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Forties Film Talk

Oral Histories of Hollywood, with 120 Lobby Posters

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Type
Stories
Subject
On Films
Keywords
1940s, Hollywood
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Publisher
McFarland & Co
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Hardcover560 pages
7 ½ x 10 ½ inches (19 x 26.5 cm)
ISBN-10
ISBN-13
0-89950-672-0
978-0-89950-672-2
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Book Presentation:
Hollywood's last golden decade in one large, magnificently illustrated compendium. Part I includes never-before-published interviews with June Allyson, Lew Ayres, Ralph Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Virginia Mayo, James Stewart, and 62 others. Part II provides short bursts of opinion from many principals regarding their movies in the 1940s: Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant, et al.

Press Reviews:
"pure gold" -- Scarlet Street

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