The Star Makers : On Set with Hollywood's Greatest Directors

Willoughby, Bob

ISBN 10: 1858942330 / ISBN 13: 9781858942339

Published by Merrell Publishers Limited, London New York, 2003

About this Item

HB DJ 1st Ed. See my pic. DJ not clipped. Black cloth boards, white titles spine. 28.5 x 24.8cm. 351 pages. b/w + f/c photos. Foreword by Sydney Pollack. Author was the first 'outside' photographers to work on Hollywood closed sets. Since the early 1950's he has documented the making of hundreds of Hollywood films. Here are 500 illustrations accompanied by Willoughby's own fascinating observations of how each film was made. Condition: Remains of part of sticker front DJ top right, will wipe off, otherwise DJ + book like new. Good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Star Makers : On Set with Hollywood's Greatest Directors
• Publisher: Merrell Publishers Limited, London New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1858942330
• ISBN 13: 9781858942339
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Various
• Edition: First
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Bob Willoughby is one of the world's foremost photojournalists of the Hollywood movie iindustry, and was the first 'outside' photographer to work on what were originally closed sets. Since the early 1950s he has documented the making of literally hundreds of Hollywood films, taking intimate portraits of famous Academy Award-winning stars and directors that reflect the drama and emotions of moviemaking that exist both on and off the screen. From such 1950s classics as George Cukor's "A Star is Born and Otto Preminger's "Benjour Tristesse, through such major films of the 1960s and 1970s as Mike Nichols's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Sydney Pollack's "They Shoot Horses, Don't They? to such films of the 1980s as John Landis's "An American Werewolf in London and Jean-Jacques Annaud's "The Name of the Rose, this book is a fascinating album of Bob Willoughby's memorable shots, accompanied by his own fascinating and incisive observations of how each film was made. "The Star Makers is a stunning and engaging tribute to the most popular art form and some of the greatest and most creative personalities of modern times.