The Star Makers

by Willoughby, Bob; Pollack, Sydney

• ISBN13: 9781858942339
• ISBN10: 1858942330
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Merrell Pub Ltd

Summary

Bob Willoughby is one of the world's foremost photojournalists of the Hollywood movie iindustry, and was the first 'outside' photographer to work on what were originally closed sets. Since the early 1950s he has documented the making of literally hundreds of Hollywood films, taking intimate portraits of famous Academy Award-winning stars and directors that reflect the drama and emotions of moviemaking that exist both on and off the screen. From such 1950s classics as George Cukor's "A Star is Born and Otto Preminger's "Benjour Tristesse, through such major films of the 1960s and 1970s as Mike Nichols's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Sydney Pollack's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They? to such films of the 1980s as John Landis's "An American Werewolf in London and Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Name of the Rose, this book is a fascinating album of Bob Willoughby's memorable shots, accompanied by his own fascinating and incisive observations of how each film was made. "The Star Makers is a stunning and engaging tribute to the most popular art form and some of the g

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Vincente Minelli	p. 8
Fred Zinnemann	p. 10
Anthony Mann	p. 12
Nicholas Ray	p. 14
Otto Preminger	p. 16
William Wellman	p. 44
Henry King	p. 46
Charles Vidor	p. 48
Edward Dmytryk	p. 50
Joshua Logan	p. 74
Rene Clement	p. 84
Martin Ritt	p. 86
Mel Ferrer	p. 94
George Stevens	p. 96
Clifford Odets	p. 98
Jean Negulesco	p. 100
Walter Lang	p. 102
Lewis Milestone	p. 104
David Miller	p. 106
William Wyler	p. 108
Henry Koster	p. 122
J. Lee Thompson	p. 124
Richard Quine	p. 126
Ronald Neame	p. 138
Norman Jewison	p. 150
George Cukor	p. 152
Billy Wilder	p. 176
Alfred Hitchcock	p. 178
Jack Smight	p. 194
Blake Edwards	p. 196
Mike Nichols	p. 218
Clive Donner	p. 248
Stanley Donen	p. 250
Gene Kelly	p. 251
Richard Lester	p. 252
Richard Fleischer	p. 268
Roman Polanski	p. 270
Anthony Harvey	p. 286
Herbert Ross	p. 304
Robert Aldrich	p. 306
Sydney Pollack	p. 308
Orson Welles	p. 320
Anatole Litvak	p. 322
Alan J. Pakula	p. 324
David Lean	p. 326
Peter Yates	p. 338
John Frankenheimer	p. 340
Mark Rydell	p. 342
Sam Peckinpah	p. 344
John Landis	p. 346
Jean-Jacques Annaud	p. 348
Index	p. 350
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