I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies

I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies
ISBN-10
1615780327
ISBN-13
9781615780327
Series
I'll Have What She's Having
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2008-08-01
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Author
Daniel M. Kimmel

Description

In considering the greatest of these films over time, Mr. Kimmel explains why When Harry Met Sally (1989) was called the greatest movie Woody Allen never made. Or how off-screen relationships helped My Man Godfrey (William Powell and Carole Lombard were divorced but remained friends) but interfered with Sabrina (where Audrey Hepburn was carrying on an off-screen affair with co-star William Holden, though her character was supposed to be falling in love with her other co-star, Humphrey Bogart). From Trouble in Paradise (1932) to There's Something About Mary (1998), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), and Love, Actually (2003), Mr. Kimmel uncovers the idealized and often uproarious images of true love that have grown to become part of our understanding of romance. In I'll Have What She's Having he helps us meet the actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers who accomplished this trick and shows us how they pooled their talents and did it.

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