Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

2009-01-09 Performing Arts

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Release : 2009-01-09
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Abbott and Costello on the Home Front written by Scott Allen Nollen. This book was released on 2009-01-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. The films covered include the service comedies Buck Privates, In the Navy, and Keep ’Em Flying; more mainstream comic relief films such as Pardon My Sarong and Who Done It?; and post-war experiments such as Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives. More than 120 stills and lobby cards from the author’s personal collection illustrate the text, including many showing outtakes or deleted scenes.

Abbott and Costello on the Home Front

2009-06-08 Performing Arts

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Release : 2009-06-08
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 257/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Abbott and Costello on the Home Front written by Scott Allen Nollen. This book was released on 2009-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As two of the most popular entertainers of the mid-century film industry, comic greats Bud Abbott and Lou Costello offered an essential balm to the American public following the sorrows of the Great Depression and during the trauma of World War II. This is the first book to focus in detail on the immensely popular wartime films of Abbott and Costello, discussing the production, content, and reception of 18 films within the context of wartime events on the home front and abroad. The films covered include the service comedies Buck Privates, In the Navy, and Keep 'Em Flying; more mainstream comic relief films such as Pardon My Sarong and Who Done It?; and post-war experiments such as Little Giant and The Time of Their Lives. More than 120 stills and lobby cards from the author's personal collection illustrate the text, including many showing outtakes or deleted scenes.

Norman Lear

2024-11-12 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Tripp Whetsell
Release : 2024-11-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book Norman Lear written by Tripp Whetsell. This book was released on 2024-11-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth telling of the Norman Lear's seven-decade career that Publishers Weekly calls a "lovingly detailed portrait" and "a fitting tribute to a consequential figure in television history.” Beginning in the 1970s, writer and producer Norman Lear forever altered the television landscape with such groundbreaking situation comedies as All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time. For over half a century his body of work boldly tackled race, class, sexuality, politics, and religion—topics previously considered too taboo to be the subject of comedy on the small screen. Norman Lear: His Life and Times is the unforgettable story of an extraordinary seven-decade career. Veteran author and entertainment journalist Tripp Whetsell offers an intimate portrait of Lear that is the product of years of research and numerous interviews. Whetsell shows how Lear created the gold standard for television comedies, producing shows that were the first to give underrepresented members of society an authentic prime-time voice, while encouraging audiences to confront their own humanity and shortcomings. In the process, he explores one of television’s most transformative periods, detailing Lear’s legacy as one of its chief architects and catalysts. This affectionate and candid tribute combines show-business history with an illuminating consideration of the inner workings of “the man in the white hat”—a figure who singlehandedly redefined an entire medium by reflecting the world around him.

World War II for Kids

2005-11-01 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Richard Panchyk
Release : 2005-11-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 271/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book World War II for Kids written by Richard Panchyk. This book was released on 2005-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. Much more than an ordinary history book, it is filled with excerpts from actual wartime letters written to and by American and German troops, personal anecdotes from people who lived through the war in the United States, Germany, Britain, Russia, Hungary, and Japan, and gripping stories from Holocaust survivors—all add a humanizing global perspective to the war. This collection of 21 activities shows kids how it felt to live through this monumental period in history. They will play a rationing game or try the butter extender recipe to understand the everyday sacrifices made by wartime families. They will try their hands at military strategy in coastal defense, break a code, and play a latitude and longitude tracking game. Whether growing a victory garden or staging an adventure radio program, kids will appreciate the hardships and joys experienced on the home front.

The President’s Ladies

2014-03-14 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Bernard F. Dick
Release : 2014-03-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 802/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The President’s Ladies written by Bernard F. Dick. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating story of Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, and Nancy Davis

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