This third volume in our OLD HOLLYWOOD IN COLOR series highlights those fortunate and talented individuals who reigned as Kings and Queens in both the silent and the sound film eras. This very select group transcended the demands of two very different mediums in the 1920s and 1930s. This book provides incisive profiles of Clara Bow, Edward G. Robinson, Jean Harlow, W.C. Fields, Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt, Myrna Loy, Warner Oland, and Gloria Swanson. A final chapter reviews the seeming incongruity of silent screen stars on radio. Visit this book's official website at...

This fourth volume in the Arliss Archives series reconstructs the once-acclaimed but now lost silent screen version of DISRAELI. Arliss biographer Robert M. Fells has spent over two decades collecting materials to document this first film version of George Arliss's most successful play. Additional material includes the complete souvenir theater program of 1912, a set of eight original lobby cards from the 1929 sound version of DISRAELI in restored color, and a discussion of Mr. A's 1938 live radio broadcast of the play with links to the Arliss Archives website to enable readers to hear this...

Think of swashbuckler films - loosely defined as an adventure story set in the past - and images of Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power come to mind. Yet to give credit where it's due, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. invented the genre, and John Barrymore rivaled him by starring in some of the finest swashbucklers during its first decade in the 1920s. The titles of his films are still names to conjure with: THE SEA BEAST, DON JUAN, WHEN A MAN LOVES, THE BELOVED ROGUE, and several more. And John Barrymore alone has the distinction of making swashbucklers that span the silent and sound film eras. This volume...

This unique volume explores the fragile and almost forgotten art of the glass slide. These antique artworks in miniature can command hundreds of dollars when found in mint condition, but many surviving slides are cracked, their images disfigured by Time, and shunned by many collectors. Yet through the wonders of 21st century software, these precious souvenirs of Old Hollywood can be restored to their original glory. The chapters survey glass slides from the 1910s, the 1920s, and the 1930s. In addition, there is a bonus chapter focusing on Life Masks of the stars of Old Hollywood, which serve...

Homesteaders in a small Texas settlement had a hard life but a gruff clergyman proved helpful. They knew him as "the Parson" and assumed he was an itinerant preacher, but he was something more. The challenges of frontier life in the 1870s pit men and women against the forces of mother nature, human nature, and their own spiritual struggles. The more the parson became involved in their lives, the more they came to believe that he walked with God.

Classic paintings of the Old West capture a moment, a glimpse or an impasse that suggest a backstory. What events led up to this scene? What are the characters doing? More importantly, what will they be doing next? Shooting, running, fighting? The answers lie in our imagination. The author has conjured up ten tales based on the images that are frozen in time in the paintings of Frederic S. Remington and Charles M. Russell. How the characters got there and what they did next rely on the art of storytelling in these evocative short stories.