Book Review: S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker
It has often been stated that MGM was a bad studio for comedians due to the fact that legendary comics like Laurel and Hardy and The Marx...
Book Review: Karloff in the East
The only character Boris Karloff played on film more than once, other than Frankenstein’s monster, is Chinese detective James Lee Wong. ...
Book Review: The Cannon Film Guide Volume 1: 1980-1984
Writer-filmmaker Austin Trunick’s exhaustive study of the Golan-Globus Cannon Films ,for BearManor Media, only essentially covers the...
Book Review: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019
The research importance of Harris Lentz’s annual obit books is invaluable. Lentz carefully gathers every showbiz name who died...
Book Review: They Coulda Been Contenders
Film historian and author Dan Van Neste has chosen twelve noted actors for Hollywood's golden age who always could be counted on to turn...
Book Review: Under the Influence of Classic Country
Music historian and scholar Sheree Homer scores once again with a massive study of country music's evolution, based on the memories of...
Book Review: Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018
For many years, Harris Lentz has been collecting celebrity passings and compiling them in a book. Not content with merely offering...
Book Review: Olivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant
In a lifetime that has exceeded a century, Olivia de Havilland went from journeyman actor, to movie star, to classic film icon, to...
Book Review: Bela Lugosi and the Monogram 9
Bela Lugosi is best known as the movies' quintessential Dracula. It is somewhat remarkable that he only played the role on film twice,...
Book Review: AAAAALLLVIIINNN!
Sub-titled “The Story of Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Liberty Records, Format Films, and The Alvin Show,” this combination biography and career...