Billy Wilder on assignment : dispatches from Weimar Berlin and interwar Vienna
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton : Princeton University Press,
2021
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| Schlagworte: | Journalism Theater Motion pictures Journalism-Austria-Vienna-History-20th century Journalism-Germany-Berlin-History-20th century Electronic books Wilder, Billy Feuilleton |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | No detailed description available for "Billy Wilder on Assignment". Cover -- Contents -- I. Extra! Extra! Reportage, Opinion Pieces, and Features from Real Life -- "Waiter, A Dancer, Please!" -- Promenaden-Café -- That's Some Cold Weather-in Venice! -- This Is Where Christopher Columbus Came into the Old World -- The Art of Little Ruses -- Naphthalene -- Anything but Objectivity! -- When It's Eighty-four Degrees -- Day of Destiny -- Wanted: Perfect Optimist -- Renovation: An Ode to the Coffeehouse -- Why Don't Matches Smell That Way Anymore? -- The Rose of Jericho -- Little Economics Lesson -- Film Terror: On the Threat of Being Photographed -- Berlin Rendezvous -- Night Ride over Berlin -- The Business of Thirst: What People Are Drinking Nowadays -- Here We Are at Film Studio 1929 -- How We Shot Our Studio Film -- Getting Books to Readers -- How I Pumped Zaharoff for Money -- II. Portraits of Extraordinary and Ordinary People -- Asta Nielsen's Theatrical Mission -- My "Prince of Wales" -- Lubitsch Discovers: A Casting by America's Great Director -- The Tiller Girls Are Here! -- The Tiller Girls' Boarding School at the Prater -- Girardi's Son Plays Jazz at the Mary Bar -- Paul Whiteman, His Mustache, the Cobenzl, and the Taverns -- Whiteman Triumphs in Berlin -- I Interview Mr. Vanderbilt -- The Prince of Wales Goes on Holiday -- Chaplin II and the Others at the Scala -- The Lookalike Man: Tale of a Chameleon Named Erwin -- A Minister on Foot -- Interview with a Witch: Women's Newest Profession -- Grock, the Man Who Makes the World Laugh -- Ten Minutes with Chaliapin -- Claude Anet in Berlin -- At the Home of the Oldest Woman in Berlin -- Felix Holländer -- The Elder Statesman of Berlin Theater Critics -- The B. Z. Lady and the German Crown Prince -- Stroheim, the Man We Love to Hate -- A Poker Artist: The Magic of Fritz Herrmann -- "Hello, Mr. Menjou?" -- Klabund Died a Year Ago. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780691214559 0691214557 9780691194943 0691194947 |