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Signed John Houseman Front & Center Hardcover in Dustcover Book
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Signed John Houseman Front & Center Hardcover in Dustcover Book
The book is in excellent condition.
Provenance: I purchased this autographed book along with other signed books at an auction house all from one person. I have every reason to believe that the signature is that of John Houseman. The person I purchased this from collected signed books and I have other signed books from this collection for sale on my Chairish shop.
JOHN HOUSEMAN is best known to millions of Americans for his Academy Award- winning performance in The Paper Chase as Dr.Kingsfield, a role that he has recreated for television in one of the most admired series ever. Above and beyond this, Houseman is one of the most extraordinary talents of the American theater, a distinguished television and motion picture producer and a brilliant writer. Run-Through, the first volume of his memoirs, was widely acclaimed as one of the most entertaining and informative books written on the contemporary American theater. In it Mr. Houseman recounted his youth and early years in show business and offered dozens of stories, anecdotes and portraits of his famous contemporaries, friends and collaborators, from Orson Welles, Virgil Thomson, Marc Blitzstein and Herman Mankiewicz (with whom he worked on the script of Citizen Kane) to David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock.
Now, in Front and Center, Houseman continues the story of his fascinating life, beginning with his wartime work on the innovative and controversial "Voice of America," a remarkable experiment in persuasion marked by bitter quarrels and ideological battles, and his friendships with such diverse personalities as Robert Sherwood, James Warburg and Joseph Barnes. He goes on to chronicle his career in Hollywood in the forties, when he produced, among others, The Blue Dahlia and Letter from an Unknown Woman; his return to Broadway and production of Lute Song (continued from front flap) and the world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, which starred Charles Laughton. He recalls his associations with Ray Chandler, Nicholas Ray and Joan Fontaine; his experiences during the Red Scare and blacklists of the fifties; his daring film of Julius Caesar starring Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, Louis Calhern and James Mason; and Lust for Life, in which Kirk Douglas played Van Gogh. ...
Front and Center is as rich in story and entertaining detail as Run-Through, and even more revealing of the many worlds in which John Houseman has lived. Here is a unique and fascinating look at life in Hollywood and the theater, related by a gifted man who writes about himself with wit, astonishing candor, a piercing eye for the ridiculous in himself and others, and a total recall that makes his memoirs remarkably true-to-life.
Front and Center is certain to be the most talked-about autobiography in years.
Illustrated with 48 pages of photographs.
Copyright C 1979 by John Houseman
All rights reserved
including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form Published by Simon and Schuster
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Rockefeller Center
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Designed by Edith Fowler
Photo editor: Vincent Virga
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Houseman, John.
Front and center.
I. Houseman, John. 2. Theatrical producers and directors-United States—
Biography. I. Title.
PN2287H7A295
792.023 0924
[B] 79-17482
ISBN 0-671-24328-4
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- Dimensions
- 6ʺW × 1.75ʺD × 8.75ʺH
- Styles
- American
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Excellent like new condition. Excellent like new condition. less
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