On Actors and Acting : Essays Filmmakers title: Series; No. 63 author: Knox, Alexander.; Slide, Anthony. publisher: Scarecrow Press isbn10 | asin: 0810834995 print isbn13: 9780810834996 ebook isbn13: 9780585121772 language: English subject Actors--United States--Anecdotes, Acting. publication date: 1998 lcc: PN2285.K47 1998eb ddc: 792/.028/092273 subject: Actors--United States--Anecdotes, Acting. Page I FILMMAKERS SERIES edited by ANTHONY SLIDE 1. James Whale, by James Curtis. 1982 2. Cinema Stylists, by John Belton. 1983 3. Harry Langdon, by William Schelly. 1982 4. William A. Wellman, by Frank Thompson. 1983 5. Stanley Donen, by Joseph Casper. 1983 6. Brian De Palma, by Michael Bliss. 1983 7. J. Stuart Blackton, by Marian Blackton Trimble. 1985 8. Martin Scorsese and Michael Cimino, by Michael Bliss. 1985 9. Franklin J. Schaffner, by Erwin Kim. 1985 10. D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company, by Cooper C. Graham et al. 1985 11. Some Day We'll Laugh: An Autobiography, by Esther Ralston. 1985 12. The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché, 2nd ed., trans. by Roberta and Simone Blaché. 1996 13. Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia, by Cooper C. Graham. 1986 14. Robert Florey, by Brian Taves. 1987 15. Henry King's America, by Walter Coppedge. 1986 16. Aldous Huxley and Film, by Virginia M. Clark. 1987 17. Five American Cinematographers, by Scott Eyman. 1987 18. Cinematographers on the Art and Craft of Cinematography, by Anna Kate Sterling. 1987 19. Stars of the Silents, by Edward Wagenknecht. 1987 20. Twentieth Century-Fox, by Aubrey Solomon. 1988 21. Highlights and Shadows: The Memoirs of a Hollywood Cameraman, by Charles G. Clarke. 1989 22. I Went That-a-Way: The Memoirs of a Western Film Director, by Harry L. Fraser; edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Audrey Brown Fraser. 1990 23. Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter, by Robert C. Cumbow. 1990 Page ii 24. The Films of Freddie Francis, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1991 25. Hollywood Be Thy Name, by William Bakewell. 1991 26. The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1991 27. Lionheart in Hollywood: The Autobiography of Henry Wilcoxon, with Katherine Orrison. 1991 28. William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier, by Bruce Long. 1991 29. The Films of Leni Riefenstahl, 2nd ed., by David B. Hinton. 1991 30. Hollywood Holyland: The Filming and Scoring of "The Greatest Story Ever Told," by Ken Darby. 1992 31. The Films of Reginald LeBorg: Interviews, Essays, and Filmography, by Wheeler Winston Dixon. 1992 32. Memoirs of a Professional Cad, by George Sanders, with Tony Thomas. 1992 33. The Holocaust in French Film, by André Pierre Colombat. 1993 34. Robert Goldstein and "The Spirit of '76," edited and compiled by Anthony Slide. 1993 35. Those Were the Days, My Friend: My Life in Hollywood with David O. Selznick and Others, by Paul Macnamara. 1993 36. The Creative Producer, by David Lewis; edited by James Curtis. 1993 37. Reinventing Reality: The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian, by Mark Spergel. 1993 38. Malcolm St. Clair: His Films, 1915-1948, by Ruth Anne Dwyer. 1997 39. Beyond Hollywood's Grasp: American Filmmakers Abroad, 1914- 1945, by Harry Waldman. 1994 40. A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point, by Rose Hobart. 1994 41. Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer, by Shelley Green. 1994 42. Company of Heroes: My Life as an Actor in the John Ford Stock Company, by Harry Carey, Jr. 1994 43. Strangers in Hollywood: A History of Scandinavian Actors in American Films from 1910 to World War II, by Hans J. Wollstein. 1994 44. Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups, by Georgia Hale, edited with an introduction and notes by Heather Kiernan. 1995 45. The Word Made Flesh: Catholicism and Conflict in the Films of Martin Scorsese, by Michael Bliss. 1995 46. W. S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927- Page iii 1928) and other Van Dyke on Van Dyke, edited and annotated by Rudy Behlmer. 1996 47. Music from the House of Hammer: Music in the Hammer Horror Films, 1950-1980, by Ronald D. Larson. 1996 48. Directing: Learn from the Masters, by Tay Garnett. 1996 49. Featured Player: An Oral Autobiography of Mae Clarke, edited with an introduction by James Curtis. 1996 50. A Great Lady: A Life of the Screenwriter Sonya Levien, by Larry Ceplair. 1996 51. A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer, by Denis Meikle. 1996 52. The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers, by Scott Salwolke. 1997 53. From Oz to E. T.: Wally Worsley's Half-Century in HollywoodA Memoir in Collaboration with Sue Dwiggins Worsley, edited by Charles Ziarko. 1997 54. Thorold Dickinson and the British Cinema, by Jeffrey Richards. 1997 55. The Films of Oliver Stone, edited by Don Kunz. 1997 56. Before, In and After Hollywood: The Autobiography of Joseph E. Henabery, edited by Anthony Slide. 1997 57. Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian, compiled by Anthony Slide. 1997 58. Smile When the Raindrops Fall, by Brian Anthony and Andy Edmonds. 1998 59. Joseph H. Lewis: Overview, Interview, and Filmography, by Francis M. Nevins. 1998 60. September Song: An Intimate Biography of Walter Huston, by John Weld. 1998 61. Wife of the Life of the Party, by Lita Grey Chaplin and Jeffrey Vance. 1998 62. Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird: A Documentary in Letters of Eric Knight, by Geoff Gehman. 1998 63. On Actors and Acting: Essays by Alexander Knox, edited by Anthony Slide. 1998 Page iv Image Not Available Alexander Knox. (Alexander Knox Collection) Page v On Actors and Acting Essays By Alexander Knox Edited and with an Introduction by Anthony Slide Filmmakers Series, No. 63 The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 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