Clarence Brown : Hollywood's forgotten master /

"Gwenda Young's "Clarence Brown: Hollywood's Forgotten Master" is an in-depth analysis of the life and films of Clarence Brown. After tracing Brown's lineage from hardworking parents and resilient grandparents, it presents his films in a way that captures and holds read...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Young, Gwenda (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2018
Series:Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Subjects:
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • A Brown boy
  • The master's apprentice
  • Brown goes to war ... and returns to Tourneur
  • Striking out : the light in the dark and Don't Marry for Money
  • Early years at Universal
  • Brown and the Universal women
  • Brown at United Artists
  • Brown meets Garbo : flesh and the devil
  • On the trail of '98
  • An "uplifting" film : adapting The Green Hat
  • Transition to sound : Wonder of Women and Navy Blues
  • A year with Garbo
  • Starmaker
  • Devotion and deceit : Emma and Letty Lynton
  • Service and passion
  • Back with Crawford
  • Reunited : Garbo, Brown, and Anna Karenina
  • Going home : Ah Wilderness!
  • Back to the formula : Wife vs. Secretary, The Gorgeous Hussy, and Love on the Run
  • Conquest
  • A little piece of humanity : Of Human Hearts
  • Foreign affairs : Idiot's Delight and The Rains Came
  • Inventions and conventions : Edison the Man, Come Live with Me, and They Met in Bombay
  • Representing the war front at Home and Away : The Human Comedy and The White Cliffs of Dover
  • Velvet and the pie : National Velvet
  • A year with The Yearling
  • Songs and the South : Song of Love and Intruder in the Dust
  • The twilight of a career
  • Slow fade-out : Brown in retirement.