It Came from Weaver Five: Interviews with 20 Zany, Glib, and Earnest Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Traditions of...

ISBN-10: 0786401915
ISBN-13: 9780786401918
Category: Performing Arts / Film / General
Pages: 386
Language: English
Published: 1996
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Author: Tom Weaver

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Dolores Fuller loaned Ed Wood her angora sweater, but didnt fully realize he was a transvestite until Glen or Glenda was released. Tom Hennesy played the title role in Clint Eastwoods first movie--Revenge of the Creature. Go behind the scenes with 20 of the most talkative people of Hollywoods horror, science fiction and serial films of the 1930s through 1960s: Fuller, Hennesy, Junior Coghlan, Charlotte Austin, Les Baxter, John Clifford, Mara Corday, Kathleen Crowley, Michael Fox, Anne Gwynne, Linda Harrison, Michael Pate, Gil Perkins, Walter Reed, Joseph F. Robertson, Aubrey Schenck, Sam Sherman, Gloria Stuart, Gregory Walcott and Robert Wise. Also included is A Salute to Ed Wood, with illustrations by Drew Friedman. Some interviews were published in different form in fan magazines.

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