Vincente Minnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer
by Emanuel Levy
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The first full-length biography of Vincente Minnelli, one of Hollywood's most legendary and influential directors, encompassing his life, his career, and his art. Minnelli began his career as an innovative set and costume designer in New York. He became the first director of Radio City Music Hall and designed the Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, bringing Josephine Baker back from Paris to star. As a film director, he discovered Lena Horne in a Harlem nightclub and cast her in his first movie, the show more risky all-black musical Cabin in the Sky. After winning the Best Director Oscar for Gigi, the first film to sweep all nine of its nominations, he directed such classics as the An American in Paris and Meet Me in St. Louis, where he met his future wife Judy Garland. Levy's extensive research and readable style make this a thorough yet vivid biography.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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Emanuel Levy is a professor of film and sociology, who has taught at Wellesley College, Arizona State University, Columbia University, UCLA, and New York University, and is the author of nine books. A two-time president of the L.A. Film Critics Association, he worked as senior critic for Variety and chief film critic for Screen International show more before founding the acclaimed website www.emanuellevy.com. He has served on the grand juries of fifty-four international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Montral, Locarno, Taormina, San Francisco, and Sundance. show less
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- Vincente Minnelli
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- The evening of March 20, 1952, when that year's Academy Awards were presented at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, had special meaning for Vincente Minnelli as a director and man. He had been nominated for the Best Direc... (show all)tor award for An American in Paris, which had received he Best Picture nomination. All his life he had been waiting for this moment, and the timing could not have been better since he had just gone through some frustrating years in his career and a divorce from Judy Garland, in 1951, which turned out to be nastier and uglier than necessary. -Prelude
Vincente Minnelli's showbiz career must have been preordained. He was literally born in the trunk, as Judy Garland, his future wife-actress, would famously sing in her 1954 movie, A Star Is Born. - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 791.4302
- Canonical LCC
- PN1998.M56
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+, Music
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- 791.4302 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures Standard subdivisions
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- PN1998 .M56 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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