FORGOTTEN FILMS TO REMEMBER And a Brief History of Fifty Years of the American Talking Picture by Springer, John - 1980

Secaucus NJ: Citadel Press. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. 080650692X; This is a large book and is not eligible for Priority, Air or International under standard fees. Very minor soil and wear on the sound binding. Contents are clean and unworn. Top of DJ's spine is quite worn, otherwise minor wear and soil on the complete dust jacket. ; First Printing of the FIRST EDITION. Blue boards, Yellow cloth spine, black spine lettering. Illustrated with hundreds of rare stills from private collections. HOLLYWOOD. The films in this fascinating book did not win any Academy Awards, and they rarely turned up on any critic's best ten list, but they gave a great deal of pleasure to their audiences when they were first released. Some of them, unhappily, have been destroyed by the ravages of time and neglect; a few have been deliberately destroyed. Yet each of these films had its appeal in its own day. This book is a veritiable treasure trove of memories. Five decades of films - hundreds of them - are brought back to life through the hundreds of rare stills from private collections. Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, John Barrymoe, Robert Montgomery, Joan Bennett, Richad Barthelmess, Ronald Colman, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Jimmy Cagney, Loretta Young, etc. , etc. , etc. . ; 8-3/4 x 11-1/4" ; 256 pages .