Patrick McGilligan

View Larger
Image

Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1970s And 1980s

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Backstory 4: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1970s And 1980s

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

View Larger
Image

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life In Darkness And Light

Patrick McGilligan

Synopsis:

In a career that spanned six decades and more than sixty films, Alfred Hitchcock was the dominant figure in the first century of cinema. His films -- from The 39 Steps to The Birds, from Rear Window to Vertigo, from Notorious to Psycho -- set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling élan. He was both visionary artist and consummate entertainer ... and became the most widely recognized director who ever lived.

In the decades since his death, the public image of Hitchcock has crystallized into a series of iconic images: the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the Master of Suspense. But this remarkable new biography -- the first in a quarter-century -- draws on prodigious new research to restore Hitchcock the man, in all his three-dimensional glory. Here is the comprehensive film craftsman, forever pushing forward the boundaries of his art. Here is the passionate collaborator, who cheekily referred to actors as "cattle" but invigorated the careers of Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, and Grace Kelly. Here is the insatiable provocateur, testing the limits of his audience with his cocktails of sex and violence. And here, too, is the private man: dedicated romantic, constant trickster, impotent voyeur, devoted husband, a man who sacrificed his life, again and again, for his work.

Like the best Hitchcock films, Patrick McGilligan's life of Hitchcock is a drama full of fresh revelation, graced by a central love story, dark humor, and cliff-hanging suspense: a definitive portrait of the most creative, and least understood, figure in film history.

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: Softcover - 2004

View Larger
Image

Alfred Hitchcock

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

View Larger
Image

Clint: The Life and Legend

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

View Larger
Image

Film Crazy: Interviews With Hollywood Legends

Patrick McGilligan

Synopsis:
Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed biographer of George Cukor, Robert Altman, Jack Nicholson and Fritz Lang, has interviewed many of Hollywood's biggest stars and most important directors. In Film Crazy, McGilligan shares some of his finest interviews with film luminaries from his salad days as a young journalist working the Hollywood beat. He rides the presidential campaign bus with Ronald Reagen, visits Alfred Hitchcock during the making of the Master of Suspense's last film, Family Plot, meets George Stevens at the Brown Derby, and conducts the last interview with the director of Shane and Giant. Other interview subjects captured for prosperity include rough-and-ready pioneer directors William Wellman and Raoul Walsh, likable actor Joel McCrea, actress-and the only female director of her era-Ida Lupino, French legend Rene Clair, and lowly-contract-writer-turned-studio-mogul Dore Schary. Film Crazy is a must for film students, scholars, and professionals.

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: Hardcover - 2000

View Larger
Image

Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist

Patrick McGilligan; Paul Buhle

Synopsis:
In this critically acclaimed milestone in Hollywood history, more than 30 blacklist survivors tell their deeply affecting stories. 35 photos.

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: Hardcover - 1997

View Larger
Image

Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast

Patrick McGilligan

Synopsis:
Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times and one of the Year's Best Nonfiction Books by Publishers Weekly: The definitive life of the dark genius who gave us M and Metropolis.

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: Softcover - 1997, Hardcover - 1997

View Larger
Image

Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin

Patrick McGilligan; Robert Riskin

Synopsis:
Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected six of the best Riskin scripts: Platinum Blonde (1931), American Madness (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), and Meet John Doe (1941 ). All of them were directed by Capra, and although Capra's work has been amply chronicled and celebrated, Riskin's share in the collaboration has been overlooked since his death. McGilligan provides the "backstory" for the forgotten half of the team, indispensable counterpoint to the director's self-mythologizing autobiography -- and incidentally the missing link in any study of Capra's career. Riskin's own career, although interrupted by patriotic duty and cut short by personal tragedy, produced as consistent, entertaining, thoughtful, and enduring a body of work as any Hollywood writer's. Those who know and love these vintage films will treasure these scripts. McGilligan's introduction offers new information and insights for fans, scholars, and general readers.

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

View Larger
Image

George Cukor: A Double Life

Patrick McGilligan

Synopsis:
Through 50 years and 50 films--from "Holiday, Dinner at Eight" and "The Philadelphia Story" to "Camille," "A Star Is Born" and "My Fair Lady"--George Cukor created some of Hollywood's greatest motion pictures. He was known as a "woman's director," but behind that label lurked a stigma: He was the only gay man among his peers. Patrick McGilligan's landmark life received extraordinarily attention on its original publication in 1991 as the first book to discuss Cukor's homosexuality openly.

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: Softcover - 1992

Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: Hardcover - 1989, Softcover - 1989

George Cukor: A Double Life A Biography of the Gentleman Director

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Cagney

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Cagney: The Actor As Auteur

Patrick McGilligan

More About this Book | View All Listings | View Collectible Listings

Other editions: 1975