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  • John Hodiak
    David C. Tucker
    He became a star overnight as surly, sexy, usually shirtless Kovac in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat (1944). Handsome and personable, John Hodiak (1914-1955) embraced his heritage as the son of Polish-Ukrainian immigrants, making him a rare Golden Age actor whose true ethnicity (and birth name) were widely known by moviegoers. Starting in radio, Hodiak was brought to Hollywood by MGM,...
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    57,46 €

  • Rochelle Hudson
    David C. Tucker
    Rochelle Hudson’s career as an actress was planned from the start (born in 1916) by her ambitious stage mother. Given rigorous dance and musical training as a child, Hudson won her first film contract at the age of 14. A WAMPAS Baby Star in 1931, she co-starred with actors such as W.C. Fields, Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Will Rogers and Fredric March in classic films lik...
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    58,53 €

  • S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker
    David C. Tucker
    He was Red Skelton’s favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball in the art of physical comedy. In his 15-year Hollywood career, S. Sylvan Simon (1910-1951) directed and/or produced more than 40 films, with stars like Lana Turner, Abbott and Costello, and Wallace Beery. Though he loved to make moviegoers laugh, he demonstrated his versatility with murder mysteries, war stor...
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    58,56 €

  • Pine-Thomas Productions
    David C. Tucker
    Dubbed 'The Dollar Bills,' William H. Pine and William C. Thomas made 1940s Hollywood take notice with their B movies for Paramount that gave solid entertainment while cutting costs to the bone. In the 1950s, with television looming, Pine-Thomas Productions began making bigger-budget films with stars including James Cagney and Jane Wyman, and incorporating trends like 3-D. '...
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    73,25 €

  • Gale Storm
    David C. Tucker
    On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name--'Gale Storm.' One of the United States’ most beloved entertainers, she appeared in 35 films, starred in two hit television series (one was My...
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    58,70 €

  • Martha Raye
    David C. Tucker
    On stage from her childhood, Martha Raye (1916-1994) proudly embraced the role of the clown, her gift for slapstick comedy enhanced by a fine singing voice. She became a star with her first feature film, Rhythm on the Range (1936), as the zany, loudmouthed girl looking for love--or chasing it as it ran away. She won popular and critical acclaim with The Martha Raye Show (195...
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    42,92 €

  • Joan Davis
    David C Tucker / David C. Tucker
    The Emmy-nominated star of the classic 1950s sitcom I Married Joan, Joan Davis (1912-1961) was also radio’s highest paid comedienne in the 1940s--and she displayed her unique brand of knockabout comedy in more than forty films. This book provides a complete account of her career, including a filmography with critical commentary, and the most detailed episode logs ever compil...
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    51,36 €

  • Eve Arden
    David C. Tucker
    The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly chronicled from her earliest stage work in 1926 (under her given name Eunice Quedens) to her final television role in a 1987 episode of Falcon Crest. Included are detailed descriptions and critical commentaries of the actress’s 62 feature film appearances between 1929 and 1982, notably her Oscar-no...
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    43,89 €

  • Lost Laughs of ’50s and ’60s Television
    David C. Tucker
    Originally broadcast on American television between 1952 and 1969, the 30 situation comedies in this work are seldom seen today and receive only brief and often incomplete and inaccurate mentions in most reference sources. Yet these sitcoms (including Angel, The Governor and J.J., It’s a Great Life, I’m Dickens ... He’s Fenster and Wendy and Me), and the stories of the talen...
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    42,76 €

  • Shirley Booth
    David C Tucker / David C. Tucker
    An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in Come Back, Little Sheba, Shirley Booth would ultimately win every major acting award that could be bestowed on an actress. Awarded three Tony Awards, two Emmys, and a Golden Globe, Booth was described by the judges at the Cannes Film Festival as 'The World’s Best Actress.' Yet today fans know her best as the warm-he...
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    51,30 €

  • The Women Who Made Television Funny
    David C. Tucker
    Most of the bright and talented actresses who made America laugh in the 1950s are off the air today, but their pioneering Hollywood careers irrevocably changed the face of television comedy. These smart and sassy women successfully negotiated the hazards of the male-dominated workplace with class and humor, and the work they did in the 1950s is inventive still by today’s sta...
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    43,91 €

  • Empire of Liberty
    David C. Hendrickson / Robert W. Tucker
    This work examines Jefferson’s legacy for American foreign policy in the light of several critical themes which continue to be highly significant today: the struggle between isolationists and interventionists, the historic ambivalence over the nation’s role as a crusader for liberty, and the relationship between democracy and peace. Written by two distinguished scholars, this b...
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    92,56 €

  • The Fall of the First British Empire
    David C. Hendrickson / David Hendrickson / Robert W. Tucker
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    41,20 €