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One Good Film Deserves Another, a follow-up to author Michael B. Druxman's Make It Again, Sam (about movie remakes), is now back in print after many years. This complementary volume deals with film sequels scanning five decades: Boys Town, Topper, Brother Rat, The Little Foxes, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Mrs. Miniver, The Jolson Story, The Paleface, Broken Arrow, Cheaper by the Dozen, King Solomon's Mines, The Robe, Creature from the Black Lagoon,...

One Good Film Deserves Another, a follow-up to author Michael B. Druxman's Make It Again, Sam (about movie remakes), is now back in print after many years. This complementary volume deals with film sequels scanning five decades: Boys Town, Topper, Brother Rat, The Little Foxes, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Mrs. Miniver, The Jolson Story, The Paleface, Broken Arrow, Cheaper by the Dozen, King Solomon's Mines, The Robe, Creature from the Black Lagoon,...

From Broadwayto Hollywood MICHAEL B. DRUXMAN Combining as it does the elements of drama, comedy, music, dance, photography, and design, the film musical is a unique and favored genre, with, it would seem, almost unlimited possibilities for artistic expression and satisfying entertainment. This potential has, at times, been realized with particular success. Some of the best-loved films in motion-picture history have been musicals. And, with the...

From Broadwayto Hollywood MICHAEL B. DRUXMAN Combining as it does the elements of drama, comedy, music, dance, photography, and design, the film musical is a unique and favored genre, with, it would seem, almost unlimited possibilities for artistic expression and satisfying entertainment. This potential has, at times, been realized with particular success. Some of the best-loved films in motion-picture history have been musicals. And, with ...

To the average moviegoer, the name of Basil Rathbone conjures up an image of fiction's most famous detective - Sherlock Holmes. Certainly, of all the actors who have played the Baker Street sleuth, his interpretation was definitive.Yet, for cinema aficionados, the actor was much more than the personification of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character. He began his film career in 1921 in Innocent, which was one of several silent films in which he ap...

Fascinating! An Intimate Biography… An Insight Into A Whole Era Of Entertainment!"--The Hollywood Reporter Merv Griffin had a way with stars.They loved him, and he'd given that "big break" to countless young hopefuls who became major celebrities, including Sonny and Cher, Dick Cavett, Richard Pryor, and Tony Orlando and Dawn.Merv was one of America's best-loved TV personalities. Millions of fans were hooked on his sincerity, his intelligence a...

Fascinating! An Intimate Biography… An Insight Into A Whole Era Of Entertainment!"--The Hollywood Reporter Merv Griffin had a way with stars.They loved him, and he'd given that "big break" to countless young hopefuls who became major celebrities, including Sonny and Cher, Dick Cavett, Richard Pryor, and Tony Orlando and Dawn.Merv was one of America's best-loved TV personalities. Millions of fans were hooked on his sincerity, his intelligence a...

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Back in the 1970s and early 1980s, Michael B. Druxman authored several books and stage plays about Hollywood, the movies, and the people that made them. He also wrote a monthly column for Coronet magazine, "Yesterday at the Movies." In researching these works, Druxman interviewed dozens of performers, producers, directors, screenwriters, composers, and other film folk, who were a part of Hollywood's "Golden Era." Hollywood Snapshots: The Forgo...

While working as Roger Corman's story editor at Concorde-New Horizons Pictures, I discovered that Michael Druxman knows how to spin a good yarn. Reading his Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Hollywood has taught me how thoroughly Michael knows his way around Movieland. It's all here: his years as a publicist, a screenwriter, a playwright, and a hawker of memorabilia at autograph shows. The book's most revealing moments involve his brief encounter...

In 1888, the elusive serial killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized the Whitechapel District of London. Scotland Yard was baffled. But, that same year, Jack met his match when he crossed paths with the dreadfully evil ...really awful...Count Dracula. On July 22, 1934, notorious bank robber John Dillinger was shot "dead" by the FBI in front of Chicago's Biograph Theater. But, on September 17, 1941, in Miami Beach, Florida, John Dillinger met with ...

Druxman has taken Hollywood's most famous murder mystery and turned it into a fascinating narrative that is so evocative of 1920's Tinseltown. His fictional "hero" guides us on a factual journey that not only reveals why the case remains officially unsolved-but also identifies the killer!" - Thomas B. Sawyer, Murder, She Wrote Head Writer/Showrunner, bestselling author of Cross Purposes On the evening of February 1, 1922, silent film dire...

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker is a revisionist history of Hollywood's Golden Era and the tabloid press that covered it.Harry Pennypacker was a prolific and revered newspaper columnist, a colleague of Louella Parsons, Walter Winchell, and the other great columnists of the day.Unfortunately, nobody has ever heard of him because the papers never ran his articles.They were too hot. Too dangerous. Too lik...

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Before Oprah . . . before Ellen . . . there was Dinah Shore. She was the queen of the afternoon talk show. For over five decades, Dinah induced a state of joy into people wherever she appeared, a love affair between her and her audience. In the fickle world of popular music, Dinah had a longer run at the top than any other girl singer, and on television, she had no equal in the musical field. Arguably, she was "the first lady of television." D...

To the average moviegoer, the name of Basil Rathbone conjures up an image of fiction's most famous detective - Sherlock Holmes. Certainly, of all the actors who have played the Baker Street sleuth, his interpretation was definitive. Yet, for cinema aficionados, the actor was much more than the personification of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character. He began his film career in 1921 in Innocent, which was one of several silent films in which he a...

...Michael Druxman has done an exemplary job with this 'Films of '¬ formatted chronicle of the life of Paul Muni. Above and beyond the usual compendium of production credits, Druxman has spoken to many people associated with Muni in order to produce a rounded, intelligent picture of the man and the actor....Grade-A in all departments." - Film Fan Monthly, November 1974 "...The volume...has special reference value, particularly since Muni will ...

Michael B. Druxman may have escaped Hollywood after forty-five years, but he also survived and thrived there all those years...hardly a feat for the faint-hearted. His entertaining and amusing memoir tells us how he did it. With tenacity and talent, he went from PR agent to screenwriter to director and, along the way, rubbed shoulders with a fascinating array of characters, con-men, and artists. From the stars to the strugglers, from the sai...