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Howard Hawks
- The Grey Fox of Hollywood
- Narrated by: Ryan Horn
- Length: 30 hrs and 54 mins
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The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors. Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, and others, but Hawks’s greatest creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic Monthly noted, “Todd McCarthy. . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work.”
Critic reviews
"Excellent...a respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately smartass look at Hollywood's most versatile director."--Newsweek
"McCarthy does a good job of distilling not so much a style as an unflinching philosophy of life.... He gives us the stoic, comic essence of Hawks and his films."--Entertainment Weekly
"Spectacular.... McCarthy's thick, rich biography...chronicles in vivid detail how perhaps the last great popular artist in the movies worked."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, Cinemascope and Vistavision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios, the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Masterclass in film
- By John Connors on 05-30-24
By: Foster Hirsch
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The Lonely Life
- An Autobiography
- By: Bette Davis
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 200
The Lonely Life details the first 50-plus years of Davis' life - her Yankee childhood, her rise to stardom in Hollywood, the birth of her beloved children, and the uncompromising choices she made along the way to succeed. The book was updated with new material in the 1980s, bringing the story up to the end of Davis' life - all the heartbreak, all the drama, and all the love she experienced at every stage of her extraordinary life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bette really liked herself...
- By Anonymous User on 01-14-19
By: Bette Davis
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Michael Curtiz
- A Life in Film
- By: Alan K. Rode
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 25 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz—whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas—was in many ways the anti-auteur. During his 27-year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, Westerns, musicals, war epics, romances, historical dramas, horror films, tearjerkers, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces. In the first biography of this colorful, instinctual artist, Alan K. Rode illuminates the life and work of one of the film industry's most complex figures.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comprehensive
- By MikeEC on 04-28-22
By: Alan K. Rode
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From the Moment They Met It Was Murder
- Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir
- By: Alain Silver, James Ursini
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary. Authors Alain Silver and James Ursini tell the complete history of Double Indemnity in their latest and most provocative work on film noir: From the Moment They Met It Was Murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for film buffs
- By mike on 05-04-24
By: Alain Silver, and others
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The Academy and the Award
- The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- By: Bruce Davis
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
For all the near-fanatic attention brought each year to the Academy Awards, the organization that dispenses those awards—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—has yet to be understood. To date, no one has ever produced a thorough account of the Academy’s birth and its awkward adolescence, and the few reports on those periods from outside have always had a glancing, cursory quality. Yet the story of the Academy’s creation and development is a critical piece of Hollywood’s history. Now that story is finally being told.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very interesting look at the Academy Awards
- By Andrew Darlow on 03-27-24
By: Bruce Davis
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Ferocious Ambition
- Joan Crawford’s March to Stardom
- By: Robert Dance
- Narrated by: Greg D. Barnett
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Joan Crawford's remarkable forty-five-year motion picture career is one of the industry's longest. Signing her first contract in 1925, she was crowned an MGM star four years later and by the mid-1930s was the most popular actress in America. In the early 1940s, Crawford's risky decision to move to Warner Bros. was rewarded with an Oscar for Mildred Pierce. This triumph launched a series of film noir classics. She teamed with rival Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, proving that Crawford, whose career had begun by defining big-screen glamor, had matured into a dramatic actress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Most Excellent Film Biography
- By Patrick A. Oconnor on 05-02-24
By: Robert Dance
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City of Nets
- A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
- By: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 25 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20
In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disjointed and flawed
- By A. N. Onymous on 01-18-22
By: Otto Friedrich, and others
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Outrageous
- A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars
- By: Kliph Nesteroff
- Narrated by: Kliph Nesteroff
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive today, that nobody objected to the actions of actors, comedians, and filmmakers in the past. Modern pundits would have us believe that Americans of a previous generation had tougher skin and seldom complained. But does this argument hold up to scrutiny? In Outrageous, celebrated cultural historian Kliph Nesteroff demonstrates that Americans have been objecting to entertainment for nearly two hundred years, sometimes rationally, often irrationally.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relevant
- By Jeff Brock on 02-05-24
By: Kliph Nesteroff
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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
- My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
- By: Ed Zwick
- Narrated by: Ed Zwick
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 222
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 216
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Story5 out of 5 stars 216
This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer of My So-Called Life, gives a dishy, behind-the-scenes look at working with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic, Sobering & Full of Grace
- By David_Leah Wiley on 02-17-24
By: Ed Zwick
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Hollywood: The Oral History
- By: Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Marni Penning
- Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a listener “listen in” on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera—Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd—to the biggest behind it—Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on screen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Picky, Picky!
- By Patrick on 12-22-22
By: Jeanine Basinger, and others
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Oscar Wars
- A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
- By: Michael Schulman
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 180
In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramas—some iconic, others never-before-revealed—that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular year, conflict, or even category that tells a larger story of cultural change, from Louis B. Mayer to Moonlight. Schulman examines how the red carpet runs through contested turf, and the victors aren't always as clear as the names drawn from envelopes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and FUN
- By Peter Riley on 06-11-23
By: Michael Schulman
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- Lucas
- 03-07-24
Terrible Narration, Good story
I never, I mean, NEVER, write reviews. Much less, bad reviews. It's hard reading a book about a subject matter you may know little about.
HOWEVER, this narrator is so far off the mark it has me screaming the correct pronunciation of names, places, cities, you name it, this guy can get it wrong.
There’s also a chapter that isn’t completely read.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 05-21-24
The narrator is TERRIBLE but all
The challenge of writing a biography for Howard Hawks is unenviable for History, there’s so little info about this man’s origins that we don’t get to know him intimately enough and if that doesn’t help - THE MAN LIES CONSTANTLY. Given that Hawks very rarely let us in on his own internal subjectivity it’s no wonder it’s such a daunting task but McCarthy pulls it off.
On the narrator. HORRIBLE. Honestly I expect more from audible, I’m already halfway through and this man has already recorded and messed up a handful of lines and repeated to correct himself which would be fine if I wasn’t paying for it. But it’s the worst narration yet and then fact that I wrote a review is inherently proof to that because I never rate or write reviews but this was just so bad.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Daniel T.
- 05-03-24
To have or have not the big sleep chapter 26
Chapter 26 is butchered. 10 minutes in it drops story of To Have or Have Not and jumps to Red River. Skips over the Big sleep completely. WTF?
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