Aline MacMahon (eBook)

Hollywood, the Blacklist, and the Birth of Method Acting

John Stangeland (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
352 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9608-4 (ISBN)

Infos

American actress Aline MacMahon's youth was spent honing her talents while performing at local events in New York City. After popular stage success on Broadway, she headlined a touring company in Los Angeles, where she was discovered by legendary Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy and put under contract to Warner Brothers.During the 1930s and 1940s, MacMahon starred in countless films and was among the most influential actors of the era, her talent revered as highly as peers Katherine Hepburn, Paul Muni, and Bette Davis. Her pioneering use of a new acting style brought to America from Russia by Konstantin Stanlisavskynow widely known as the Methodbegan a revolution on the screen and made her an industry darling.Although popular with audiences and widely lauded for her versatile, naturalistic style, MacMahon's despair at the lack of challenging roles and fallout from her political activism would soon dim her star in the most tragic of ways. Blacklisted during the Communist Red Scare of the 1950's she became the subject of covert FBI surveillance and was denied work for many years.John Stangeland's biography of this unique actress,Aline MacMahon, offers an insightful look into the life and oeuvre of this largely overlooked talent and how the atmosphere of Hollywood's golden age created an inescapable blueprint for a career nearly destroyed by politics and fear.

Autor

John Stangeland is the author of Warren William: Magnificent Scoundrel of Pre-Code Hollywood.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Till the First Star Shook in the Air
2. An Old Sweetheart of Mine
3. Teach Me, and set My Feet on the Way
4. The River of Stars is Rolling
5. No One has Ever Known Her Alive
6. Once in a Lifetime
7. At Once They Circled Her Round
8. Reward Unlimited
9. Gold Digging
10. Seeds of Freedom
11. One Way Passage
12. The World Changes
13. We Fight it Round by Round
14. Ah Wilderness
15. With Eyes Like Stars, to the Deep

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Screen Classics
• Reihe/Serie: Screen Classics
• Zusatzinfo: 46 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Broadway • clarence stein • comediennes • communism • dragon seed movie • five star final • Gold Diggers of 1933 • guy kibee • Hollywood blacklist • Movie stars • Old Hollywood • once in a lifetime movie • the madras house • the mouthpiece movie
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-9608-6 / 0813196086
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-9608-4 / 9780813196084