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Stage actor turned Hollywood star, William S. Hart (1864-1946) was for movie fans a cherished symbol of the romantic Old West. His silent westerns offered excitement, lessons in righteous behavior, and a nostalgic vision of the American frontier. This intriguing biography explores the personal and professional life of Hollywood's prototypical cowboy hero.Born in Newburgh, New York, Hart grew up in a Victorian atmosphere that gave rise to the r...

This three volume set presents papers from the first collaborative global metallurgy conference focused exclusively on extractive topics, including business and economic issues. Contributions examine new developments in foundational extractive metallurgy topics and techniques, and present the latest research and insights on emerging technologies and issues that are shaping the global extractive metallurgy industry. The book is organized around...

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This three volume set presents papers from the first collaborative global metallurgy conference focused exclusively on extractive topics, including business and economic issues. Contributions examine new developments in foundational extractive metallurgy topics and techniques, and present the latest research and insights on emerging technologies and issues that are shaping the global extractive metallurgy industry. The book is organized around...

Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. In Zachary Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad, Ronald L. Davis writes an appealing biography of the film star. To reconstruct Scott's life, Davis uses interviews with Scott and colleagues, and reviews, articles, and archival correspondence from the Scott papers.

In its heyday Hollywood's big studio system mirrored the corporate ideology that catapulted the United States into economic prominence. By the mid-1920s power was consolidated into four major studios: Metro-Goldyn-Mayer, Paramount, Fox, and Warner Bros., all appropriating the assembly line approach of the Detroit automobile manufacturers. The Glamour Factory is the story of the motion picture business, told with the help of hundreds of insider...

?By concentrating on a specific geographic area, and drawing extensively on primary materials (including census manuscript schedules, tax rolls, lien and mortgage records, probate records, and personal and governmental papers), Ronald L. F. Davis has made a major contribution to the ongoing debates about the transitions in the South resulting from the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves. He provides important new information on the la...

Reflections from the filmmakers who kept screens flickering in the big studio era

This book provides insights to church, association and convention leaders concerned for the future-for the effectiveness of the organizational health to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus Christ. The author desire is to assist leaders of each of these entities in understanding its organizational history in order to diagnose unhealthy issues and bring about renewed vitality. The revitalization of the association can be the starting point f...

Van Johnson's dazzling smile, shock of red hair, and suntanned freckled cheeks made him a movie-star icon. Among teenaged girls in the 1940s he was popularized as the bobbysoxer's heartthrob. He won the nation's heart, too, by appearing in a series of blockbuster war films--A Guy Named Joe, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Weekend at the Waldorf, and Battleground. Perennially a leading man opposite June Allyson, Esther Williams, Judy Garland, and Ja...

This is an engaging and informative look into the inner workings of the Hollywood studio system as experienced by thirteen veteran screenwriters - including Charles Bennett ("Reap the Wild Wind"), Julius Epstein ("Arsenic and Old Lace"), Philip Dunne ("Last of the Mohicans"), and Edmund North ("The Day the Earth Stood Still"). "Words into Images" explores a broad range of topics, including studio politics, production problems, frustrations cau...

A biography of the stage and screen star who could never escape the role of dashing villain

More than two decades after his death, John Wayne is still America's favorite movie star. In this illuminating biography, Davis focuses on Wayne's human side, portraying a complex personality defined by frailty and insecurity as well as by courage and strength. 27 illustrations.

Cosa avevano in comune Leonardo da Vinci e Walt Disney? Erano dislessici, e come un altro dislessico, Ronald Davis, avevano il dono della creatività, dono che, permise a Davis di sviluppare e realizzare un nuovo rivoluzionario metodo per correggere la dislessia e i disturbi dell'apprendimento in genere. Questo libro parte dall'analisi del problema dislessia, ne elabora una teoria evolutiva e propone atti e comportamenti concreti spiegati a gen...

If the church is to experience racial reconciliation it must be committed to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. This book is a call for racial reconciliation. It tells the story of race relations shrouded in church program activities, church planting and convention resolutions that cannot and has not changed the hearts of people. Our country and churches are as divided today as ever before.Most of the accounts presented in this book are person...

The first book-length biography of a theater icon