Author: Steven Jay Schneider (Editor)
Translator: Ji-in Jeong
Publisher: Maronie Books
Hardcover | 640 pages | 210*160mm
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About This Book
Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Meryl Streep, James Dean, Anna Magnani,
Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Cary Grant, Marcello Mastroianni, Denzel
Washington, Russell Crowe, Angelina Jolie, and hundreds more
larger-than-life film stars have captured the collective imagination of
millions of movie fans around the world. Now, 501 Movie Stars pays
homage to these pop culture idols with absorbing essays that describe
each star's work, influences, and legacy. Each entry also includes the
actor's filmography to date, descriptions of productive alliances with
directors and other actors, famous cameos, stylistic innovations, and
the many other details that contributed to making these actors
unforgettable stars. Entries are listed chronologically by birth date,
with movie stills and portrait photos accompanying each star's entry.
The entries vary in length, with the most influential stars receiving up
to six pages. Collected here in succinct, information-packed
biographical sketches are the lives and careers behind the most widely
recognized faces of the past hundred years.
From Marilyn Monroe to Meryl Streep, from Charlie Chaplin to Clint
Eastwood, this book celebrates the larger-than-life movie stars who have
captured the collective imagination, inspired millions of fans across
the world, and gained immortality through their performances both on and
off the screen.
From the team behind the best-selling 1001 Movies You Must See Before
You Die, 501 Movie Stars is a comprehensive guide to the brightest
lights in cinema history. Lavishly illustrated with portraits, film
stills, and behind-the-scenes shots, and bursting with engrossing facts,
this volume is indispensable to film students, moviegoers, and lovers of
popular culture alike. Each star receives at least a full-page entry,
complete with a critical selection of Top Takes, trademarks, and all the
off-screen action.
Meet the members of the original Rat Pack, a drinking club founded by
hell-raiser and Oscar winner Humphrey Bogart. Who was the mystery woman
dressed in black who laid flowers on silent-screen icon Rudolph
Valentino's grave every year on the anniversary of his death? Read about
Elizabeth Taylor's eight marriages and River Phoenix's tragic early
demise, together with a plethora of fascinating off-screen romances that
have been fueled by on-screen chemistry. Screen legends of time gone by
rub shoulder with emerging talent, Hollywood meets Bollywood, and the
stars of blockbusters collide with theater actors.
Written by an international team of film critics, film historians, and
journalists, this is a complete biography of the last century's stars of
the silver screen. Whether you read it from cover to cover or dip into
it from time to time, 501 Move Stars will inspire, intrigue, and amuse .
. . and continue to do so for many years to come.
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