Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors - Softcover

Bogdanovich, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345404572 ISBN 13: 9780345404572

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1998

Synopsis

In this fascinating chronicle of Hollywood and the grand art of making movies, Peter Bogdanovich--director, screenwriter, actor, and critic--interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film:

Robert Aldrich  George Cukor  Allan Dwan  Howard Hawks  Alfred Hitchcock  Chuck Jones  Fritz Lang  Joseph H. Lewis  Sidney Lumet  Leo McCartey  Otto Preminger  Don Siegel  Josef von Sternberg  Frank Tashlin  Edgar G. Ulmer  Raoul Walsh

About this title

From the Publisher:

I found this a truly one-of-a-kind look at the movie business from those who really make it magic -- the movie directors. Through both narrative and interviews, this comprehensive compendium reveals both the personal and professional lives of these directors as well as their personal thoughts and feelings about their movies, the movie business and some of the actors they have worked with over the years. Contains some photos and a full listing of each director's film. This is a must have for anyone serious about the history and business of movie making.

From the Back Cover:

"A huge and valuable book . . . Bogdanovich includes everything: history, technique, gossip, minutiae."
--Roger Ebert
The New York Times Book Review

"A RARE PEEK AT THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF THE MOVIEMAKING BUSINESS . . . Bogdanovich gets Hawks to explain how he kept an insouciant Katharine Hepburn in line by threatening to 'kick [her] behind' in Bringing Up Baby. . . . Hitchcock derides the 'front office' that can't understand why Janet Leigh would be killed off so early in Psycho. . . . Siegel is furious about execs who insisted on grafting their own opening and ending onto 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. . . . Delightful . . . Eloquent."
--Entertainment Weekly

"ENLIGHTENING . . . His remarkable access, conversational method of interviewing, and status as a peer in the industry provoked [these directors] to describe in detail their motivations, methods, and madnesses in making the most memorable movies of the twentieth century."
--The Washington Post Book World

"CHOCKABLOCK WITH ODD FACTS AND FASCINATING ANECDOTES . . . The interviews . . . encompass nearly the entire span of motion picture history."
--Los Angeles Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0345404572
• ISBN 13: 9780345404572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 864