BackHollywood Musicals
Year by Year - Third Edition (book in English)
by Stanley Green and Barry Monush
- Type
- Encyclopedias
- Subject
- Genre > Musicals
- musicals, filmography
- Publishing Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 466 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm) - ISBN
- 978-1-4234-8903-0
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Book Presentation:
Whose singing voice was substituted for Marjorie Reynolds in Holiday Inn ? What movie was the first to combine live action with animated cartoon characters? What movie did Marlon Brando first sing in? These and thousands of other interesting facts about Hollywood's favorite musicals are answered in Hollywood Musicals Year by Year . This book provides a world of information, facts, and trivia about cinema's favorite musicals. Beginning with The Jazz Singer and moving through the years, this illustrated book documents more than 300 movies. Each entry includes the screenplay writer, producer, director, choreographer, cast list, song list, release date, plot summary, and interesting notes surrounding the production, cast, and spin-offs that the movie inspired. Hollywood Musicals Year by Year also contains many photographs of memorable moments in celluloid history.
About the authors:
Stanley Green (1928-1990) was a historian of the American musical theatre, devoting many years to lecturing and writing on the subject. In 1967, Green wrote A Salute to the American Musical Theatre for the Manhattan School of Music, which was performed at the White House. He was the author of The World of Musical Comedy and The Encyclopedia of Musical Comedy, among other well-loved books. Barry Monush is the editor of the Screen World annuals and the author of The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965 and Everybody's Talkin': The Top Films of 1965-1969, all published by Applause. A researcher at the Paley Center for Media in New York, he resides in Metuchen, New Jersey.
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