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The very witching time of night : dark alleys of classic horror cinema
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The very witching time of night : dark alleys of classic horror cinema / Gregory William Mank.
ISBN
9780786449552 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786449551 (softcover : alk. paper)
9781476615431 (ebook)
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Physical Description
vii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary
"The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law, to a tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"A very lonely soul": a tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler
Mad Jack unleashed: Svengali and the mad genius
Paramount horrors: Murders in the zoo
The mystery of Lionel Atwill: an interview with the son of the late, great horror star
James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the riding whip: the real-life horror story of the censorship of Universal's One more river
"Baby-scarer!" Boris karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939
Libel and old lace
Production diaries: Cat people and The curse of the cat people
Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man revisited
Horror propaganda: Hitler's madman
John Carradine and his "traveling circus"
Shock! theatre, the "half-witch and "half-fairy" and Dr. Lucifer
Junior Laemmle, horror's "crown prince" producer.
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