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David O. Selznick
Rudy Behlmer is the author of seven books including Inside Warner Bros. and The Complete Films of Errol Flynn. The Creation of Gone With the Wind and Other Motion-Picture Classics--as Reveale d in the Producer's Private Letters, Telegrams, ... [... more]
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Memo from David O. Selznick: The Creation of Gone With ...
From Amazon.com: As Roger Ebert observes in his smart introduction to the collected memos of the legendary producer Selznick, this is no ordinary book. Buzzed on Benzedrine, Selznick dictated his every thought to secretaries from 1916-1965, 2,000 file [... more]
CDN$40.00
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When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, ...
When Hollywood was King!: When Hollywood was King and MCA ruled through aggressive, imaginative, creative, dirty, underhanded, political ways. This is not my favorite Hollywood book as I found "Showman, the life of David O. Selznick" by David [... more]
CDN$24.95
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The Most Dangerous Game
Man is the prey: What if hunting for sport was taken to its extreme? That's the chilling premise of "The Most Dangerous Game," an adaptation of Richard Connell's story about a madman who hunts other men for sport. It's a taut, tightly-written [... more]
CDN$10.02
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Anna Karenina
Amazon.com Essential Video: Garbo won two consecutive New York Film Critics Awards for best actress in this and Camille--an altogether more satisfying selection. At 95 minutes, this handsome David O. Selznick production for MGM hasn't a prayer of doing [... more]
CDN$24.98
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Hitchcock and the Methods of Suspense
"Hitchcock was a director of meticulous contrasts": As a film lover fascinated by auteur theory, I decided that I'd overlooked film director Alfred Hitchcock for far too long, and so I approached William Hare's book, "Hitchcock and the [... more]
CDN$41.62
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A Farewell To Arms
From Amazon.com: The 1932 version of A Farewell to Arms owes as much to the shimmering house style of Paramount Pictures as it does the novel by Ernest Hemingway. If Hemingway purists can get past the romanticizing of the book, however, this film offers [... more]
CDN$39.99
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Young In Heart
Slap-Happy Screwball Family An Enchanting Ensemble: In "Young in Heart" Miss Ellen Fortune (Minnie Dupree) is a painfully lonely elderly woman, traveling on a European train. She meets the rather roguish, wholly unusual Carlton family; George- [... more]
CDN$15.98
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) (B & W)
An easy-to-miss gem: May I gently suggest that these other reviewers are missing the point. This delicate David O. Selznick production is brimming with lovely and innocent emotions that are all too out-of-fashion in today's cynical world. Each scene is [... more]
CDN$7.27
Amazon CA |
Made for Each Other
From Amazon.co.uk: Produced in a time when films were both literally and figuratively black and white, Made for Each Other was unique in its effective blending of the comedic, the dramatic and, as perhaps some would insensitively say, the melodramatic. [... more]
CDN$7.27
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The Parade's Gone By...
They Were There: For many years this book was considered the definitive, authoritative tome on silent films, and remains, today, a must read for anyone interested in this subject. Its greatest, most singular draw is the priceless information Brownlow [... more]
CDN$46.01
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Gone With the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
Amazon.com Essential Video: David O. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. In many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in [... more]
CDN$56.99
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