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Superb biography lives up to it's classic status
Published in 1974, playwright Jerome Lawrence's biography of famed American actor/star Paul Muni has been hailed as 'The greatest theatre biography of the [20th] century', and rightly so. This exceptional book recounts Muni's whole life, from his childhood travelling with his parents Yiddish theatre company to his declining years and failing health. The vividness of Lawrence's accounts of Muni's life are due to the fact that Lawrence knew Muni well (Muni's most successful Broadway play was 'Inherit the Wind', co-authored by Lawrence) and most of the information is first hand. After muni's death in 1967 his widow Bella (with the encouragment of Lawrence) began a book on her husband's life to be entitled 'The Men I have Lived With'. But the book was never finished as Bella died in 1971 so Lawrence took what had been written and wrote his own account of Muni's life. Some of Bella's original passages have been included - most notably the story of how she met and married Muni. Lawrence also recounts the history of the Yiddish theatre, the story behind the making of the classic 'Scarface' and Muni's obsessive 4 year search for the story of Alfred Nobel. Lawrence interviewed many of theatre and Hollywood's greats for the book including Luther Adler, George Abbott, Howard Hawks and Bette Davis (a complete transcript of her interview is included in the closing chapters). A fascinating and compelling read about a man who ultimatley didn't know what else to but act. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rudolph Valentino, Mel Blanc, Paul Muni, Peter Lorre, John Huston, Janet Gaynor, Cecil B. Demille, Dee Dee Ramone, Fay Wray, Hattie Mcdaniel, Bugsy Siegel, Victor Fleming, Adolphe Menjou, Clifton Webb, Peter Finch, Louis Calhern, Tyrone Power, Florence Lawrence, Nelson Eddy, Norma Talmadge, William Desmond Taylor, Douglas Fairbanks, Marion Davies, Karl Dane, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, June Mathis, Maila Nurmi, Bebe Daniels, Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Johnny Ramone, Carl Switzer, Nelson Riddle, Art Pepper, Don Adams, B. Reeves Eason, Ann Savage, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Eleanor Powell, Adrian, Mildred Harris, Estelle Getty, Barbara La Marr, Gregg Toland, Harvey Henderson Wilcox, Gene Stratton-Porter, Edgar G. Ulmer, Constance Talmadge, Harry Cohn, Renée Adorée, Peggy Shannon, James Cruze, Agnes Ayres, Darla Hood, Kenneth Harlan, J. Peverell Marley, Virginia Rappe, Bronisław Kaper, Henry B. Walthall, Victor Young, Franz Waxman, James Gleason, Steve James, Julia Faye, Leon Schlesinger, Eva Tanguay, Gladys George, Joseph Schildkraut, Rhea Mitchell, Sylvia Ashley, Louis Wolheim, Joan Hackett, Vito Scotti, Dark Cloud, Zoltan Korda, Charles Avery, Cass Daley, Bobby Dunn, Josef Swickard, Maude Fealy, Ed Gardner, Jesse Louis Lasky, Viola Dana, William Beaudine, Iron Eyes Cody, Harrison Gray Otis, Hannah Chaplin, Edwin Carewe, Erich Zeisl, William C. Demille, Tully Marshall, Jean Wallace, Ford Sterling, Arthur Charles Miller, Molly Dodd, Tom Forman, Arthur Lake, Andrew Arbuckle, Charles B. Middleton, Natalie Talmadge, Henry Lehrman, Estelle Taylor, Harold Switzer, Elmo Lincoln, Frank Keenan, Gertrude Astor, David Horsley, Gloria Dickson, Ben Lyon, George D. Wallace, Walter Jurmann, Frank Alexander, Fred J. Balshofer, Egon Brecher, Jeanie Macpherson, David White, Alan Crosland, Charles Chapl... ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nikola Tesla, Johnny Weissmuller, Paul Muni, Artur Schnabel, Wilhelm Steinitz, Lee Strasberg, Arthur Frank Burns, Stephen Samuel Wise, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Erwin Chargaff, Alexander Altmann, Ana Cumpănaş, Joseph Goldberger, Weegee, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Matej Kocak, William F. Lukes, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler, Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Leopold Karpeles, Anthony A. Fleger, Maurice Bloomfield, Paul Czinner, Eric Seelig. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Nikola Tesla (Serbian: , born 10 July 1856 in Smiljan, Croatia - died 7 January 1943 in New York) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution. Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, Croatian Military Frontier in Austrian Empire (today's Croatia), he was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. After his demonstration of wireless communication through radio in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture, but because o...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21473 ... Read more

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Chapters: Paul Muni, Abraham Goldfaden, Jacob Pavlovich Adler, Sidney Lumet, Stella Adler, Israel Rosenberg, Sigmund Mogulesko, Boris Thomashefsky, Solomon Mikhoels, Molly Picon, Pesach Burstein, Israel Grodner, Celia Adler, Sophia Karp, Moishe Oysher, Maurice Schwartz, Sara Adler, Lillian Lux, Sonya Adler, Moishe Finkel, Benjamin Zuskin, Mike Burstyn, Isidor Goldenberg, Mina Bern, Bertha Kalich, Zypora Spaisman, Ida Kaminska, Menasha Skulnik, Keni Liptzin, Herschel Bernardi, David Kessler, Sokher Goldstein, Reizl Bozyk, Dinah Shtettin, Abba Schoengold, Solomon Stramer, Sidi Tal, Maurice Herman Finkel, Seymour Rexite, Yetta Zwerling, Jacob Spivakofsky, Joseph Green, Bessie Thomashefsky, Bess Taffel, Shimon Dzigan, Leon Liebgold, Annetta Grodner, Annetta Schwartz, Ludwig Satz, Miriam Kressyn, Israel Shumacher, Margaretta Schwartz, Rudolph Marks, Jenny Valliere, Sam Kasten. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 194. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Abraham Goldfaden Yiddish: ; (born Avrum Goldnfoden; the Romanian spelling Avram Goldfaden is common; 24 July 1840 in Starokostiantyniv- 9 January 1908 in New York) was an Ukrainian-born Jewish poet, playwright. stage director and actor in the languages Yiddish and Hebrew, author of some 40 plays. Goldfaden is considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre. In 1876 he founded in Romania what is generally credited as the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe. He was also responsible for the first Hebrew-language play performed in the United States. The Avram Goldfaden Festival of Iai, Romania, is named and held in his honour. Jacob Sternberg called him "the Prince Charming who woke up the lethargic Romanian Jewish culture". Israil Bercovici wrote that in his works "...we find points in common with what we now call 'tota...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1237473 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wolfgang Pauli, Max Reinhardt, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Muni, Steve Reich, Harry Shearer, Peter Lorre, Raymond Kurzweil, Frederick Loewe, Billy Wilder, Barbra Streisand, Otto Preminger, Hedy Lamarr, Liev Schreiber, Fred Zinnemann, Thomas Gold, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Edward Bernays, Gerty Cori, Felix Frankfurter, Raul Hilberg, Ludwig Von Mises, Leo Birinski, Bruno Bettelheim, Eric Kandel, Shelby Foote, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Victor L. Berger, Max Fleischer, Carl Djerassi, Hilda Geiringer, Richard Neutra, Erich Von Stroheim, Stephen Samuel Wise, Paul Lazarsfeld, Hans P. Kraus, Isaac Mayer Wise, Wolf Leslau, Benny Feilhaber, Hans Conried, Irene Fischer, Sidney Hook, Walter Kohn, Theodore Bikel, Karl Landsteiner, Leah Remini, Josef Von Sternberg, Robert Karplus, Ira Schnapp, Walter Bricht, Eduard Bloch, Erna Furman, Karl H. Pribram, Gotthard Deutsch, Hans Kelsen, Herman Francis Mark, John Gottman, Bernard Spitzer, Emile Zuckerkandl, Emmerich Kálmán, Maria Altmann, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, Saul K. Padover, Artur Bodanzky, Mordkhe Schaechter, Rudolf Serkin, Efraim Racker, Gerda Lerner, Gina Kaus, Boris Kodjoe, Louis V. Arco, Sue Carol, Jascha Horenstein, Felix Rohatyn, René Spitz, Stephan Smith, John Banner, Wolfe Kelman, Leo Castelli, Rose Rand, Vanessa Brown, Martin Karplus, Beate Sirota, Erich Zeisl, Oscar Straus, Bernard Rudofsky, Henry Lehrman, Franz Mittler, Salomon Bochner, Lisette Model, Josef Gerstmann, Leon Askin, Nathan H. Juran, Hans Kmoch, Walter Abish, Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, Vicki Baum, Ricardo Cortez, Edgar Zilsel, Gustav Bergmann, Robert G. Neumann, Julius Steinfeld, Oskar Morgenstern, Alfred Grünwald, Hattie Carnegie, Hugo Riesenfeld, Arthur Schneier, Rudolf Dreikurs, Fritzi Massary, Alois Kaiser, Franz Alt, Erika Morini, Richard Oswald, Maurice Bloomfield, Eric Rosenblith, Joseph Lewi, Paul Czinner, Michael Artin, Severin Eisenberger, Frank Tannenbaum, E. Randol Schoenberg, Herbert Kuhner, Hei...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=72336 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 141 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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NYC Broadway Playbill 1942 Guild Theatre 55 performances ... Read more

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Theatre playbill for the classic Lawrence and Lee dramatization of the Scopes Minkey Trial with Paul Muni, Ed Begley and Tony Randall ... Read more