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Mank, Gregory W., author.
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Chandler, Helen, 1906-1965.
Laemmle, Carl, 1867-1939.
Horror films -- Production and direction -- United States.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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The very witching ti...
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The very witching time of night : dark alleys of classic horror cinema / Gregory William Mank.
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Mank, Gregory W., author.
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2014.
Subjects
Chandler, Helen, 1906-1965.
Laemmle, Carl, 1867-1939.
Horror films -- Production and direction -- United States.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780786449552 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786449551 (softcover : alk. paper)
Description:
vii, 436 pages ; 26 cm
Contents:
"A very lonely soul": a tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler -- Mad Jack unleashed: Svengali and the mad genius -- Paramount horrors: Murders in the zoo -- The mystery of Lionel Atwill: an interview with the son of the late, great horror star -- James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the riding whip: the real-life horror story of the censorship of Universal's One more river -- "Baby-scarer!" Boris karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939 -- Libel and old lace -- Production diaries: Cat people and The curse of the cat people -- Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man revisited -- Horror propaganda: Hitler's madman -- John Carradine and his "traveling circus" -- Shock! theatre, the "half-witch and "half-fairy" and Dr. Lucifer -- Junior Laemmle, horror's "crown prince" producer.
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"The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law, to a tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years"--
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Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
791.4361 Ma
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791.4361 Ma
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