on the character conventions and what those conventions reveal about American film and American culture . Stock Characters in American Popular Film addresses the conventions which ...
... 71 Behold My Wife, 24 Belasco, David, 120, 125, 152 Beloved Enemy, 163 The Beloved Vagabond, 13 Ben Hur, 50 Benjamin Franklin, 83, 91 Bennett, Charles, 120-123, 130, 136, 148, 202 Bennett, Joan, 49, 167 Benny, Jack, 166 Bergman, ...
BIBLIOGRAPHY BARRY MONUSH is the Associate Editor of Screen World and ... Fred Astaire : A Bio - Bibliography . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press , 1997 Blum , Daniel . Screen World . Vols . ... New York : Warner Books , 1988 .
In many cases they carried the same persona over from one film to the next, perfecting their stereotype so that audiences knew what to expect from them in a positive and affectionate way, collecting their beloved favorites over the years ...
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