Hollywood Players: The Thirties - Softcover

Robert Parish, James; William T. Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500966401 ISBN 13: 9781500966409

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Part of the Encore Film Book Classics series, this is a reprint of the original text to Hollywood Players: The Thirties by James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard. To be in the movies in the 1930s was to be in the right place at the right time. It was the heyday of Hollywood glitter and glamour. This fact-filled volume of 71 stalwarts from Hollywood’s Golden Age brings it all back in vivid detail. Hollywood, even in its golden years, had only a handful of international box-office names. Right behind them came the second rank: notable, talented players but not quite big enough to often attract top-rung attention from movie historians—until Hollywood Players: The Thirties. With this major work, nearly six dozen important actors and actresses are given their proper due. This volume toasts the working stiffs of the movies. Whether white-furred beauties, cloth-capped cabbies, gun-slinging cops or bad guys, best friends, cute kids or exotic foreigners, they represented The World as Hollywood (and we) saw it. Profiled within are: Eddie Albert, Hardie Albright, Robert Armstrong, Lynn Bari, Binnie Barnes, John Beal, Louise Beavers, Ralph Bellamy, Charles Bickford, John Boles, Mary Brian, Bruce Cabot, Helen Chandler, Mae Clarke, Donald Cook, Buster Crabbe, Richard Cromwell, Constance Cummings, Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, James Dunn, Ann Dvorak, Sally Eilers, Frances Farmer, Glenda Farrell, Stepin Fetchit, Preston Foster, Skeets Gallagher, William Gargan, Wynne Gibson, Bonita Granville, Mitzi Green, Richard Greene, Phillips Holmes, Ian Hunter, Josephine Hutchinson, Kay Johnson, Allan Jones, Victor Jory, Arline Judge, Paul Kelly, Elissa Landi, Francis Lederer, Eric Linden, Margaret Lindsay, Anita Louise, Paul Lukas, David Manners, Burgess Meredith, Douglass Montgomery, Dickie Moore, Chester Morris, Wayne Morris, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Oakie, Gail Patrick, Roger Pryor, Gene Raymond, Gilbert Roland, Cesar Romero, Simone Simon, Penny Singleton, Anna Sten, Gloria Stuart, Genevieve Tobin, Lee Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Jane Withers, Anna May Wong, Fay Wray, and Jane Wyatt. In Hollywood Players: The Thirties, the authors provide a memorable panorama of 1930s Hollywood and many of its most appreciated and well-remembered performers.

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About the Author:

JAMES ROBERT PARISH, a former entertainment reporter, publicist, and book series editor, is the author of many published major biographies and reference books on the entertainment industry including Whitney Houston: We Will Always Love You; The Hollywood Book of Extravagance; It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks; The Hollywood Book of Breakups; Fiascos: Hollywood’s Iconic Flops; The Hollywood Book of Scandals; The Hollywood Book of Love; Hollywood Divas; Jet Li; Hollywood Bad Boys; The Encyclopedia of Ethnic Groups in Hollywood; The Hollywood Book of Death; Gus Van Sant; Whoopi Goldberg; Rosie O’Donnell’s Story; The Unofficial “Murder, She Wrote” Casebook; Today’s Black Hollywood; Let’s Talk! America’s Favorite TV Talk Show Hosts; Prison Pictures from Hollywood; Prostitution in Hollywood Films; The Great Cop Pictures; Ghosts and Angels in Hollywood Films; Pirates and Seafaring Swashbucklers on the Hollywood Screen; Gays and Lesbians in Mainstream Cinema; The Paramount Pretties; and The Fox Girls. Mr. Parish is a frequent oncamera interviewee on cable and network TV for documentaries on the performing arts. The author resides in Studio City, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500966401
• ISBN 13: 9781500966409
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 600