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As a script supervisor, second unit director, producer, and director, Herbert Coleman's film career spanned seven decades. Active in Hollywood from 1926 through 1988, he enjoyed a lengthy and illustrious career, highlighted by an impressive string of commercial and critical successes with one of the greats of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock.
In this memoir, Coleman describes working on such classics as The Big Clock, Carrie, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Roman Holiday. Coleman also provides vivid portraits of the many celebrated stars he worked with, including Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Alan Ladd, Ray Milland, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQueen, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as some of the greatest directors of the era, including Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler.
Above all, Coleman discusses for the first time his long working relationship with Hitchcock during the director's most creatively fertile period. Coleman provides fresh insights into the making of some of Hitchcock's most celebrated films including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. He also discusses his work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the director's long running television series.
Not only an historical record of several important and dynamic periods in Hollywood, this memoir offers intimate insight about Hitchcock and other legendary filmmaking notables. Featuring many stories that would have been lost were it not for this book, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir is sure to be of interest to film students, film buffs, and in particular to anyone fascinated by the master of suspense.
Illustrated with photos.
Published in hardcover as The Hollywood I Knew: A Memoir, 1916-1988 (0-8108-4120-7)
In this memoir, Coleman describes working on such classics as The Big Clock, Carrie, Five Graves to Cairo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Roman Holiday. Coleman also provides vivid portraits of the many celebrated stars he worked with, including Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Alan Ladd, Ray Milland, Shirley MacLaine, Steve McQueen, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as some of the greatest directors of the era, including Cecil B. DeMille, Erich von Stroheim, Billy Wilder, and William Wyler.
Above all, Coleman discusses for the first time his long working relationship with Hitchcock during the director's most creatively fertile period. Coleman provides fresh insights into the making of some of Hitchcock's most celebrated films including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, and North By Northwest. He also discusses his work on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the director's long running television series.
Not only an historical record of several important and dynamic periods in Hollywood, this memoir offers intimate insight about Hitchcock and other legendary filmmaking notables. Featuring many stories that would have been lost were it not for this book, The Man Who Knew Hitchcock: A Hollywood Memoir is sure to be of interest to film students, film buffs, and in particular to anyone fascinated by the master of suspense.
Illustrated with photos.
Published in hardcover as The Hollywood I Knew: A Memoir, 1916-1988 (0-8108-4120-7)
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Cliff Yards, West Virginia
- Chapter 2 Bluefield, West Virginia
- Chapter 3 Florida
- Chapter 4 Hollywood
- Chapter 5 Wolf Song
- Chapter 6 Fighting Caravans
- Chapter 7 Skippy
- Chapter 8 A Climb up the Ladder
- Chapter 9 The Last Outpost
- Chapter 10 Desert Gold
- Chapter 11 Poverty Row
- Chapter 12 The Outlaw
- Chapter 13 I Met Him in Paris
- Chapter 14 The Outlaw—Again
- Chapter 15 The Light That Failed
- Chapter 16 Reap the Wild Wind
- Chapter 17 Safeguarding Military Information
- Chapter 18 Beau Geste
- Chapter 19 For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Chapter 20 Five Graves to Cairo
- Chapter 21 China
- Chapter 22 Here Come the Waves and Blue Skies
- Chapter 23 Frenchman’s Creek
- Chapter 24 The Emperor’s Waltz
- Chapter 25 Calcutta
- Chapter 26 A Shoddy Tale
- Chapter 27 California
- Chapter 28 Copper Canyon
- Chapter 29 The Big Clock
- Chapter 30 The Great Gatsby
- Chapter 31 Red, Hot and Blue
- Chapter 32 Submarine Command
- Chapter 33 Branded
- Chapter 34 Carrie
- Chapter 35 Roman Holiday
- Chapter 36 Forest Lakes, Colorado
- Chapter 37 Rear Window
- Chapter 38 To Catch a Thief
- Chapter 39 The Trouble with Harry
- Chapter 40 The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Chapter 41 More Tales of The Man Who Knew Too Much
- Chapter 42 The Wrong Man
- Chapter 43 Flamingo Feather
- Chapter 44 Vertigo
- Chapter 45 No Bail for the Judge
- Chapter 46 North by Northwest
- Chapter 47 A Career Decision
- Chapter 48 Whispering Smith
- Chapter 49 Checkmate
- Chapter 50 Posse from Hell
- Chapter 51 Battle at Bloody Beach
- Chapter 52 An Unhappy Interlude
- Chapter 53 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- Chapter 54 Nevada Smith
- Chapter 55 Maya
- Chapter 56 Every Time a Heart Beats
- Chapter 57 Topaz
- Index