It masterfully distills the major trends and movements of film history, so that the subject can be taught in one semester. Now they have been gathered together in an irresistible bouquet that is certain to delight every movie buff and provide fascinating insights for serious students of film.Ĭovering everything from Edison to Avatar, Gomery and Pafort-Overduin have written the clearest, best organized, and most user-friendly film history textbook on the market. Colorful, incredible, bitter, funny-the stories about moviemaking are as fantastic as the pictures themselves.
And Hay has selected tales of the writers, the wits, and the grand moguls, including perhaps the largest collection of Goldwynisms-both genuine and apocryphal.Īlong with the laughter, this volume recreates the conflicts that have torn the movie world, from battles over money and contracts, to discrimination, divorces, and scandals. Griffith, Hitchcock, and Eisenstein, to Kurosawa, Bergman, Visconti, Huston, Ford, and Woody Allen. Here are stories about all the legends: Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Mae West, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Sophia Loren, John Wayne, and, of course, Ronald Reagan. He takes us from the rough-and tumble early days (when one studio paid Pancho Villa $25,000 to launch his attacks only in daylight, after a film crew had set up) to the studio era (when Joan Crawford refused to cross the street on the MGM lot except in a chauffeured limousine) to the shenanigans of today's global industry. In Movie Anecdotes, Peter Hay treats us to a delightful ride through the world that has captivated audiences for almost a century, with stories that are often hilarious, sometimes tragic, and always entertaining. "In 1940, I had my choice between Hitler and Hollywood," French director Ren� Clair recalled, "and I preferred Hollywood-just a little." Always looking for an angle, always, scheming, always the scene of clashing egos, the movie industry is where they place you under contract instead of observation-and if you don't have anything nice to say, write it down. Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors.
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