Hollywood

Ceci et cela.

grand in-8°, 214 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, rel. cartonnage ed., jaq. ill. plast. Bel exemplaire. [CA27/0]

Best & Hillyer; Ruth Harbert; V. Hoogstraten; Stella M. Currey; B. Patterson; L. Whitney; Paul Horgan; E. Gilchrist; E. StarrMareMagnum

Good Housekeeping - The Magazine American Lives By, June 1951 - Fairdale, Kentucky

284 pages. Features: Town of the Month - Fairdale, Kentucky; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Mrs. Dee F. Bredin and her daughter; Color Ivory Soap ad features Barbara Britton; Color Prell ad features redhead; Shortness of Breath; Assignment in Hollywood; Warner's foundations and Bras ad features wild photo of ladies wearing strapless bras; Uninvited Jest - story by Harriet La Barre; Color Lux ad features Mona Freeman; Two-page color-photo Kelvinator fridge ad; Nice Jell-O ad features jellied saled; How to know a dishwasher is great; The child who is hard of hearing; American Gas Association ad features color photos of Mrs. C.E. Gibson of Chattanooga and Mrs. Kenneth Snyder of Lafayette, IN; Gorgeous color-photo Camay ad features Mrs. Jack Lawrence, the former Eileen Clarence of New York; When Children Go Along - driving article with great 'old days' photo of three kids playing inside back window of car - not wearing seat belts; Promise - story by Stella Currey; Foggy Night - story by Bob Patterson; How much should Veterinary Service cost?; The Devil's Trill - story by Paul Horgan (part 2 of 2); The Landlors - story by Eleanor Gilchrist; Women and the New War; Major Needlework coverage with beautiful color photos; Zozo ad features Curious George comic; Color Tide ad; Woodbury ad features photos of Joan Bennett; Color Hotpoint range ad; Color Duz ad; Toni ad features photos of Marilyn West, Eva Gernay, and twins Ann and Roxie Shumaker; Vintage Fire King Ovenware ad; National Silver Company ad features photo of Gregory Peck; Photo of Gloria Swanson in Jergens ad; Nice Drene shampoo ad; Color Avon ad features photo of Helen Hayes and her rep Mrs. Dorothy T. Swart of Nyack, New York; Sun-Wise Strategy; Photo of Kay Daumit in Lustre-Creme ad; Color Firestone Foamex ad features Dorothy Draper; Seth Thomas clock ad; Hot Breads; Susan Serves Ice Cream; Nice color ad for color Pyrex Ware; Nice color American Airlines ad shows lady waving farewell to her husband; Uncommone color ad for Elna sewing machines; Color-photo back cover ad for Camel cigarettes features Broadway star Lisa Kirk and the 'T-Zone'; and much, much more. Average wear with some openings along spine. A worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine

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Best & Hillyer; Ruth Harbert; M.D. Calderwood; Lois Montross; Edith Ann Cadiz; Keith Monroe; Eleanor Duvall; Martha Gellhorn; Frances Keene; Evelyn Apitz; E. StarrMareMagnum

Good Housekeeping - The Magazine American Lives By, April (Apr. 1951 - Clayton, New Mexico

338 pages. Features: Town of the Month - Clayton, New Mexico (NM); Woodbury ad features photos of Nina Spencer of New York and James Locke; Lovely Ivory Soap ad features photo of Maggi McNamara; Shingles; Assignment in Hollywood; Classy photo-ad for Warner's bras; Nice two-page color-photo Kelvinator ad; Asthma in Children; Willett furniture ad; Fantastic color ad for American Airlines shows Van Johnson and Jane Wyman of the film "Three Guys Named Mike"; Keep up with Medicine; What you should know about the AAA; Color Lux ad features Evelyn Keyes; Color Camay ad features beautiful Mrs. Charles A. Morrow, Jr., the former Barbara Sommers of Califon, NJ; Things to Forget; A Kind of Glory - story by Lois Montross; Career Girl Carolyn Workman of Cincinnati; Locksmith article; The Name - story by Eleanor Duvall; Paco's Donkey - story by Martha Gellhorn; The last six weeks of pregnancy; A Woman to be Envied - story by Evelyn Apitz; Women and the New War; Special Feature - Magic Make-up and Personal Color Chart with beautiful color photos; Lovely bridal fashion photos; Color Ivory Snow ad; Why Children quit taking lessons; Zozo ad features Curious George comic; Pond's ad features photo of The Viscountess Boyle; Raytheon TV (television) ad; Jergens ad features photos of Jane Russell; Firestone Foamex ad features color photo of Edward J. Crowley; Color Avon ad features Claudette Colbert with her rep. Mrs. Nelle Ginthner; Claudette Colbert in Woodbury ad; Toni ad features photos of Jane Cartwright, Nellie Jane Cannon and twins Ann and Roxie Shumaker; Nice Jell-O pudding ad; Tea Talk; Maytag washing machine ad; Lovely color Coke ad shows young lady in green jacket with six-pack; Chromcraft furniture color ad; Yvonne DeCarlo in La Cross ad; Colr ad for Glidden paints; and much, much more. Average wear. Please note: Large chunk 5 x 4" missing from upper corner of pages 333-338 and back cover, otherwise a worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine

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Best & Hillyer; R. Harbert; E.A. Cadiz; J. Colton; B.J. Chute; R. Franken; E.G. Patterson; H. Pratt; E. Starr; et alMareMagnum

Good Housekeeping - The Magazine America Lives By, September (Sept.) 1951 - Plymouth, Massachusetts

326 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for Kelvinator ranges inside front cover; Listerine ad shows two young men eyeing young lovely floating alone on water mattress; Town of the Month - Plymouth, Massachusetts; Nice color Camay sopa ad features beautiful Mrs. Cornelius Lorenzen, Jr., the former Barbara Jean Shaw of New Jersey; Assignment in Hollywood; Nice photo ad for Warner's 3-way-sized bras and foundations; Color Lux ad features Joan Caulfield; Two-page color-photo ad for Indian Head Cotton; Lustre-Creme ad features color photo of beautiful Ann Blyth; photo ad for Playtex baby pants; Excellent two-page color ad for Prell shampoo; Article on Eczema; Nice vintage one-page ad for Johnson & Johnson Cotton Tips (before they were rebranded as Q-Tips); Drene shampoo ad features photos of Jeanne Bal; The Woman and Her Car; Monthly Career Girl - Barbara Atkins of the Bank of Virginia in Richmond; Color Ivory Soap ad with image of Jean Christman; Why I Quit Working; The Jukebox and the Kallikaks - story by B.J. Chute; The Years Between (part 1 of 2); The Greener Grass; My Last Duchess; Woman and the New War; Lovely color-photo fashion photos; Lovely color-photo bedroom design ideas; 8 of America's foremost artists paint bedrooms they woud like; Home design photos; Orchestras in Peril; Zozo (Curious George?) page of comics; Kleenex ad features Little Lulu and Tubby; Jergens ad features photos of Evelyn Keyes, who co-stars with Jeff Chandler in movie "Smuggler's Island"; SOS pad ad features photo of Mrs. Velma Ide, Stillwater Ave., Bangor, Maine; Classy color-photo ad for Frigidaire electric ranges; Cut-Rite waxed paper ad features photo of Dione Lucas; Lovely color Avon ad features Gertrude Lawrence with her sales rep, Mrs. Mary Moran; Lovely vintage color ad for Virtue Bros. Chrome Dinette furnture; Excellent vintage color photo for Hotpoint dishwashers shows 'fairy lady' in yellow dress holding silver coffee set; 5 new miracle fibers - Dynel, Dacron, Orlon, Vicara and Chemstrand; Great color ad for Peter Pan peanut butter shows smiling girl; Photo of Virginia Mayo in Royal Crown cola ad; Daystrom Furniture color ad; Color ad for F.W. Woolworth Co.; Springmaid Fabrics ad; Fashion ideas; Charming color ad for Bambury clothing for girls; Red Goose shoe ad; Nice color-photo ad for Kate Greenaway's glamourous gingham frocks; and much, much more. Above-average external wear and soiling with openings to backstrip. A worthy copy of this charming vintage issue. Magazine

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Best & Hillyer; Madge Mahan; Val Teal; Elva Williams; Rachel MacKenzie; Lorna Slocombe; Evelyn Eaton; Alice G. Craft; Fredda D. Balling; Virginia Patterson; Emerson StarrMareMagnum

Good Housekeeping - The Magazine American Lives By, March (Mar.) 1951 - Crescent City, California

318 pages. Features: Town of the Month - Crescent City, California; Woodbury ad features wedding photos of Pat Burrage and Bob Young; Lovely color Camay ad features Mrs. Jules Alexander, the former Jean Pugsley of Rochester, NY; Color Fig Newtons ad; Assignment in Hollywood; Kidney Infection; Nice photo ad for Warner's foundations and bras; Great two-page color ad for Kelvinator ranges; Nice color Prell ad features photo of redhead; Canada tourism ad; Lux color ad features Linda Darnell; Lovely Ivory Soap color ad features Sue Jenks; Tomorrow and Tomorrow - story by Val Teal; The New Laws of Canasta; The Big Dream - story by Elva Williams; Pattern - story by Rachel MacKenzie; The case for Privacy; A New Boss Every Hour; Revenge - story by Alice G. Craft; The Meeker Sex; My Mother-In-Law Stayed Four Years; Gorgeous color and black and white fashion photos; Lovely photos of children in Easter fashions; Curious George comic in Zozo ad; Color Tide ad mentions Mrs. Jean Riche of Dallas, Texas; Why children quite taking lessons; Photo of Mrs. David Anthony Drexel in Pond's ad; Gloria Swanson photo in Jergens ad; Little Lulu in Kleenex ad; Colour Duz detergent ad; Color ad for the (green) 1951 Chevrolet; Color Avon ad features Mrs. Gary Cooper with her rep., Mrs. Billie Sussman; Satina ad features photo of Mrs. David Johnson of Studio City, California; Photos of Ginger Rogers in Jergens ad; Star-Kist ad features photo of Dan Dailey, star of movie "Call Me Mister"; Color Raytheon TV ad; Nice color ad for 1951 Dodge cars features Betty Hutton; Color ad for film "September Affair"; Many nice fashion ads; and much, much more. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this charming issue. Magazine

RareNonFiction.com · Ladysmith, CA149,95 €

Bert SternMareMagnum

Adventures

Volume fotografico dell'artista statunitense con miriadi d scatti in bianco e nero e a colori. Il volume presenta dei piccoli difetti sulla parte bassa della copertina. Gli interni sono buoni. Volume in lingua inglese.

Libreria Tarantola 1899 · Brescia, IT40,00 €

BERCKMANS, Chr.MareMagnum

Marilyn Monroe. Mythe et seduction.

in-8°, 173 pages, notes, filmogr., chansons, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire. [AB-1] À la recherche de la dernière grande star, qui fut aussi la muse de notre temps.

Pique-Puces · BELFORT, FR13,00 €

BENCHLEY, Nathaniel.MareMagnum

Vie et mort d"Humphrey Bogart. Traduit de l"americain par François Guerif et Jean-Pierre Deporte.

grand in-8°, 240 pages, nombreuses illustrations photographiques in texte, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [CA33-4]

Pique-Puces · BELFORT, FR15,00 €

Bego, MarkMareMagnum

The Best of Modern Screen

No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 224pp. With over thirty years of Hollywood gossip and images from the pages of Modern Screen Magazine.

Godley Books · Hyde, GB10,52 €

Basa, Lynn; Hempel, Toby Anne; Wheater, Kathleen; Smeltzer, Nancy; Colton, Sarah; et alMareMagnum

Fiberarts - The Magazine of Textiles, May / June 1987, Vol. 15, No. 3 - Special Dressing Up Issue / Howard Munson's Body Coverings

76 pages. Features: The return of the rag; Annie Hickman - populating an insect world; The fabric of Sha Sha Higby's imagination; Mummery - Philadelphia's happy new year; Judit Kele - the sound of the way it feels; Through the camera's eye - Howard Munson's body coverings; The fashionable pallet of Pittsburgh paints; Gilbert Adrian - creating the Hollywood dream style; Custuming for rock music videos; Kitt Miller; Claire Campbell Park; Grace Kraft; Susan Klebanoff; Barbara MacCallum; Elmyra Tidwell; Gail McDonnell; Jane Dunnewold; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine

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Barris, George; Scagnetti, JackMareMagnum

Cars of the Stars

254 pages. "Here is one of the most unique books ever published about movie and television celebrities and Hollywood film making. The more than 300 black and white photographs reveal the role of cars in movies, in television, and in the personal lives of famous stars of the personal lives of famous stars of the entertainment world. Never has such a rare and impressive collection of photographs and information on customized cars and other vehicles been published." - from dust jacket. Light wear to book. Initials atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy of this entertaining work which features dozens of photos of stars and their wonderful cars. Book

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Barrington, Ethel N.MareMagnum

LIFE-STORY OF CONVERTED DANCER. The Truth about The Stage.

48p. + Photograph Frontis. Damp stained. 12mo. Original pink wraps, front cover decorated with a female dancer and stars. Damp stained. PA PAMPH 20_5 BX2

Bookshop Family Album · Kinzers, US24,11 €

Baltake, JoeMareMagnum

The films of Jack Lemmon. Introduction by Judith Crist, with a tribute by Walter Matthau.

Tela c/sovr., cm22x28.5, pp 256; ampiamente illustrato in nero nt e ft. In Inglese.

Libreria antiquaria Dedalo M. Bosio · Torino, IT12,00 €

Baker, Russell; Ferris, Timothy; Sagan, Carl; Rubin, Stephen E.; Le Carre, John; Hollander, Anne; Browne, Malcolm W.; Penney, Goldberger, Paul; Alexandra; et alMareMagnum

The New York Times Magazine, October (Oct.) 23, 1977 - When Fat Was in Fashion

128 pages. Features: Gorgeous one-page color-photo Chanel ad featuring Catherine Deneuve; Two-page Vantage cigarette ad features Dave Ness of Seattle; Ending an End to Cosmic Loneliness - Goldstone Tracking Center radiotelescope seeks out intelligent life; Behind the Lazar Berman Legend; In England Now, by John le Carre; When Fat was in Fashion - abundant flesh was a thing of beauty to artist Peter Paul Rubens, who was born 400 years ago; To be Young, Black and Out of Work - depressing photos and stats on the 'Clockwork Orange' epidemic in the ghettos of America's cities; Great two-page color-photo ad for the Talon Channel-Zip zipper features stuntmen in action; Color-photo ad for Lakeland coats features New York Giants running back Gordon Bell; Silent Fall - Dissidents behind the iron curtain are being suppressed - with photos of folk singer Wolf Biermann, Rumanian writer Paul Goma, correspondent Rober Toth, Czech playwright Paul Kohout, Yugoslav writer Mihajlo Mihajlov, and Anatoly Shcharansky; Tennis player Marty Riessen is featured in a tennis school ad; At Home with a Skyscraper - architects Oliver Lundquist and John Stonehill build a townhouse next to a 50-story skyscraper in New York; The Maestro - Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; "Dewar's Profile" on back cover features film animation producer, director and designerJim Simon of North Hollywood. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book

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AUTORI VARI AA. VV.MareMagnum

DIZIONARIO ENCICLOPEDICO CINEMA

RIZZOLI LAROUSSE 2006 FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: VOLUME PARI AL NUOVO. 5.800 lemmi per raccontare attori, registi, filmografie complete con titoli anche in lingua originale. E poi i fantastici mestieri del cinema, i grandi sceneggiatori, le star degli effetti speciali, i geniali direttori della fotografia, i grandi compositori di musica da film. Tutto il glamour di Hollywood, l'attenzione ai grandi festival mondiali, ma anche un occhio di riguardo per il vivace cinema indipendente e per le filmografie asiatiche e africane. Un'opera tutta a colori, puntuale, accurata e aggiornata. In appendice l'elenco completo e illustrato di tutti i vincitori dell'Oscar per il miglior film, della Palma d'Oro di Cannes e del Leone d'Oro di Venezia, dalla nascita dei Premi a oggi.

Studio Paola Brancato · Napoli, IT29,00 €

Astaire, Fred:MareMagnum

Astaire Dancing. The Musical Films. John Mueller.

Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag stw. geringfügig berieben. - Englisch. - Fred Astaire (* 10. Mai 1899 in Omaha, Nebraska; † 22. Juni 1987 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; eigentlich Frederick Austerlitz) war ein US-amerikanischer Tänzer, Choreograf, Sänger und Schauspieler. Seine Karriere in Film, Fernsehen und Theater umspannte insgesamt 76 Jahre. Gemeinsam mit Ginger Rogers bildete er in zehn Tanzfilmen ein weltbekanntes Leinwandpaar. Er gilt als prägende Gestalt in der Entwicklung des Tanz- und Musicalfilms. Besonders berühmt wurde er für seine Stepptanznummern. Fred Astaire wurde vom American Film Institute auf Platz 5 in der Liste der 25 größten männlichen Filmlegenden gewählt. ... Die Filmgesellschaft RKO Pictures nahm ihn 1933 unter Vertrag und lieh ihn zunächst für den Film Dancing Lady mit Joan Crawford und Clark Gable an MGM aus. Danach drehte RKO im selben Jahr mit ihm und Ginger Rogers in Nebenrollen den Film Flying Down to Rio, der Dolores del Río groß herausstellte, ein Erfolg an der Kinokasse wurde und den eigentlichen Durchbruch in Astaires Filmkarriere darstellte. Die positive Reaktion auf Flying Down to Rio war derart groß, dass Astaire und Rogers insgesamt neun weitere Filme zusammen drehten, in denen ihre Figuren sich nach anfänglicher Abneigung ineinander verlieben und gemeinsame Tanz- und Gesangsnummern durchführen. Astaire und Rogers schafften in den 1930er-Jahren den Sprung unter die zehn kassenträchtigsten Kinostars und sind bis heute das wohl bekannteste Tanzduo der Filmgeschichte. Die beiden sangen in ihren Filmen die Hits von populären Komponisten wie George Gershwin, Irving Berlin und Cole Porter. Astaire sang stets selbst und lehnte im Gegensatz zu vielen seiner Kollegen Stimm-Doubles und Nachsynchronisierungen konsequent ab. Er nahm auch zahlreiche Schallplatten auf. Von ihren neun Astaire-Rogers-Filmen werden insbesondere Ich tanz’ mich in dein Herz hinein (1935) von Mark Sandrich und Swing Time (1936) von George Stevens herausgehoben. ... (wiki) // Filme: DANCING LADY ----- FLYING DOWN TO RIO ----- THE GAY DIVORCEE ----- ROBERTA ----- TOP HAT ----- EOLLOW THE FLEET ----- SWING TIME ----- SHALL WE DANCE ----- A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS ----- CAREFREE ----- THE STORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE ----- BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 ----- SECOND CHORUS YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH ----- HOLIDAY INN ----- YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER THE SKY'S THE LIMIT ----- ZIEGFELD FOLLIES YOLANDA AND THE THIEF ----- BLUE SKIES EASTER PARADE ----- THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY THREE LITTLE WORDS ----- LET'S DANCE ----- ROYAL WEDDING ----- THE BELLE OF NEW YORK ----- THE BAND WAGON ----- DADDY LONG LEGS ----- FUNNY FACE ----- SILK STOCKINGS ----- FINIAN'S RAINBOW. // Fred Astaire presents us with a rare phenomenon: his dance career spanned half a century, yet because his primary medium was film, most of his work has been preserved. As a profoundly welcome result, his brilliance is there to be discovered and enjoyed by generation after generation. He has been compared to Bach by George Balanchine; Merce Cunningham calls him a genius; Rudolf Nureyev considers him the greatest American dancer in history. But what exactly is it that makes Astaire's dancing so extraordinarily beautiful and timeless? What is it in his choreographic style that is so distinctive, so inimitable? To help answer these questions, John Mueller has made extensive use of recently released material from a number of Hollywood archives and of interviews-including one with Astaire himself-and has assembled from every one of Astaire's filmed dance numbers an essential sequence of frame enlargements (there are more than 2,300 in all) to accompany his thorough, lucid descriptions of what is being danced and how. In this way he anatomizes Astaire's entire filmed dance career-movie by movie (there are thirty-one chapters, one for each of his musical films), number by number, almost step by step. And he considers, as well, the films themselves-here are incisive evaluations of the scripts and the musical scores, of Astaire's partners and his supporting casts. And in an extended introduction, the author examines Astaire's career on stage and television as well as in film; his original and influential use of the movie camera; and his significant contribution to the integrated musical. He discusses Astaire's personality (so different from his on-screen persona), his working methods, the problems and successes he had with his various co-stars, and the nature of his association with such songwriters as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, and Johnny Mercer. … (Verlagstext)

Bookshop Buch Fundus · Berlin, DE80,00 €

Aprà AMareMagnum

Per non morire Hollywoodiani notizie dal cinema di fine millennio

dedica di appartenenza e leggerissimi segni del tempo

Libreria Giorni · Firenze, IT6,30 €

Anobile, Richard JosephMareMagnum

'Godfrey Daniels!' : Verbal and Visual Gems from the Short Films of W.C. Fields

First US edition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears to upper and lower edges of front. 224pp. With over 800 frame Blow-ups and dialogue from the short films of W C Fields.

Godley Books · Hyde, GB13,36 €

ANN PINCHOTMareMagnum

IL LUNGO SOGNO DI VANESSA

PERFETTO, MAI SFOGLIATO, LIEVISSIMI SEGNI DEL TEMPO ALLA SOVRACCOPERTA. Informazioni bibliografiche Titolo: Il lungo sogno di Vanessa Titolo originale dell'opera: Vanessa Collana: I jet Autore: Ann Pinchot Traduzione di: Vincenzo Ruggiero Editore: Milano: Sonzogno, 1980 Lunghezza: 390 pagine; 23 cm Soggetti: Letteratura, Narrativa Inglese, Romanzi, Passione, Ambizione, Amori, Omicidi, Novel, Lillian Gish, Vanessa Oxford, Cassandra, Sorelle, Hollywood, Star, Società dello Spettacolo, Età Vittoriana, Attrici, Cinema muto, Rosa, Fuori catalogo, Anni settanta, Libri Vintage, Rari, Anni settanta, Ottanta, Classici, d'epoca, Collezionismo

Studio bibliografico Maglione Maria Luisa · Napoli, IT14,99 €

Anger KennethMareMagnum

Hollywood Babilonia

ill., br. In questo libro, che Susan Sontag ha definito «leggendario come ciò di cui parla», Kenneth Anger si è rivelato il primo adeguato chroniqueur, il più felice e amaro favolista del mondo di Hollywood. Con tocco sicuro, da grande maniaco del cinema, Anger ci fa constatare come gli scandali, i pettegolezzi, i suicidi, gli amori, le morti sospette, le perversità, i trionfi, i delitti e gli imbrogli avessero un altro colore a Hollywood: quei fatti sordidi e scintillanti andavano infatti subito a disporsi tra le vaste costellazioni dello star system, le loro oscurità nutrivano la luce irreale dello schermo. «Più stelle che in cielo» era un motto della Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Oggi, dopo decenni in cui lo star system è stato additato come macchina di depravazione commerciale e di svendita dell'arte al dollaro, cominciamo finalmente a intenderlo alla lettera: sistema di miti, orbite di astri, varianti e ripetizioni inesauribili di Storie e Figure Esemplari. In fondo, l'unico grande sistema mitologico che il nostro tempo abbia saputo offrirci. E, guidati da Kenneth Anger, qui ci avviciniamo al mito di Hollywood con lo spirito che gli è più congeniale: quello di Laforgue, dove la devozione si congiunge al sarcasmo e la parodia non si pone alla fine dei tempi ma alla loro origine. La Babilonia di gesso che Griffith fece costruire nel 1915 per accogliervi centinaia di comparse, e poco tempo dopo era un cimitero di relitti e di erbacce, è il luogo perenne del cinema, e da questo punto - soglia dell'Epoca dei Dubbi Splendori, quando Hollywood appariva a un osservatore attendibile come Aleister Crowley abitata da «una banda di maniaci sessuali pazzi di droga» - giustamente muove il racconto di Anger. Fatty e Hearst, Chaplin e Valentino, von Stroheim e Mae West, Errol Flynn e Marlene Dietrich, Lupe Velez e Robert Mitchum, Lana Turner e Judy Garland, e tanti nomi ormai sepolti, sfilano tutti davanti a noi, fra episodi atroci e dettagli oltraggiosi, in immagini della loro vita intima che si mescoleranno per sempre a quelle delle loro opere. Perché è appunto una caratteristica del sistema di Hollywood quella di essere onnivoro: tutto ciò che riguarda i suoi personaggi gli appartiene, tutto fa parte della sua scena, le gonnelline di Shirley Temple come l'epidemia di suicidi con il Seconal. Alla fine, si ha addirittura il sospetto che le ragioni commerciali stesse siano il pretesto per una grandiosa e involontaria applicazione dell'art pour l'art. Così, anche Hollywood Babilonia fa parte del cinema di Hollywood: al termine di queste pagine, dove il testo vive dentro le immagini e le immagini dentro il testo, dove nessun particolare è superfluo e tutti hanno un loro cupo smalto, come in un von Stroheim di ambiente californiano, potremmo dire di aver visto il cinema raccontare se stesso in un grande film nero.

Maremagnum.com S.r.l. · Milano, IT15,20 €

ANGER KENNETHMareMagnum

HOLLYWOOD BABILONIA.

8° (CM. 26), BROSSURA BIANCA MUTA CON SOVR. FIGURATA B.N., PG. (18) 292 (18), NOTEVOLE REPERTORIO DI FOTO B.N. N.T. (MOLTE A PIENA PG. E ALCUNE A DOPPIA PG.), TRATTASI DELLA PRIMA PARTE, TRAD. DI I. OMBONI, OTTIMO STATO (ECCETTO ALCUNE SOTTOLINEATURE A BIRO ROSSA IN UNA PG.), TERZA EDIZIONE (LA PRIMA È DEL 1979). (C)

Archivio del XX Secolo di Antonello Pesenti · Milano, IT20,00 €

Anger KMareMagnum

Hollywood Babilonia

leggeri danni

Libreria Giorni · Firenze, IT20,00 €

Andrews, NigelMareMagnum

True Myths : The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger

No marks or inscriptions. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small enclosed tear and small crease to rear and very minor nicks to edges. 284pp. Born in a remote Austrian village, the son of a local policeman, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the world's greatest body-builder and then the world's highest-paid film actor. Between these two career rungs he became a millionaire by dealing in real estate. Since 1980 he has hobnobbed with two Presidents, married JFK's niece - all maybe good training for his present role as Governor of California, which he became after the events of this volume.

Godley Books · Hyde, GB8,25 €

Anderson, JaniceMareMagnum

Marilyn Monroe : Quote Unquote

Small inscription inside front board. No other marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, two tiny dints to rear and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little rubbing to upper edge and single tiny dint to rear. 80pp. In her own words, Marilyn Monroe's films and pictures and she talks about her life. Very well illustrated.

Godley Books · Hyde, GB5,97 €

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