By Bernard F. Dick
Loretta younger (1913-2000) used to be an Academy Award-winning actress identified for religious Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and significantly well known tv sequence. yet that was once no longer the complete story.
Hollywood Madonna explores the whole saga of Loretta Young's specialist and private existence. She made her movie debut at age 4, turned a celeb at fifteen, and lots of awards and accolades later, made her ultimate tv motion picture at age seventy-six. This biography withholds not one of the information of her affair with Clark Gable and the daughter that robust love produced. Bernard F. Dick areas Young's affair within the right context of the time and the alternatives on hand to girls in 1935, specially a famous Catholic like younger, whose profession could were in ruins if the general public knew of her tryst. With the delivery of a daughter, who may were branded a love baby, Loretta younger reached the crossroads of disclosure and deception, deciding upon the latter course. That selection ended in an illustrious profession for her and a tortured adolescence for her daughter.
Read or Download Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (Hollywood Legends Series) PDF
Similar film books
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997
In 1897, Archibald Constable & corporation released a singular by way of the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has long past directly to turn into probably the main influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that fab novel, Carol Margaret Davison has introduced jointly this selection of essays by way of many of the world's prime students. The essays learn Stoker's unique novel and rejoice its legacy in pop culture. the continued presence of Dracula and vampire fiction and flicks presents facts that, as Davison writes, Dracula is "alive and sucking. "
"Dracula is a Gothic mandala, an enormous layout during which a number of reflections of the weather of the style are configured in dependent units of symmetries. it's also a kind of lens, bringing concentration and compression to various Gothic motifs, together with not just vampirism yet insanity, the evening, spoiled innocence, illness in nature, sacrilege, cannibalism, necrophilia, psychic projection, the succubus, the incubus, the spoil, and the tomb. amassing up and unifying all that got here sooner than it, and casting its nice shadow over all that got here and maintains to return after, its impression on twentieth-century Gothic fiction and picture is exclusive and impossible to resist. "
-from the Preface by way of Patrick McGrath
From Amazon: "For Nick James, the pleasures and virtues of this movie are combined and complicated. Its designated compositions and minimalist kind are entangled with a selected form of extravagant bombast. The complexities upload to the curiosity of this formidable movie. " Nick James is the editor of Sight and Sound journal.
The Mystical Gaze of the Cinema: The Films of Peter Weir
Interesting, enticing and provocative . .. This finely researched examine is a must-read for movie students, movie fanatics and somebody attracted to the religious dimensions of pop culture and well known leisure. Barbara Creed, Professor of reveal stories, Head of the college of tradition and conversation, collage of MelbourneA hugely unique paintings of scholarship .
The British Official Film in South-East Asia: Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong
This booklet explores the ways that the British reliable movie was once utilized in Malaya/Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong from 1945 to the Seventies. Aitken uncovers how the British respectable movie, and British respectable details enterprises, tailored to the epochal contexts of the chilly warfare and finish of empire. as well as an intensive advent, which touches on a few serious matters with regards to the post-war British reputable movie, the publication offers an account of ways the culture of film-making linked to the British documentary movie move unfold into the sector in the course of the post-war interval, and the way that culture used to be contested by means of a ‘Colonial workplace’ culture of film-making.
- Le Dictionnaire du Cinéma Québécois (Revised & Expanded 4th Edition)
- When Magoo Flew: The Rise and Fall of Animation Studio UPA
- Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses
- Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki
- Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmaker Discusses His Art
Additional resources for Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young (Hollywood Legends Series)
Example text
Next, production—and a theater circuit. FBO’s talent roster was hardly first tier, but that didn’t matter. The company specialized in B films, the kind that played in theaters throughout side-street America, not in movie palaces. But with the movie craze, 18 " , / / Ê / - t 19 star quality was not the important factor; product was all. At best, FBO could offer the public cowboy star Fred Thompson and football player Harold “Red” Grange—and later, the better known Evelyn Brent, Viola Davis, and Bob Steele, the western hero and occasional villain (The Big Sleep [1946], which may be the film for which Steele is best remembered).
But that purity was partly the result of August’s lighting, which washed over her face and complemented what lay within. There was not one false note in Loretta’s performance. To watch her wash and iron like a seasoned homemaker, preside over a kitchen stove as if it were her domain, and hear her lyrically ungrammatical speech— reminiscent of Clifford Odets’s street poetry—is to see a twenty-year-old actress in total command of her character. That she had had some contact with working women does not entirely explain her performance.
That may have been fine for Lola, but as an actress, Loretta had to breathe credibility into a script that discredited wives who succeeded while their husbands failed. Loretta was not Lola, yet she was so convincing that it seemed she would make the same sacrifice in real life. A script is a script, however unenlightened. Weekend Marriage was one of six films she made in 1932. She was expected to make Lola believable, and she did. She had a career to pursue and a mansion to maintain. They Call It Sin (1932) revealed Loretta’s burgeoning ability to balance the extremes of the conventional rich boy/poor girl plot with the excesses of lurid melodrama.