Movie Star Chronicles: A Visual History of the World’s Greatest Movie Stars
Paperback
Written by Ian Haydn Smith
Forward by David Gordon Green
Firefly Books
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Paul Newman was a radioman-gunner in WWII. Afterword, he studied at the Actor’s Studio under Lee Strasburg. He worked on a bunch of TV shows before starring in his first film, The Silver Chalice, in 1954. Richard Dreyfuss’s Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, have earned 2 billion and 1.2 billion dollars respectively worldwide (to-date gross – adjusted for inflation). The last movie Marilyn Monroe was working on, Something’s Gotta Give, with Dean Martin was scrapped because of her drug and mental issues. Movie Star Chronicles: A Visual History of the World’s Greatest Movie Stars by Ian Haydn Smith provides you with this kind of info and more. Smith got some well qualified contributors together to compile this list of 330 actors, both modern and days past, that embody (to them) what truly makes a star.
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