Film Stars' Television Projects

Pilots and Series of 50+ Movie Greats, 1948-1985

Richard Irvin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2017
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6916-8 (ISBN)

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Bette Davis as a madam. Orson Welles hosting The Twilight Zone. Mae West voicing a cartoon character. Shirley Temple playing a social worker. While Hollywood stars like Lucille Ball, Loretta Young and Donna Reed successfully transitioned to television in its early days, many others tried and failed to become TV regulars. Drawing on contemporary interviews and other sources, this book profiles more than 50 actors - including Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Alan Ladd and Buster Keaton - and their unsuccessful pilots and short-lived series roles.

Richard Irvin is a self-described documentarian of television history. He lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletev

Preface

Introduction

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Joan Blondell

Stephen Boyd

Claudette Colbert

Gary Cooper

Joan Crawford

Bette Davis

Irene Dunne

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Jose Ferrer

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Joan Fontaine

Janet Gaynor

Stewart Granger

Kathryn Grayson

Susan Hayward

Betty Hutton

Van Johnson

Buster Keaton

Alan Ladd

Hedy Lamarr

Janet Leigh

Peter Lorre

Myrna Loy

Chico, Groucho and Harpo Marx

Roddy McDowall

Ethel Merman

Pat O’Brien

Maureen O’Hara

Anthony Perkins

Walter Pidgeon

Jane Powell

Basil Rathbone

Edward G. Robinson

Jane Russell

George Sanders

Randolph Scott

Zachary Scott

Ann Sheridan

Alexis Smith

Barbara Stanwyck

Gloria Swanson

Shirley Temple

Orson Welles

Mae West

Esther Williams

Shelley Winters

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	20 photographs
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-6916-3 / 1476669163
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6916-8 / 9781476669168
Zustand	Neuware