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Close-Ups
The Movie Star Book
| Author: | Danny Peary (Editor) |
|---|---|
| Paperback: | 624 pages |
| Publisher: | Workman Publishing (1978) |
| Avg. Rating: |  [ Unrated ] |
| ISBN: | 0894800442 |
| In Print? | No |
The Three Stooges receive a chapter by author Jeff Lenburg (“The Three Stooges Scrapbook”), with a brief career overview and a discussion of their important contributions to the legacy of film comedy. Additional chapters and authors in the section “The Comics” include Laurel & Hardy (by John Landis), Woody Allen (by Tony Roberts), Abbott & Costello (by Charles Barton), Buster Keaton (by Robert Bloch), and more. Also includes an appendix featuring filmographies for all the book’s subjects.
From the introduction…
“Most of us have long believed that movie stars inhabit a fantasy world; we had the idea that Hollywood was located somewhere near Heaven, and its denizens were totally unreachable in their exotic realm. Close-Ups brings these people down to earth and lets us look at them in a clear light. Through original essays, interviews, tributes, and reminiscences, the people who know movie stars best -- directors, producers, screenwriters, critics, and other stars -- unravel many of the secrets of stardom by taking us into the onscreen and offscreen lives of 140 of the cinema’s most celebrated personalities. Many of the contributors to this book know their subjects personally; many worked closely with them; some even married them. In Close-Ups, contributors explain why they find the subjects they chose to write about interesting, important and special.”
- Published in a hardcover edition in 1982 by Galahad Books
- Published in a new softbound edition in 1988 by Fireside Publ.
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