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Opening Shots
The Unusual, Unexpected, Potentially Career-Threatening First Roles That Launched the Careers of 70 Hollywood Stars
| Author: | Damien Bona |
|---|---|
| Paperback: | 409 pages |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing (1994) |
| Avg. Rating: |  [ Unrated ] |
| ISBN: | 1563052792 |
| In Print? | No |
The Three Stooges receive a chapter, with a career overview and a discussion of their film premiere with Ted Healy, SOUP TO NUTS (1930).
From the back cover…
“It’s one of Hollywood’s favorite myths: the unknown discovered at Schwab’s who overnight becomes America’s new star. But the reality of breaking into the movies is much chancier, and for the reader, a lot more entertaining. There’s Jeff Goldblum rampaging for five minutes as Freak # 1 in DEATH WISH (1974). Bette Davis playing the good sister in BAD SISTER (1931), Kevin Costner turning up in a soft-core porn drive-in special called SIZZLE BEACH U.S.A. (1978), and Melanie Griffith as a precociously sexual Beverly Hills teen in the moody classic NIGHT MOVES (1973). In this compulsively readable book of film lore, Damien Bona chronicles the debuts of over 70 Hollywood stars -- warts and all. It’s better than popcorn.”
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