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Author Mank, Gregory W., author.

Title The very witching time of night : dark alleys of classic horror cinema / Gregory William Mank.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

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 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  791.4361 MANK    Check Shelf
Description vii, 436 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "A very lonely soul": a tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler -- Mad Jack unleashed: Svengali and the mad genius -- Paramount horrors: Murders in the zoo -- The mystery of Lionel Atwill: an interview with the son of the late, great horror star -- James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the riding whip: the real-life horror story of the censorship of Universal's One more river -- "Baby-scarer!" Boris karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939 -- Libel and old lace -- Production diaries: Cat people and The curse of the cat people -- Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man revisited -- Horror propaganda: Hitler's madman -- John Carradine and his "traveling circus" -- Shock! theatre, the "half-witch and "half-fairy" and Dr. Lucifer -- Junior Laemmle, horror's "crown prince" producer.
Summary "The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law, to a tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Horror films -- Production and direction -- United States.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Chandler, Helen, 1906-1965.
Laemmle, Carl, 1867-1939.
ISBN 9780786449552 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786449551 (softcover : alk. paper)
9781476615431 (ebook)
Standard No. 40023903679
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