W.S. Van Dyke's Journal
White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928) and other Van Dyke on Van Dyke
Edited by Rudy Behlmer
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The colorful W.S. "Woody" Van Dyke directed many of MGM's most outstanding films during the 1920s and 1930s including: The Thin Man; Rose-Marie; Tarzan, the Ape Man; and White Shadows in the South Seas. W.S. Van Dyke's Journal assembles previously unavailable source material and is illustrated with rare behind-the-scenes photographs covering all phases of Van Dyke's career. It contains Van Dyke's recently discovered manuscript journal written as he spent four months in Tahiti during 1927-28 filming White Shadows in the South Seas. The volume also includes magazine articles on Van Dyke and brief anecdotes by his associates, including Myrna Loy, Hunt Stromberg, and Ingrid Bergman. With cast and credit list for White Shadows in the South Seas, selected bibliography and filmography.
About the Author:
Writer-Producer-Director Rudy Behlmer has been involved with film and television for over forty years. He is the author of Inside Warner Bros., Memo From David O. Selznick, and Behind-the-Scenes.
Press Reviews:
"Behlmer has done an excellent job of editing the journal, giving it a solid foundation of introductory data and framing it with a fascinating assortment of supporting material...The cumulative effect is astounding: Van Dyke revealed to us as few men ever are." ―Classic Images
"In addition to providing a fascinating look behind the scenes of the expedition and clues to the thinking of a hard-driving director, there are also revealing notes about both Tarzan, the Ape Man and The Thin Man." ―American Cinematographer
"To learn what Van Dyke went through tells us more about the film-making process than whole libraries of theoretical volumes. This is a rediscovered treasure, and we should be grateful both to Rudy Behlmer and to Scarecrow." ―Kevin Brownlow, Photoplay Productions
"Behlmer has given us a clearer picture than we have yet seen of one of the most competent, versatile and paradoxical directors of Hollywood's Golden Age...." ―Dga Quarterly
"The volume is well illustrated with stills spanning the entirety of the director's career, many of them amusing and heretofore unpublished production shots." ―Past Times
"This book is a little gem, shedding much light on the personality of a director who until now has been an enigma despite the popularity of his films..." ―The Nostalgia Entertainment Newsletter
"In addition to providing a fascinating look behind the scenes of the expedition and clues to the thinking of a hard-driving director, there are also revealing notes about both Tarzan, the Ape Man and The Thin Man." ―American Cinematographer
"...the illustrations are real rarities." ―Movie Collector's World
See the publisher website: Scarecrow Press
See the complete filmography of W.S. Van Dyke on the website: IMDB ...
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