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Sound films emphasized black history, and benefited different genres to a greater extent than silents did. Most obviously, the musical film was born; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody (1929), and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer/director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street , 1933, Dames , 1934).
Moe Wadle, The Movie Tie-In Book: A Collectors Guide to Paperback Movie Editions, Coralville, Iowa: Nostalgia Books, 1994 Marija Dalbello-Lovric, Verbalizing Silences and the Faces: The Photoplay Novel as a Model of Popular Reading in the Silent Film Era , Paper presented at annual meeting of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing ...
These are lists of works of fiction that have been made into feature films.The title of the work and the year it was published are both followed by the work’s author and the title of the film, and the year of the film.
Movie Adaptation Database, UC Berkeley Media Resources Center; The history of Erich von Stroheim's Greed, from welcometosilentmovies.com; The Art of Adaptation from hollywoodlitsales.com; Hutcheon, Linda, with Siobhan O’Flynn. A Theory of Adaptation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2013. Leitch, Thomas (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies.
First movie with African-American interracial marriage: One Potato, Two Potato, [81] actors Bernie Hamilton and Barbara Barrie, written by Orville H. Hampton, Raphael Hayes, directed by Larry Peerce First African-American man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor : Sidney Poitier ( Lilies of the Field , 1963) (See also: James Baskett , 1948)
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2007), Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter The Monuments Men (2014) The Mountain Road (1958), Theodore H. White: The Mountain Road (1961) The Mothman Prophecies (1975), John Keel: The Mothman Prophecies (2002) A Night to Remember (1955), Walter Lord: A Night ...
Pocket Books were not available in book stores because they did not carry magazines. Pocket Books established the format for all subsequent paperback publishers in the 1940s. The books measured 6.5" by 4.25" (16.5 cm by 10.8 cm), had full-color covers, and cost 25 cents. Eventually in the 1950s the height increased by 0.5" (1.4 cm) to 7" (18 cm).
Ballantine Books (a division of Random House) acquired most of Fawcett Books in 1982 (Popular was sold to Warner Communications [20]) it inherited a mass market paperback list with such authors as William Bernhardt, Amanda Cross, Stephen Frey, P. D. James, William X. Kienzle, Anne Perry, Daniel Silva, Peter Straub and Margaret Truman. [21]