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This book is dedicated to my wife Kay, who has spent more hours watching movies with me than either of us can count. Her insights, intelligence, and love have helped my understanding of the art of the film in uncountable ways. 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., translated by Roberta and Simone Blaché. 1996 13. Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia, by Cooper C. Graham. 1986 14. Robed 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 (out of print; see No. 70) 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 (1927-1928) 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 Randall 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 Hollywood—A 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 64. Back Lot: Growing Up with the Movies, by Maurice Rapf. 1999 65. Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood: My Early Life and Career in Sound Recording at Columbia with Frank Capra and Others, by Edward Bernds. 1999 66. Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life: A Hollywood Master of Music for the Movies, edited by Linda Danly. 1999 67. Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist, by Anthony Slide. 1999 68. My Only Great Passion: The Life and Films of Carl Th. Dreyer, by Jean Drum and Dale D. Drum. 1999 69. Ready When You Are, Mr. Coppola, Mr. Spielberg, Mr. Crowe, by Jerry Ziesmer. 1999 70. Order in the Universe: The Films of John Carpenter, 2nd ed., by Robert C. Cumbow. 2000 71. Making Music with Charlie Chaplin, by Eric James. 2000 72. An Open Window: The Cinema of Victor Erice, edited by Linda C. Ehrlich. 2000 73. Satyajit Ray: In Search of the Modern, by Suranjan Ganguly. 2000 74. Voices from the Set: The Film Heritage Interviews, edited by Tony Macklin and Nick Pici. 2000 75. Paul Landres: A Director’s Stories, by Francis M. Nevins. 2000 76. No Film in My Camera, by Bill Gibson. 2000 77. Saved from Oblivion: An Autobiography, by Bernard Vorhaus. 2000 78. Wolf Man’s Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer, by Curt Siodmak. 2001 79. An Actor, and a Rare One: Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, by Tony Earnshaw. 2001 80. Picture Perfect, by Herbert L. Strock. 2000 81. Peter Greenaway’s PostmodemlPoststructuralist Cinema, edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi and Mary Alemany Galway. 2001 82. Member of the Crew, by Winfrid Kay Thackrey. 2001 83. Barefoot on Barbed Wire, by Jimmy Starr. 2001 84. Henry Hathaway: A Directors Guild of America Oral History, edited and annotated by Rudy Behlmer. 2001 85. The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni, by Carlo Celli. 2001 86. With or Without a Song: A Memoir, by Edward Eliscu. 2001 87. Stuart Erwin: The Invisible Actor, by Judy Cornes. 2001 88. Some Cutting Remarks: Seventy Years a Film Editor, by Ralph E. Winters. 2001 89. Confessions of a Hollywood Director, by Richard L. Bare. 2001 90. Peckinpah’s Women: A Reappraisal of the Portrayal of Women in the Period Westerns of Sam Peckinpah, by Bill Mesce Jr. 2001 91. Budd Schulberg: A Bio-Bibliography, by Nicholas Beck. 2001 92. Between the Bullets: The Spiritual Cinema of John Woo, by Michael Bliss. 2002 93. The Hollywood I Knew: 1916-1988, by Herbert Coleman. 2002 94. The Films of Steven Spielberg, edited by Charles L. P. Silet. 2002 95. Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie, by Tony Lee Moral. 2002 96. White Horse, Black Hat: A Quarter Century on Hollywood’s Poverty Row, by C. Jack Lewis. 2002 97. Worms in the Winecup: A Memoir, by John Bright. 2002 98. Straight from the Horse’s Mouth: An Autobiography, by Ronald Neame.