Hal Wallis (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Bantam 777 Movie Tie In The covers are shiny with no corner creasing.There is a reading crease along the spine The spine is tight and square but does have some color chipping from the edges The pages look unread. They are tanning, but still crisp and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Staple Bound. (film, movies, biography, periodicals) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 7" x 10-1/4" Wraps; 32pp; Handling wear & toning to covers, covers beginning to separate from pages, short tears at fore-edge of a few pages, text unmarked, Good condition. Vintage comic book tie-in to Jerry Lewis movie "Don't Give Up the Ship." Illustrated throughout.

Blue Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Early Version Without Isbn, "Star Maker" Written As Two Words On Cover And Title Pages. 211 Pgs, Handwritten Pagination.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 24 Pp. Complete Filmography Brochure With Credits And Players For Each Film. Fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Frayed, Chipped DJ. First Edition. 240pp Illus "The Autobiography of Hall Wallis." Foreword by Katharine Hepburn. Remainder of price tag on front of DJ.

Small 4to.; cloth covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 205 pages; black and white and color photographic illustrations; Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 10/1-12/31/89, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2/17-4/22/90, and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 6/9-9/2/90; dent in dust jacket and front board else very good in a very good dust jacket. …

Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 207 pp., many illustrations 64 in color. Foreword by Earl A. Powell, III, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA October 1-December 31, 1989, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL February 17-April 22, 1990 and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT June 9-September 2, 1990. Includes appendix of three performances, chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, and acknowledgments.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First edition. Dust jacket has minor wear. Pages are clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xi, [3], 240, [2] pages. Some wear, small chips, and scuffs to dust jacket. Includes Foreword by Katharine Hepburn. Also includes 47 black and white photographs of Hal Wallis and his friends and colleagues. Harold Brent Wallis (born Aaron Blum Wolowicz; October 19, 1898 - October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley, and John Wayne. In March 1944, Wallis won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 16th Academy Awards. For his consistently high quality of motion picture production, he was twice honored with the Academy Awards' Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He was also nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, twice winning awards for Best Picture. In 1975, he received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. Charles Higham (18 February 1931 - 21 April 2012) was an English author, editor and poet. In the United States, he became known as a celebrity biographer, mainly of film stars, such as Katharine Hepburn and Errol Flynn. Close friends of another of his subjects, Orson Welles, in particular Peter Bogdanovich, were critical of Higham's interpretation of his career. A main theme of this book is Hal Wallis' ability to discover great stars, including Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Humphrey Bogart, Shirley MacLaine, Errol Flynn, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, and Jerry Lewis. A main theme of this book is Hal Wallis' hilarious battle with blue-nosed censorship, which strove to clean up Hollywood pictures in a more puritanical age. This book is filled with inside stories about the making of such classics as Casablanca, Jezebel, The Life of Emile Zola, Pasteur, The Rose Tattoo, and many others. Derived from a Kirkus review: Wallis, who produced many of the films that gave Warner Bros. its gritty, grainy character in the Thirties, sets down a straightforward account of his career. Chicago-born and transplanted to California, Wallis got to Warner Bros. in the Twenties via his savvy sister Minna; but his own pizazz got him the job of publicity director at age 20. And from there on it was a fast move--with talkies--to producer and executive-in-charge-of-production, despite efforts by Jack Warner to call the shots and take the credit. It was Wallis who insisted on the naturalism in those WB pix, who risked those great serious biographicals, who even created that superb last line for Casablanca. And when Warner jumped up to grab the Casablanca Oscar, Wallis struck out on his own--in affiliation with Paramount and other studios. Favorite colleagues? Director Michael Curtiz, Edward G. Robinson, Katharine Hepburn, Elvis Presley ("a joy to work with in every way"). Un-favorites? Cagney and Joan Fontaine, Shirley MacLaine, and Jerry Lewis. He's a tough old guy who got his hand into every aspect of movie-making, and, filled out with a selection of memoirs from the files, his annotated filmography is a valuable addition to the American-film reference shelf.…

Trade Paperback. 20 pages. B/W illustrations. Film starring Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotton. 12.25 x 15 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy. With single sheet folded to create 4 pages, 12.25 x 15 inches when folded, titled 'Ad Supplement,' with B/W illustrations.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 205 pages. Thick catalog produced in conjunction with a traveling show that started in Los Angeles and traveled to Chicago and Hartford, CT. Features essays by Hal Foster, Katherine Dieckmann and Brian Wallis. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, a chronology, list of previous exhibitions, bibliography, and a checklist. A clean near fine copy in wrappers and with laid in related ephemera from it's appearance in Chicago.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is a special Paramount Souvenir Program from a Elvis presley movie called Girls, Girls, Girls. This booklet is filled with moments from the movie as well as some pictures.

dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 205 pages. Retrospective monograph produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that started in Los Angeles and traveled to Chicago and Hartford, CT. Features essays by Hal Foster, Katherine Dieckmann and Brian Wallis. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, an illustrated chronology, list of previous exhibitions, bibliography, and a checklist. A very near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket and from the library of actress and photographer Diane Keaton with a small Bonhams sale bookplate affixed to the front pastedown. A lovely copy with an interesting provenance.…

Condition: Good. Color photo print of three people standing around. 8 x 10". Movie still of Jerry Lewis, Tony Curtis and Jacqueline Grieux gabbing. Numbered 65/298.

Condition: Good. Two color photo prints picturing Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Lise Bruner. 8 x 10 inches. Numbered 65/298.

First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with the 1970 retrospective exhibition and film screening series. Near Fine in metallic saddle-stapled wrappers.