Saved from Oblivion by Bernard Vorhaus
Before being black-listed in the McCarthy era, Bernard Vorhaus was one of Hollywood's most respected silent film writers, working for studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not only did he cross paths with some of the brightest lights in early Hollywood-Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, D.W. Griffith, John Wayne, Laurence Olivier are some examples-but he was a principal influence upon British filmmaker David Lean. Now in his nineties, Vorhaus recounts some of his pioneering work in film in Saved from Oblivion; he was the first director to incorporate subjective flash-backs and to use a sequence before the main titles. Recently, retrospectives of his films, such as Dusty Ermine and The Last Journey, were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as well as at the National Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival in England. This autobiography, replete with insight into the techniques and personas of early cinema, is an important as well as entertaining look at the early history of the medium that shaped the twentieth century. Although Vorhaus did not return to directing after he was prematurely cut from the industry in the wake of McCarthyism, he remembers his years there with nostalgia. Making films is much more exciting than anything else you can do, he says, and this book proves it.-
Wife of the Life of the Party
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David Lynch
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Hollywood be Thy Name
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Huston, We Have a Problem
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Order in the Universe
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Company of Heroes
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Scorsese Up Close
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Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia
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Hugo Friedhofer
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Wolf Man's Maker
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Between the Bullets
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Peckinpah's Women
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Hugo Friedhofer: The Best Years of His Life
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Some Cutting Remarks
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With or Without a Song
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Budd Schulberg
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William Beaudine
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Showdown at High Noon
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The Divine Comic
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Henry Hathaway
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Body and Soul
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William Desmond Taylor
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Paul Landres
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The Word Made Flesh
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Picture Perfect
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My Only Great Passion
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No Film in My Camera
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Before, In and After Hollywood
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An Actor and a Rare One
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Actors on Red Alert
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Stars of the Silents
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Making Music with Charlie Chaplin
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A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point
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The Creative Producer
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Stanley Donen
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Reinventing Reality-The Art and Life of Rouben Mamoulian
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Straight from the Horse's Mouth
Vorhaus tells his life story in a novel-like fashion, peppering the narrative with moments of romance, intrigue, and high adventure..Packed with page-turning anecdotes, this is a story that truly was worth saving from oblivion. * Film Review *
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780810838673 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810838672 |
| Title | Saved from Oblivion |
| Author | Bernard Vorhaus |
| Series | The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
| Year published | 2000-12-13 |
| Number of pages | 184 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |