Description: (It looks much better than the picture above.) Picture, A Story About Hollywood by Lillian Ross DJ+HB Dust Jacket + Hardback This is a great gift idea to buy in any season! PLEASE BE PATIENT WHILE ALL PICTURES LOAD After checking out this item please look at my other unique silent motion picture memorabilia and Hollywood film collectibles! MULTIPLE WINS CAN BE SHIPPED TOGETHER TO $AVE SHIPPING CO$T See a gallery of pictures of my other auctions HERE Great reference book on early classic film with years of unique research between these covers. DESCRIPTION: Picture A Story About Hollywood Hardcover – January 1, 1952 by Lillian Ross (Author) •ASIN : B000NXKYWI •Publisher : Rinehardt, 1952; First Edition (January 1, 1952) •Language : English •Item Weight : 1 pounds •Hardcover : 258 pages •Dimensions : 8.5 x 5.75 x 1.1 inches •Item Weight : 1 pound, 1 ounce. Ross was a long time New Yorker writer. Here she tell the story of the making of the movie, The Red Badge of Courage. CONDITION: Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, with DJ. Black paper over boards with silver decoration and lettering. Black and white pictorial dust jacket featuring unrolled film. No date on title page. Dated 1952 on copyright page. 258 pages. Good condition. Binding is strong and square. Head and foot of spine bumped. Pages heavily toned/antiqued throughout. No other marks or writing to be found. Dust jacket has been wrapped in a protective mylar cover. Jacket is toned/antiqued. Head and foot of the spine, along with the corners, are chipped. Light shelf wear to back of the dust jacket. Overall good condition. SEE PHOTOS. It in fine shape for reading, research or study just not pristine. A fine, readable copy that would make a charming gift to a fan of any of these films and or stars. (see pix). SHIPPING: Well packed with plenty of sturdy reinforcement, Media rate approximately $3.50 and takes 1-2 weeks –or- in a flat rate Priority envelope or box 2-4 days, $9-20 (depending on weight and size). International shipping would be based on the weight and much more expensive. PAYMENTS: Please pay PayPal! All of my items are unconditionally guaranteed. E-mail me with any questions you may have. This is Larry41, wishing you great movie memories and good luck… BACKGROUND: Ever since Hollywood began, writers had been trying to get it down on paper, but none of them had succeeded except fragmentarily. With this book, Lillian Ross accomplished superbly what others could not do at all. On the surface, Miss Ross wrote a precise, marvelously detailed account of how one motion picture, “The Red Badge of courage,” was made. Beyond that, exuberant, she presented everything any sane person should want to know about how a big film studio functioned at that time, and in effect how the entire American motion picture industry functioned. And beyond that, she wrote what must be called, for lack of a more appropriate word, the definitive book on the Hollywood community – its language, its manners, its preoccupations, its ideas. Finally, she told a dramatic story about some extraordinary people, and, in a triumph of interlineation, wrote a treatise on human nature. Employing methods of her own invention, Miss Ross demonstrates that although truth is not necessarily stranger than fiction, it can at times arrange itself more artfully. Unimpressed by glamor, undismayed by barbarism, she looks on impartially and, without passing judgment, coolly sets down what she sees. She possesses a dual gift for invisibility and observation, so that not only does she see, and see profoundly, but people tend to act out their dramas in her presence. Another of her gifts is the ability to catch facts on the wing, to describe people in action, to report not on something that happened somewhere before she arrived but on something that was happening while she was there. As if that were not enough, she accomplishes all this with grace, with tact, with humor, even with gaiety, but, most importantly, with understanding. To quote S.N. Behrman, “It is the funniest tragedy I have ever read.”
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Publication Year: 1952
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Picture A Story About Hollywood
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Author: Lillian Ross
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Adventure, Art & Culture, Business, Economics & Industry, Crime & Thriller, Drama, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Film/TV Adaptation, Historical, Mystery, Photography, Romance, Science Fiction, War & Combat, Western
Original Language: English
Publisher: Rinehardt
Topic: Action Movies, American History, Art History, Avant Garde, Books, Broadway, Classic Literature, Criticism, Cult Movies, Disney, Dramas, Film, Movies
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
