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Adventures In The Screen Trade
''Adventures in the Screen Trade'' is a book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman. The title is a pun on Dylan Thomas's ''Adventures in the Skin Trade''. Overview The book is divided into three parts. "Part One: Hollywood Realities" is a collection of essays on various subjects ranging from movie stars and studio executives to his thoughts on how to begin and end a screenplay and how to write for a movie star. "Part Two: Adventures" has stories from 11 projects that Goldman has been involved with, from ''Charly'' and ''Masquerade'', to the Academy Award-winning ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' and ''All the President's Men'', to some projects that remained unrealised, such as a musical remake of ''Grand Hotel''. In "Part Three: Da Vinci", Goldman shows the reader how he would go about adapting his own short story "Da Vinci" into a screenplay. The full text of "Da Vinci" and the subsequent screenplay that he wrote are included, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Hotel (1932 Film)
''Grand Hotel'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by William A. Drake is based on the 1930 play of the same title by Drake, who had adapted it from the 1929 novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. To date, it is the only film to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture without being nominated in any other category. The film was remade as ''Week-End at the Waldorf'' in 1945, as Menschen im Hotel in 1959, and also served as the basis for the 1989 Tony Award-winning stage musical ''Grand Hotel''. A movie musical remake, to take place at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel, directed by Norman Jewison, was considered in 1977, and again in 1981, but eventually fell through. ''Grand Hotel'' has proven influential in the years since its original release. The line "I want to be alone", famously delivered by Greta Garbo, placed number 30 in '' AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes''. In 2007, the film was sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
