SIGNED Peter Bogdanovich WHO THE DEVIL MADE IT Hitchcock Preminger Hawks Walsh

Description: Title: Who The Devil Made it Conversations With... Author: Peter Bogdanovich (SIGNED by author) Publisher: Knopf (1997) Description:Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) has conversations with Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef Von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh. if you are a fan of classic film and watch TCM Turner Classic Movies then this is a must own book as Bogdanovich interviews many of the great directors. He started out as a writer and had access to many of the classic Hollywood directors before Bogdanovich himself became a director. Plus this copy is signed by Bogdanovich on the front free endpaper. A rare signed copy of this book will be a terrific addition to your library. From The DJ flapPeter Bogdanovich director, screenwriter, actor and critic, interviews sixteen legendary directors of the first hundred years of film—from Allan Dwan and Raoul Walsh to Leo McCarey, Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Lumet. The conversations brought together in this book give us a history of the movies. They are the stories of pioneers who came to the picture business from many worlds. Some were adventurers (running away to sea; joining Pancho Villa) before finding their place in the movies. Some were football stars, some electrical engineers, lawyers, auto mechanics, airplane designers. Some were trained in silent movies (Dwan, Walsh, Lang, von Sternberg, Hitchcock), Many of them were men who lived to the hilt and brought to their work the residue of their earlier experiences. Here talking with Bogdanovich are: ALLAN DWAN, director of more than four hundred movies, from silent one-reelers to 1950s Westerns; inventor of the “mercury vapor” light and the crane shot (devised to help D.W. Griffith solve a problem in shooting Intolerance); creator of the first screen idol, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.; discoverer of Rita Hayworth, Carole Lombard, Ida Lupino and six-year-old Natalie Wood. “I went out—not to Hollywood, because there were no studios in Hollywood... After a long search, I found our company in a little hotel. There were about eight actors, a lot of cowboys... everyone was sitting there doing nothing. I said, “Why aren't you working?’ They said, ‘Our director has been away on a binge for two weeks...” I wired the Chicago office: ‘Disband the company. You have no director. They wired back: ‘You direct’... I said, ‘What do I do?’ The actors gave me a megaphone and said, ‘You yell “Come on!” or “Action!” ... The cameraman will start turning the camera, and we'll ride over the hill.’” FRITZ LANG, one of the most powerful directors in pre-Hitler Germany (the other was Lubitsch), who in 1933 was asked by Goebbels to run the Nazi film industry, accepted the offer and fled the same night to Paris, and then to Hollywood. Twenty-four films later: “I first came to America briefly in 1924 . . . The first evening we were still enemy aliens, so we couldn’t leave the ship. It was docked somewhere on the West Side of New York. I looked into the streets—the glaring lights and the tall buildings—and there I conceived Metropolis.” HOWARD HAWKS, whose films include To Have and Have Not, Scarface, Red River and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He was never a tastemaker’s hero nor the subject of any chic cult, but regarded as a master by many. Bringing Up Baby “had a a fault... There were “no normal people in it!. Everyone youmet was a screwball and since that time I have learned my lesson and I don't intend ever again to make everybody crazy" EDGAR G. ULMER, assistant to F. W. Murnau on The Last Laugh. Sunrise and Tabu, then a legendary underground figure who made poverty row classics like The Black Cat, Bluebeard and the ultimate one-dark-night-as-I-was-driving picture, Detour. On The Last Laugh, we really had only one thing to sell... Emil Jannings’ face - - - The camera was supposed to be on top of Jannings as he walked through thatlobby and got into the elevator... We didn't have telescopic cameras or lenses then, we had the same lens... We didn't know about the 75 and everything up to 1000 Now. - - Later we were walking down the Kurfiirstendam (Boulevard, in Berlin] to have dinner. A woman, with twins in a baby buggy: was rolling along and I suddenly stopped and said, ‘What's going to stop us from putting the camera on a buggy? We tried and tried, and we built the first dolly.” Here as well are Josef von Sternberg, Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Chuck Jones, Joseph H. Lewis, Don Siegel, Otto Preminger and Frank Tashlin, talking about actors, directing, the studios. Their richly illuminating conversations with Bogdanovich combine to make this a riveting chronicle of Hollywood and picture-making. Peter Bogdanovich is the author of ten books, including This Is Orson Welles and John Ford. He is also the director of eighteen films, including The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc?, Texasville and Mask. He lives in Los Angeles and New York City, Condition:Book has red burgundy covers and is in like new condition. Pages crisp. Tiny bit waviness to top of pages up to about page 26- probably a manufacturers defect as book appears unread. See photos or ask for more. Dustjacket - near fine. 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