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  • The Vanished World of Robert Youngson
    Jim Manago
    The Vanished World of Robert Youngson examines the life of the forgotten producer and writer who got his start making short subject films. His later features revived audience and critical interest in the 1920s silent film comedians, particularly Laurel and Hardy. These compilations celebrate the world he knew as a child with a nostalgic yearning for a bygone era. Nonetheless, t...
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    28,04 €

  • Leo Gorcey’s Fractured World
    Jim Manago
    “I guess…he would want the public to remember his malaprops. He was proud of the fact that he studied words intensely so he could easily ad lib malaprops and the fact that even though he only had a high school diploma, he was well read and extremely articulate.”– Brandy Gorcey Ziesemer on her dad This is a book celebrating the overlooked contributions to filmdom made by Leo Gor...
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    27,49 €

  • Gale Gordon - From Mayor of Wistful Vista to Borrego Springs
    Jim Manago
    Gale Gordon, one of America’s favorite actors with numerous radio, television, stage, and films to his credit, possessed impeccable comic timing and a unique voice that made him one of the busiest and most productive talents of the twentieth century. Today, we remember him best as Osgood Conklin on Our Miss Brooks (1952-1956), the landlord Mr. Heckendorn on Make Room for Daddy ...
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    37,42 €

  • The Thrills Gone By - The Kay Aldridge Story
    Jim Manago
    'And they are reading sociological significance into my performances . . . I was a brave, independent woman in the forest, frisking around . . . Of course, I was blithely unaware that I was a social statement. I was just a hungry actress.' - Kay Aldridge on her Nyoka role, New York Times'. . . six beauties, but the only one who stood out was Kay Aldridge, who had a funny li...
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    30,09 €

  • Behind Sach
    Jim Manago
    'Your father is the American Chaplin.'-Groucho Marx (speaking to Gary Hall)'Huntz Hall was a complicated person: extremely generous and loving on the one hand, scarily angry and violent on the other....As I get older I understand my father much better-he was emotionally deprived as a kid, and then he was unprepared for fame and money when they arrived in his teenage years. So h...
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    32,76 €

  • Shirley Booth
    Jim Manago
    The Hazel theme music plays to an applauding audience as sixty-four year old Shirley Booth steps up to the stage for her second Emmy Award. As the character Hazel, her superb comedic and dramatic skills resulted from arduous years of perfecting her minimalist approach to acting. More than fifty years earlier, Shirley first stepped onto the stage against the wishes of her father...
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    31,20 €