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Mamie Van Doren's steamy image and silky elegance was magnifiedin popular pin-ups and pocket magazines. She was a Vargas Girl inEsquire magazine in 1951. Her photos and glossies have appeared in'50s pocket magazines like Vue, Tempo and Modern Man and fanzinessuch as Picturegoer and Photoplay. In 1964, she appeared in Playboy topublicize 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt. Her portfolio includes studiopublicity stills, popular magazine spreads, bathing suit teases and nudestudies. She was also a prolific film actress. Welcome to The Films of Mamie Van Doren!

From the 1970s through 2003, author David Rothel interviewed dozens of show business personalities for his radio program and for "Guest Star" panels at film festivals where he was the host. Now Rothel has drawn from those fascinating conversations for his book Opened Time Capsules: My Vintage Conversations with Show Business Personalities. Here's your chance to eavesdrop on such personalities as Myrna Loy discussing The Thin Man film series; Vincent Price recalling those horror films he made for American-International; Lloyd Bridges talking about his classic TV series Sea Hunt; Milton Berle reminiscing about the Texaco Star Theatre; and two Tarzans, Gordon Scott and Jock Mahoney, discussing their adventures on the swinging vines. Twenty celebrities in all recollect their career highs and lows in this fascinating oral history of American popular culture covering much of the Twentieth Century. For anyone with an avid interest in the history of that bygone, golden era, David Rothel's fascinating conversations with these show business personalities will be must reading and will most certainly bring back many fond memories."You made it very nostalgic; we went clear back to the horse and buggy days."- Phyllis Diller"Thank you. Loved it!"- Vincent Price"You know more [about my career] than my memory permits me to know."- Hans Conried

Thorne Smith is a unique figure in American literature, one who thrived during prohibition creating comic novels that ridiculed the morality of the times and involved extensive drinking, nudity, frivolity, and general debauchery. A Man Named Smith: The Novels and Screen Legacy of Thorne Smith is the first book-length study of Thorne Smith's work. It provides background information on his life and early death, discusses all of his novels in detail, and also provides extensive new documentation on their screen adaptations, including Topper, Night Life of the Gods, and Turnabout. Also discussed is Thorne Smith's brief time in Hollywood at MGM in 1933, and the influence that his books have had on later films and television productions.As an added bonus, reprinted here in its entirety is the 1934 promotional monograph, Thorne Smith: His Life and Times with a Note on His Books & a Complete Bibliography.

An illustrated look at the lives and careers of the sexiest women of the 1950s. From major star to starlet, author Richard Koper shows that gentlemen still perfer blondes!

This volume is more of a portfolio in the development of Universal's The Invisible Man. It is different from the other volumes in the series in that, after attempts by many writers, Carl Laemmle Jr. was not satisfied with any of the treatments until James Whale got R.C. Sheriff to write the final shooting script. As you will see even Whale himself wrote a treatment.Many projects were announced for Boris Karloff, now Universal's top monster film star; they ranged from the supernatural Cagliostro, the classic monster film The Wolf Man to the science fiction projects A Trip to Mars and The Invisible Man.This volume is more of a portfolio in the development of Universal's The Invisible Man. It is different from the other volumes in the series in that, after attempts by many writers, Carl Laemmle Jr. was not satisfied with any of the treatments until James Whale got R.C. Sheriff to write the final shooting script. As you will see even Whale himself wrote a treatment.In 1932 many projects were announced for Boris Karloff, now Universal's top monster film star; they ranged from the supernatural Cagliostro, the classic monster film The Wolf Man to the science fiction projects A Trip to Mars and The Invisible Man.Cagliostro was transformed into The Mummy, The Wolf Man put on the shelf for 9 years Director James Whale was stalling because Universal wanted him to make a sequel to Frankenstein - but after countless rewrites by Preston Sturges, Gouveneur Morris, John Huston and a dozen other writers, R.C. Sherriff managed to capture H.G. Wells' original concept and The Invisible Man was put into production, however without Karloff who turned down the part in a salary dispute with Carl Laemmle Junior. With Claude Rains in the starring role (even though he does not appear on screen except for a few minutes at the end of the film, The Invisible Man became a huge success and one that most historians and fans think is Whale's best picture, after The Bride of Frankenstein, made two years later.

Rediscover radio as it was broadcast during the Golden Age.From shows fondly remembered to those long forgotten, this was the experience of days spent listening to the radio during the early part of the past century. This three-volume set, researched and compiled by author Keith D. Lee, features published radio listings from Los Angeles from 1929 through 1954, for the four major networks and their local Los Angeles affiliates.This is volume 3 of 3.

What Really HappenedThere were terrible crimes committed against greatly talented American citizens by overzealous and unconscionable government actions. Meet the victims inside this book. See for yourself what happened to the innocent, what they went through, how they coped with their persecution, and how they survived the aftermath with their chins up, in dignity."Congratulations Stanley Dyrector...WAVE AWARDS... Video Excellence Award presented for Community Media in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 9, 2001, The Stanley Dyrector Show: The Hollywood Blacklist..." "Dyrector has encountered countless people that help Hollywood sparkle but never get a chance to shine...Screenwriters on the Hollywood Blacklist in the 50's denied work due to their politics..." - Debra Beyer, Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2006. "...I'm not afraid to be corrected by a guest, or to tell them I love them!"...Dyrector explored the blacklisting period of Hollywood during the McCarthy era..." California Seniors Weekly (2000)About the AuthorStanley Dyrector was born in Brooklyn, New York. Beginning his career as an actor, he switched to writing, where he found much success. His TV writing credits include such popular shows as Wagon Train and Slattery's People. He and his wife, Joyce, teamed up and wrote for daytime TV soaps on ABC, as well as hour radio dramas and comedies for Sears Radio Theatre and Mutual Radio Theatre. Dyrector's 2-act Vietnam-era play, A Pelican of the Wilderness, was deemed by LA Times critic John Mahoney as "Outstanding." His award-winning interview show called The Stanley Dyrector Show can be seen in various locales and on the Internet.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I: INTERVIEWSCHAPTER 1: PARKER FENNELLY "TITUS MOODY" ON THE FRED ALLEN SHOW,WITH WIFE, CATHERINECHAPTER 2: JOAN MERRILLVOCALIST ON THE EDGAR BERGEN PROGRAMCHAPTER 3: WARD BYRON PRODUCER OF MUSICAL PROGRAMSCHAPTER 4: FRANK NELSON & VEOLA VONN FRANK, COMEDIAN ON THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM ANDVEOLA, ACTRESS ON VARIOUS PROGRAMSCHAPTER 5: HILDEGARDE CHANTEUSE, THE RALEIGH ROOMCHAPTER 6: MIRIAM WOLFF ACTRESS ON THE WITCH'S TALE AND LET'S PRETENDCHAPTER 7: DOROTHEA COLE WIDOW OF WRITER AND ACTOR ALONZO DEEN COLECHAPTER 8: ROBERT VAN DEVENTER PANELIST ON TWENTY QUESTIONSCHAPTER 9: MARY SMALL VOCALIST ON LITTLE MISS BAB-O'S SURPRISE PARTYCHAPTER 10: ANNE DEMARCO VOCALIST AND ONE OF FIVE OF THE DEMARCO SISTERSCHAPTER 11: JANET CANTOR GARI DAUGHTER OF EDDIE CANTORCHAPTER 12: PAT HOSLEY ACTRESS ON MANY PROGRAMSCHAPTER 13: SANDRA MICHAEL CREATOR AND WRITER OF AGAINST THE STORMAND LONE JOURNEYCHAPTER 14: PEGGY MOYLAN VOCALIST AND ONE OF THE MOYLAN SISTERS ON THE HORNAND HARDART CHILDREN'S HOURPART II: RESOURCE GUIDE TO THE ORAL HISTORYOF THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIOCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2: LIST OF ORAL HISTORIES

Two questions that people ask television comedy writers repeatedly are: "How do you guys ever think them up?" and "Is writing for a television show anything like it was on the old Dick Van Dyke Show?" Tales from the Script invites you inside the writing rooms and into the writers meetings for such legendary television shows as The Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, Mama's Family, Welcome Back Kotter, Three's Company, the variety shows of Bill Cosby and Tim Conway. You'll also be part of the planning, preparation, and production of almost all of the Bob Hope Specials, including his Christmas shows entertaining America's troops around the world. As a reader, you'll step onto the stage with the writing teams to accept "your" Emmy for "Outstanding writing in a Comedy-Variety Series." You'll also know what it feels like to be nominated, but have to sit in the audience and try to look gracious while another team steps up to accept the award. After reading Tales from the Script, you'll be able to answer for yourself whether it was anything like the old Dick Van Dyke Show or not. As to the second question - "How do you guys ever think them up?" - you'll discover...well...you'll probably discover, as most comedy writers already have, that nobody knows the answer to that question. Foreword by Jim Nabors!

Jess Stacy was the kindest, sweetest, most generous man to grace this Earth. It was my lucky day when I decided to buy a house in Laurel Canyon, and my husband felt the same. After years of living in Los Angeles and working the Hollywood studios, circumstances took us all over the world and we had sold our Bel Aire home. Children gone, it was just the two of us. Lookout Mountain Ave. was the street we fell in love with, and the neighbors were a bonus! Jess and his darling wife, Patricia were our closest. Jess was a regular guest (their star) in all of the best and biggest jazz festivals. Eddie and I tagged along.What a great part of our lives!We celebrated Jess' 90th birthday together and we could see that he was losing strength... but he still have that twinkle in his eyes...'til the very end... and then some.- Jean Porter Dmytryk

Ann Harding. Laurence Oliver, who starred with her in Westward Passage (1932), referred to her as an "angel." Director Henry Hathaway, who directed her and Gary Cooper in Peter Ibbetson (1935), claimed she was a "bitch." Critics hailed her as the finest actress to venture from Broadway to Hollywood. The Ann Harding story follows her from humble beginnings as the daughter of a career army office who moved around constantly, to her youth settling in New York. After spending a year attending Bryn Mawr college, she found work as a clerk and freelance script reader with a film company. Then, she made her stage debut in 1921, and eight years later, she made her film debut in an early talkie, Paris Bound, opposite Fredric March. She was the Gallant Lady (1933), an unwed mother, who gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies. Her unique, natural screen presence in Holiday (1930) earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. From 1929-1936, she reigned as cinema's "Gallant Lady." Her co-stars included Ronald Coleman, Mary Astor, Conrad Nagel, Leslie Howard, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dix, and William Powell, among many others. Ann's ethereal quality belied a passionate nature. Her affairs with three remarkably talented and very married men associated with the film industry could have easily outraged fans and quashed her career. Theater visionary-director Jasper Deeter, Ann's life-long mentor, remarked that Ann was a master at hiding her childish, stubborn temperament. Friends of Ann's daughter, Jane Otto, claim that despite Ann's highly publicized custody battles, she was a detached mother. In the 1950s and 1960s, she appeared extensively on American television in series such as The Defenders (1961), Dr. Kildare (1961), Ben Casey (1961), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961), and Burke¿s Law (1963). Scott O¿Brien¿s richly researched and illustrated biography draws heavily from Ann¿s family, friends, and personal papers. The book includes behind-the-scenes anecdotes, contemporary reviews, and synopses of Ann¿s films. He pays tribute to her career and unveils a complex portrait of one of stage and cinemäs most remarkable talents.

Never before have the infamous love letters between John and Blanche Bickerson seen the light of day, and this collection shows just why. This amazing testament to the strength of marriage celebrates the true depth of feeling the squabbling couple felt for one another. And no. It wasn't always bickering!Unearthed at last are their origins: how they met. Who they are. Their very different backgrounds. Now experience, for a change, the love shared between two people who were obviously made for one another. "I'm sure you've all heard about the Lost Honeymooners Episodes, but Ben Ohmart has done us one better. He's found the "Lost Love Letters" of John B. and Blanche P. who were later to reap radio fame and fortune as "The Battling Bickersons." With the aid of their only child, Jules, he has painstakingly recreated their historical and hysterical correspondence from a high school crush to an elopement in 1939. The results are also painful, as your sides will be aching with laughter. Fans of OTR rejoice! This is a great compliment to the previously published scripts representing their audio triumph of years past. "- Phil Proctor of The Firesign Theatre"Ben Ohmart's discovery of the Bickerson's love letters is the dysfunctional lover's equivalent of finding the Dead Sea Scrolls." - Jay Johnson, Chuck and Bob on SoapA Bottle-of-the-Month Club Selection

Gripping Chapters is much more than a history of the sound motion picture serial. Here you'll find all of the sources for sound movie serials, including comic strips, comic books, the pulps, novels and radio shows. There are chapters analyzing the cliffhanger endings of serial episodes, with information focusing on cheat cliffhanger endings, such as time expansion cheats, "survived through it cheats," and re-shot footage cheats, as well as a study of some of the cleverest and most exciting cliffhanger endings of all time. Other topics include serial sequels and series, the stars who appeared in serials, prolific contributors to serials, and stock footage and bloopers. Plus an appreciation of three very special serials: The Phantom Empire, Flash Gordon and Zorro's Black Whip.

Rediscover radio as it was broadcast during the Golden Age.From shows fondly remembered to those long forgotten, this was the experience of days spent listening to the radio during the early part of the past century. This three-volume set, researched and compiled by author Keith D. Lee, features published radio listings from Los Angeles from 1929 through 1954, for the four major networks and their local Los Angeles affiliates.This is volume 1 of 3.

Kane is going to burn in Hell and he knows it and he's raising Hell to make sure his family doesn't follow!"The fourth Kane Branson book is a great companion to the trilogy ofBranson books. 'Kane Man of War', set in Iraq, depicts the man witha love of his wife and his country, and shows that right does triumphover evil. 'Kane Man of War' also connects characters from earlierBranson escapades giving this book a great connection. Kane Bransonis a man for all seasons."- Tony Bonner

The story of the 1940 film by Will Garth The strange adventures of Dr. Cyclops, the superscientist, makes athrilling and amazing horror story. Dr. Bulfinch, noted biologist and his young and pretty assistant, Mary Phillipshad travelled thousands of miles to the Peruvian jungle to answer the call of the scientist, Alexander Thorkel.Near the place where Thorkel carried on his experiments, natives talked fearfully of black magic.But even their weird stories were less strange than the truth.For the hermit scientist had discovered how to reduce people toone sixth their natural size. And he turned Dr. Bulfinch,Phillips and theit team into midgets at grips withworld grown suddenly large and frightening.

"Power...Power to walk into the gold vaults of nations, amidst the secrets ofkings, into the Holy of Holies! Power to make multitudes run squealing in terror, at the touchof my little invisible finger!"- Claude Rains as The Invisible ManIncludes the shooting script, pressbook and an introduction byJessica Rains "Anyone who cares about classic monster movies will find a treasure trove of information, rare photos, and meticulous detail in these books. They are obviously a labor of love."- Leonard Maltin.

Eddie Cantor was a famous comedian and often a lot of fun to be with, but basically he was a serious man, a devout patriot and a champion for justice.He made sure his daughters grew up with a strong sense of responsibility and urged them to participate, not just to talk.Janet is his youngest and only living daughter, and through her we become aware of the convictions with which he endowed his family.JANET CANTOR GARI is a native New Yorker, daughter of comedian Eddie Cantor, and mother of singer-songwriter-author Brian Gari and singer-actress Amanda Abel.Having been told all her life that her mother was unwittingly as funny as her father and that she should write a book about her, Janet did just that. It's called Don't Wear Silver in the Winter, also published by BearManor Media.With the success of that book, Janet was emboldened to write a book about herself and her droll and sometimes downright absurd experiences. That title is Stop the World-I Want to Tell Someone Off!She's still in that mode with her latest publication, the political journey entitled Themes from My Father, which you now hold in your hand.

Ever wonder what the unaired episodes of situation comedies that disappeared quickly from the air were about? Curious about those comedy series such as Rewind, The Grubbs, and The Ortegas that the Fox network announced for its fall schedule but that never premiered? Did you know that stars like Bradley Cooper, Michelle Williams, and Brad Pitt made some of their earliest appearances on short-lived sitcoms?Forgotten Laughs: An Episode Guide to 150 TV Sitcoms You Probably Never Saw contains answers to these questions as well as others about quickly-canceled, never-aired, and short-run situation comedies. Published for the first time are episode descriptions for these forgotten shows. This reference book contains the most complete descriptions of sitcoms such as the quickly-canceled Doc Corkle, Co-Ed Fever, and Black Tie Affair, the never-aired Misconceptions, The Singles Table, and Snip, as well as short-run comedies like Fathers and Sons and Free Country and over 140 more. Most episode descriptions were culled from the archives of the Library of Congress, the Paley Center, and the UCLA TV script collection. In addition, Forgotten Laughs also includes insights from many producers, directors, and writers who worked on these little-known shows.