Vincente Minnelli
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Vincente Minnelli

Hollywood's Dark Dreamer

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Vincente Minnelli

Hollywood's Dark Dreamer

About this book

Vincente Minnelli, Hollywood's Dark Dreamer is the first full-length biography of Vincente Minnelli, one of the most legendary and influential directors in the twentieth century, encompassing his life, his art, and his artistry. Minnelli started out as a set and costume designer in New York, where he first notably applied his aesthetic principles to the Broadway stage design of Scheherazade. He became the first director of New York's Radio City Music Hall, as well as some of the most lavish Broadway musicals, including Ziegfeld Follies, and brought Josephine Baker back from Paris to star in his shows. As a film director, he discovered Lena Horne in a Harlem nightclub and cast her in his first movie, the legendary musical Cabin in the Sky. The winner of the Director Oscar for Gigi, the first film to win in all nine of its Oscar nominations, Minnelli directed such classics as the Oscar-winning An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis, Father of the Bride, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Some Came Running. He was married to Judy Garland, who he met on the set of Meet Me in St. Louis and directed in such landmark films as The Clock; their daughter is actress-singer Liza Minnelli.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Introduction and Acknowledgments
  4. Prelude
  5. One - Childhood
  6. Two - Chicago
  7. Three - Radio City Music Hall
  8. Four - New York, New York
  9. Five - Broadway
  10. Six - Hollywood: Early Years
  11. Seven - The First Peak: Meet Me in St. Louis
  12. Eight - A Fresh Look at Old Genres: Ziegfeld Follies and The Clock
  13. Nine - Falling in Love
  14. Ten - Husband and Father
  15. Eleven - The Great Debacle: The Pirate
  16. Twelve - Scandalous Melodrama: Madame Bovary
  17. Thirteen - Problems with Judy
  18. Fourteen - An American in Paris
  19. Fifteen - Minnelli’s Masterpieces: The Bad and the Beautiful and The Band Wagon
  20. Sixteen - Minnelli Loves Lucy
  21. Seventeen - Up and Down: Contract Director
  22. Eighteen - Personal Films: Lust for Life and Tea and Sympathy
  23. Nineteen - The Height of His Career: Gigi
  24. Twenty - Master of Melodramas: Some Came Running and Home from the Hill
  25. Twenty-one - The Party Is Over
  26. Twenty-two - Being Idle
  27. Twenty-three - Life Is a Cabaret
  28. Twenty-four - The Swan Song
  29. Conclusion - Minnelli’s Legacy
  30. ALSO BY EMANUEL LEVY
  31. Notes
  32. Index
  33. Copyright Page