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Autobiography of a Hollywood movie czar who worked with early sound and developed the controversial Production Code long before the current rating system.
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424 pages including index, history of the county and the towns in it, businesses, churches, families and organizations, lots of b/w illustrations
Draws on personal letters, journals, and interviews with family members and colleagues to capture the life and times of Frances Marion.
This author's analytical approach will be appreciated by historians as well as film buffs. He examines Hollywood's response to the rise of fascism and the beginning of the Second World War. Welky traces the shifting motivations and arguments of the film industry, politicians, and the public as they negotiated how or whether the silver screen would portray certain wartime attributes.
This study traces the history of the national committee chairmenships of the two major political parties in America. It emphasizes the national conventions and presidential campaigns, examining candidate and ideological factionalism.
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Originally published in 1913, this book forms the second part of a two-volume biographical register of Christ's College, Cambridge, covering the period 1666 to 1905. The text was begun and left almost complete by John Peile (1838-1910), an English philologist who was Master of Christ's from 1887 until his death. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Christ's College and its history.