{"product_id":"who-the-hells-in-it-conversations-with-hollywoods-legendary-actors-9780345480026","title":"Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors","description":"Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of \u003ci\u003eFinian's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e); he watched actors work (he went to the theater every week from the age of thirteen and saw every important show on, or off, Broadway for the next decade); he studied acting, starting at sixteen, with Stella Adler (his work with her became the foundation for all he would ever do as an actor and a director). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, in his new book, \u003ci\u003eWho the Hell's in It, \u003c\/i\u003e Bogdanovich draws upon a lifetime of experience, observation and understanding of the art to write about the actors he came to know along the way; actors he admired from afar; actors he worked with, directed, befriended. Among them: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Cassavetes, Charlie Chaplin, Montgomery Clift, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Audrey Hepburn, Boris Karloff, Dean Martin, Marilyn Monroe, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Frank Sinatra, and James Stewart.\u003cbr\u003eBogdanovich captures--in their words and his--their work, their individual styles, what made them who they were, what gave them their appeal and why they've continued to be America's iconic actors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn Lillian Gish: \"the first virgin hearth goddess of the screen . . . a valiant and courageous symbol of fortitude and love through all distress.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn Marlon Brando: \"He challenged himself never to be the same from picture to picture, refusing to become the kind of film star the studio system had invented and thrived upon--the recognizable human commodity each new film was built around . . . The funny thing is that Brando's charismatic screen persona was vividly apparent despite the multiplicity of his guises . . . Brando always remains recognizable, a star-actor in spite of himself. \" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJerry Lewis to Bogdanovich on the first laugh Lewis ever got onstage: \"I was five years old. My mom and dad had a tux made--I worked in the borscht circuit with them--and I came out and I sang, 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?' the big hit at the time . . . It was 1931, and I stopped the show--naturally--a five-year-old in a tuxedo is \u003ci\u003enot \u003c\/i\u003egoing to stop the show? And I took a bow and my foot slipped and hit one of the floodlights and it exploded and the smoke and the sound scared me so I started to cry. The audience laughed--they were hysterical . . . So I knew I had to get the rest of my laughs the rest of my life, breaking, sitting, falling, spinning.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Wayne to Bogdanovich, on the early years of Wayne's career when he was working as a prop man: \"Well, I've naturally studied John Ford professionally as well as loving the man. Ever since the first time I walked down his set as a goose-herder in 1927. They needed somebody from the prop department to keep the geese from getting under a fake hill they had for \u003ci\u003eMother Machree\u003c\/i\u003e at Fox. I'd been hired because Tom Mix wanted a box seat for the USC football games, and so they promised jobs to Don Williams and myself and a couple of the players. They buried us over in the properties department, and Mr. Ford's need for a goose-herder just seemed to fit my pistol.\"\u003cbr\u003eThese twenty-six portraits and conversations are unsurpassed in their evocation of a certain kind of great movie star that has vanished. Bogdanovich's book is a celebration and a farewell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16157306\"\u003ePeter Bogdanovich\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.18h x 6.24w x 1.14d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345480026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0345480023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO005000\"\u003eEntertainment \u0026amp; Performing Arts\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PER\"\u003ePerforming Arts\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PER004000\"\u003eFilm | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Bogdanovich, is the author of thirteen books, including \u003ci\u003eWho the Devil Made It\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eThis Is Orson Welles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Howard Hawks\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJohn Ford\u003c\/i\u003e. Bogdanovich has directed such plays as \u003ci\u003eThe Big Knife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCamino Real\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOnce in a Lifetime\u003c\/i\u003e. His films include \u003ci\u003eTargets, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Last Picture Show, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhat's Up, Doc?, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaper Moon\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThey All Laughed\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays and reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44538110443757,"sku":"9780345480026","price":25.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5a0f1655-5c4e-45c1-aab0-dbba504d7f1e.jpg?v=1701451070","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/who-the-hells-in-it-conversations-with-hollywoods-legendary-actors-9780345480026","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}