GOLDSMITH, Warren [steve McQueen; Julie Andrews; Dick Van Dyke; Lucille Ball; Natalie Wood; Warren Beatty; Joan Crawford; et al.].
Film Fame.
First Edition of Warren Goldsmith's Film Fame; Signed by Steve McQueen, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, and thirty-two other actors and actresses
Beverly Hills, California: Fame Publishing, 1966.
$3,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-149124
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First edition of this collection of one hundred actors and actresses that transformed cinema into a defining form of twentieth-century mass entertainment. Imperial octavo, custom bound half-cloth with green boards, illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Boldly signed or inscribed "To Tony" in felt tip on the actors and actresses respective entry pages, including Steve McQueen, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, Lucille Ball, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Joan Crawford and thirty others. In very good condition.
Warren Goldsmith’s Film Fame is an early critical exploration of Hollywood’s rise, examining how cinema rapidly elevated performers into icons who embodied the glamour and aspirations of twentieth-century popular culture. By tracing the emergence of the star system, Goldsmith highlights how actors and actresses became central to both the artistry and the marketing of film, a process that later extended to widely recognized figures such as Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke—whose wholesome screen personae in Mary Poppins epitomized family entertainment—as well as Lucille Ball, who parlayed her comedic brilliance into enduring cultural influence through television. Similarly, the screen charisma of Steve McQueen, with his anti-heroic cool, and the versatility of Natalie Wood, moving between child stardom and adult roles, illustrate the diverse ways in which performers came to embody shifting ideals of modern identity.
Film Fame.
$3,500.00
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