Performing Arts/Film/Video
FOUR PLAYS.
Author: Bergman, Hjalmar
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 1968
No. of pages: 298
Illustrations: 1 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 6”x 9”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN:
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 4046
Price: $16.50
This is a humorous and tragi-comical collection of the works of one of Sweden’s greatest dramatists. It includes Markurells of Wadköping, The Baron’s Will, Swedenhielms and Mr. Sleeman is Coming and an introductions to those diamonds of dramatic literature.
GARBO, GRETA A CINEMATIC LIGACY.
Author: Vieira, Mark
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published:
No. of pages: 288
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 252 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 12 1/2”x 9”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 81095897
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Index.
Code: 6476
Price: $49.50
With her astounding beauty and enigmatic persona, Greta Garbo is the ultimate Hollywood icon. Though many books have tried to unlock the mystique of the "Swedish Sphinx" by focusing primarily on her personal life, Greta Garbo: A Cinematic Legacy is the first to pay serious attention to what made her an icon—her 24 Hollywood films. Celebrating the centenary of her birth, the book draws extensively on interviews, letters, and newly accessible M-G-M production files to chronicle Garbo's career from her American debut in 1926 to her self-imposed retirement in 1941 at the height of her popularity. A wealth of film stills, production photographs, and portraits—many previously unpublished, all beautifully reproduced from pristine prints—combine with Mark Vieira's engrossing text to bring vividly to life the actress who inspired the critic Kenneth Tynan to declare: "What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Garbo, Greta: GREAT GARBO, THE.
Author: Payne, Robert
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 297
Illustrations: 122 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with jacket
Size: 10”x 7”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 815412231
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Index.
Code: 6399
Price: $19.50
From the first frame Greta Garbo (1905-1990) awed moviegoers with her ethereal beauty and palpable presence. Rising to stardom between two world wars, Garbo appeared at a time when she was most needed. From the frenetic twenties through the numbing dreariness of the Great Depression, she epitomized the woman for whom the world so desperately longed - a human goddess, hauntingly mortal and perfectly immortal. This heavily illustrated tour through the film career of Greta Garbo (1905–1990) offers both a biography and a discussion of her very special mystique. In his "candid, perceptive portrait of Hollywood's most mysterious star" (Publishers Weekly) from 1976, Robert Payne describes how Garbo's timeless beauty worked its magic in such films as Flesh and the Devil, Anna Christie, Mata Hari, Grand Hotel, Queen Christina, Camille, and Ninotchka. Full-page film stills and publicity photos show the transformation of working-class girl Greta Gustafsson into a Hollywood bit player and then into an icon of cinema glamour.
GRETA & CECIL.
Author: Souhami, Diana
Country: Great Britain
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 273
Illustrations: 24 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 9”x 6”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 184212160X
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 5310
Price: $24.50
A fascinating insight into the lives of the reclusive Greta Garbo and the photographer Cecil Beaton. A compelling story of how they first met in Hollywood in 1932 and what began as a flirtation eventually turned into a strange romance. For Beaton it was an obsession that fueled his ambition to photograph her, to be like her and to marry her. Greta Garbo first met society photographer Cecil Beaton in Hollywood in 1932. Fifteen years later they met again in New York and began a strange romance. For Garbo it was a teasing flirtation; for Beaton it was an obsession that fueled his ambition to photograph her, to be like her and to marry her. This book is a fascinating insight into the lives of reclusive Greta Garbo and Ceccil Beaton based on archives of diaries, memoirs and letters.
IBSEN- THE FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA.
Author: Langslet, Lars Roar
Country: Norway
Language: English
Year Published: 1995
No. of pages: 67
Illustrations: 9 Color Illustrations. 11 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 7”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 8258811479
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio.
Code: 3063
Price: $29.50
Brief biography of famous Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Known as the father of modern drama for his realistic contemporary plays in outspoken social frameworks, in which human desires for liberty come into irreconcilable conflict with inherited conventions. This is from an excellent series of small cultural guides to single aspects of Norwegian arts.