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Young, Gwenda, author.
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Brown, Clarence, 1890-1987.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Clarence Brown : Hollywood's forgotten master / Gwenda Young ; foreword by Kevin Brownlow.
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Young, Gwenda, author.
Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2018]
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Brown, Clarence, 1890-1987.
Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780813175959 (hardcover : alk. paper)
081317595X (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Description:
xiii, 388 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- A Brown boy -- The master's apprentice -- Brown goes to war. . . and returns to Tourneur -- Striking out : The Light in the Dark and Don't Marry for Money -- Early years at Universal -- Brown and the Universal women -- Brown at United Artists -- Brown meets Garbo : Flesh and the Devil -- On the Trail of '98 -- An "uplifting" film : adapting The Green Hat -- Transition to sound : Wonder of Women and Navy Blues -- A year with Garbo -- Starmaker -- Devotion and deceit : Emma and Letty Lynton -- Service and passion -- Back with Crawford -- Reunited : Garbo, Brown, and Anna Karenina -- Going home : Ah Wilderness! -- Back to the formula : Wife vs. Secretary, The Gorgeous Hussy, and Love on the Run -- Conquest -- A little piece of humanity : Of Human Hearts -- Foreign affairs : Idiot's Delight and The Rains Came -- Inventions and conventions : Edison the Man, Come Live with Me, and They Met in Bombay -- Representing the war front at home and away : The Human Comedy and The White Cliffs of Dover -- Velvet and the pie : National Velvet -- A year with The Yearling -- Songs and the South : Song of Love and Intruder in the Dust -- The twilight of a career -- Slow fade-out : Brown in retirement.
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"Gwenda Young's "Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master" is an in-depth analysis of the life and films of Clarence Brown. After tracing Brown's lineage from hardworking parents and resilient grandparents, it presents his films in a way that captures and holds readers' attention. It approaches Brown the director from a unique perspective, deriving information from interviews, books, newspapers, and obituaries. Each film is described in detail, including how it was made, how the actors and crew felt about the piece, how the film influenced Brown's growth as a director, and how the film contributed to Hollywood and tied in to current issues of the day. The book discusses the political, racial, gender, and social attributes Clarence Brown saw in others and in himself across the span of five decades. Brown's place within the Golden Age of Hollywood and his collaborations with key stars are also examined"--
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