A NOSTALGIC, ENTERTAINING, FACT-FILLED GUIDE TO YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOTION PICTURES OF THE LAST FIFTY YEARS!
Who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars? What year was The Jazz Singer released? Who was the director of American Graffiti? What movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1939? Who was chosen Best Actor? Best Supporting Actress?
You'll find the answer to these and literally thousands of other questions in this comprehensive, up-to-date, and authoritative reference guide to over 1000 best-loved films of the Sound Era, from The Jazz Singer through the hits of early 1979. Each entry is arranged by title and includes its own still from the motion picture, showing the great Hollywood stars, past and present, in their most memorable roles. Here, you'll also find a complete cast list, all production credits, interesting sidelights, and other pertinent information on the film. A special feature includes a complete listing of Oscar-winning films, stars, and directors for every year in the history of the Academy Awards from 1927 through The Deer Hunter.
The only single source and reference of its kind, THE GREAT AMERICAN MOVIE BOOK supplies a wealth of information, memories, fun, and entertainment for the movie fan, the nostalgia buff, the serious film student, the browser, and the person who simply wants to settle an argument or satisfy his or her curiosity.
Anyone who has ever been moved to laughter or tears by the magic spell of the movies—and who hasn't?—will delight in this invaluable tribute to America's greatest and most glamorous industry.
PAUL MICHAEL, Editor-in-Chief, is the author of two internationally acclaimed volumes of motion picture history, The Academy Awards: A Pictorial History and Humphrey Bogart: The Man and His Films. He was also the award-winning producer of Two long-run off-Broadway hits—"The Time of the Cuckoo" and "A Clearing in the Woods"—managing editor of the newspaper Show Business, and editor of Broadway News and Reviews.
Portions of this book were previously published under the titles The American Movies Reference Book: The Sound Era and American Movies: A Pictorial Encyclopedia.