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  • Platinum Widow
    Gregory William Mank
    Porter Down, prodigal private investigator, takes a perilously deep dive into the most notorious unsolved Hollywood mystery of all time! Award-winning author Gregory William Mank takes the reader on a wild and wicked time machine ride back to Golden Age Hollywood, and the events surrounding the shocking death of MGM producer Paul Bern, 65 days (and nights) after his marriage to...
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    37,54 €

  • Of Mice and Men
    Gregory William Mank
    Of Mice and Men is one of the most haunting, passionate films in Hollywood history. Based on the tragic novella by John Steinbeck, it was a Best Picture Oscar nominee in 1939, 'Hollywood’s Greatest Year,' and shattered taboos that film producers had never dared to challenge. Now, based on studio archives accessed for the first time in 80 years, the full story of this film is fi...
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    31,89 €

  • Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us!
    Gregory William Mank
    Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s. From the bloody censorship battles behind 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein, to the sexual controversies of 1941’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the gruesome Nazi atrocities of 1943’s Women in Bondage, this book delves into newly...
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    73,94 €

  • Frankenstein’s Witch
    Gregory William Mank
    1931. Universal Studios, Hollywood, is placing its hopes for Depression survival on Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s blasphemous saga of a man who made a Monster. During the shooting, a self-proclaimed witch, who performs a Black Mass in Malibu, sinuously infiltrates the company, seducing Colin Clive, the young, brilliant, alcoholic actor who plays Dr. Frankenstein. The result: a s...
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    31,58 €

  • Laird Cregar
    Gregory William Mank
    In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6’ 3' and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer of psychopaths and villains. Determined to break free of this typecasting, he desperately de...
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    58,91 €

  • 'One Man Crazy ... !' The Life and Death of Colin Clive; Hollywood’s Dr. Frankenstein
    Gregory W. Mank / Gregory WMank
    He immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga as well. “One Man Crazy!” The Life and Death of Colin Clive is the first full biography of this brilliant, hypersensitive actor. Adventurously-researched, sympathetic yet unsparingly revealing, and featuring over 200 illustrations, this book i...
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    23,63 €

  • Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff
    Gregory William Mank
    Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster are horror cinema icons, and the actors most deeply associated with the two roles also shared a unique friendship. Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in dozens of black-and-white horror films, and over the years managed to collaborate on and co-star in eight movies. Through dozens of interviews and extensive archival research, this great...
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    89,37 €

  • The Black Cat
    Gregory Wm. Mank / Gregory WmMank / Philip J. Riley / Philip JRiley
    In 1934, Universal Pictures released The Black Cat - the first teaming of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and the darkest, most sinister horror classic in the studio’s legendary canon. MagicImage Filmbooks takes you on a time travel trip back into the shadowy soundstage of this macabre milestone - the facts, the figures, the studio politics, the sinister inspirations, the demoni...
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    22,86 €

  • The Very Witching Time of Night
    Gregory William Mank
    The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history: (1) The harrowingly tragic life of Dracula’s leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law. (2) John Barrymore’s 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, and their rejection by the public. (3) The disastrous shooting of 1933’s Murders in the Zoo, perhaps the most...
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    59,29 €

  • Dwight Frye's Last Laugh
    Dwight D. Frye / Gregory W Mank / James T. Coughlin
    Dwight Frye's Last Laugh details the dramatic rise and fall of the actor who won immortality as the giggling Renfield of Dracula and the sadistic hunchback of Frankenstein. Authorized by Dwight's son Dwight David, the book includes detailed information of Frye's early stage work, his Broadway triumphs and his ghoulish typecasting in Hollywood—which ironically assure...
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    18,01 €

  • Hollywood's Maddest Doctors
    Gregory Mank
    Finally a biography on those titans of terror from the Golden Age of Horror Films: Lionel Atwill (Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum), Colin Clive (Frankestein) and George Zucco (The Flying Serpent). Author Gregory Mank delves into the lives and careers of three of the actors who helped shape the modern horror film. A thrilling and involving story as the reader delves into the...
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    18,01 €

  • Women in Horror Films, 1930s
    Gregory William Mank
    They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other legendary Hollywood monsters. Some were even monsters themselves, such as Elsa Lanchester as the Bride, and Gloria Holden as Dracula’s Daughter. And while evading the Strangler of the Swamp, former Miss ...
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    59,19 €

  • Women in Horror Films, 1940s
    Gregory William Mank
    They had more in common than just a scream, whether they faced Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, King Kong, the Wolf Man, or any of the other legendary Hollywood monsters. Some were even monsters themselves, such as Elsa Lanchester as the Bride, and Gloria Holden as Dracula’s Daughter. And while evading the Strangler of the Swamp, former Miss ...
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    59,16 €

  • Hollywood Cauldron
    Gregory William Mank
    Thirteen of Hollywood’s horror classics in detail: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Old Dark House(1932), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Mad Love (1935), The Black Room (1935), The Walking Dead (1936), Cat People (1942), Bluebeard (1944), The Lodger (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Hangover Square (1945) and Bedlam (1946). From origina...
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    56,63 €