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Books by Cari Beauchamp






Joseph P. Kennedy Presents(1st Edition)
His Hollywood Years (Vintage)
by Cari Beauchamp
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47522-0, ISBN: 0-307-47522-0

"Joseph P. Kennedy’s reputation as a savvy businessman, diplomat, and sly political patriarch is well-documented.  But his years as a Hollywood mogul have never been fully explored until now.  In Joseph P. Kennedy Presents, Cari Beauchamp brilliantly explores this unknown chapter in Kennedy’s biography.  Between 1926 and 1930, Kennedy positioned himself as a major Hollywood player. In two short years, he was running three studios simulta ..."






Without Lying Down(Updated)
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by Cari Beauchamp
Paperback, 475 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21492-7, ISBN: 0-520-21492-7

"Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter - male or female - for almost three decades. She was the first woman to twice win an Academy Award for screenwriting. From 1916 to 1946 she wrote over two hundred scripts covering every conceivable genre for stars such as Mary Pickford, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, Marion Davies, Rudolph Valentino, Clark Gable, Marion Davies, Rudolph Valentino, Clark Gable, and Marie Dressler. Irving ..."






Joseph P. Kennedy Presents
His Hollywood Years
by Cari Beauchamp
Hardcover, 528 Pages, Published 2009 by Knopf
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4000-1, ISBN: 1-4000-4000-0

"This is the extraordinary story, told for the first time, of Joseph P. Kennedy’s remarkable reign in Hollywood, in which he ran three movie studios simultaneously, led the revolution in sound pictures—and made the fortune that became the foundation of his empire.Kennedy saw filmmaking as “a gold mine” when movies were an idea one week, in front of the camera the next, and in theaters within the month.It was 1919; Kennedy was thirty-one ..."






Anita Loos Rediscovered(1st Edition)
Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
by Mary Anita Loos, Cari Beauchamp, Anita Loos
Hardcover, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22894-8, ISBN: 0-520-22894-4

"Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film treatments, short stories, and one-act plays spans fifty years of her creative writing and showcases the breadth and depth of her talent. Beginning in 1912 with the stories she submitted from her San Diego home (some made into films by D.W. Griffit ..."






Hollywood on the Riviera(1st Edition)
The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival
by Cari Beauchamp, Henri Behar, Beauchamp /. Behar
Hardcover, 491 Pages, Published 1992 by William Morrow & Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-688-11007-9, ISBN: 0-688-11007-X

"Includes interviews with more than one hundred Cannes insiders to provide a glimpse into the annual Cannes Film Festival, where everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Grace Kelly have converged during this international summit for the movies."






Back Street
Vintage Movie Classics
by Fannie Hurst, Cari Beauchamp
Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-8041-7067-3, ISBN: 0-8041-7067-3

"The bestselling story behind Ross Hunter’s classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin.  When “fly girl” and gorgeous socialite Ray Schmidt first meets Walter Saxel in Cincinnati, their attraction is instant and everlasting. As their bond deepens, Ray finds herself envisioning a future with Walter, until one fateful day when the settling of her family affairs interferes with their plans to meet, and his relationship with ano ..."






My First Time in Hollywood
by Cari Beauchamp
Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2015 by Asahina & Wallace
ISBN-13: 978-1-940412-14-6, ISBN: 1-940412-14-5

"Over forty legends of the film business recount their first trip to Hollywood. Actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors-half of them women-recall the long joinery, their initial impressions, their struggle to find work, and the love for making movies that kept them going. Drawn from letters, speeches, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies-and illustrated with over sixty vintage photographs and illustrations ..."






From Latin America to Hollywood
Latino Film Culture in Los Angeles, 1967-2017
by Cari Beauchamp
Paperback, 151 Pages, Published 2016 by Academy Film Archive
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-91132-7, ISBN: 0-692-91132-4

"From the earliest days of Hollywood, through the transition to sound and the expansion of national cinemas, this volume examines such themes as the cinematic influences of Cinema Novo and the evolution of the Chicano Film Movement, the ..."






Joseph P. Kennedy Presents(Unabridged)
His Hollywood Years
by Cari Beauchamp, Pam Ward
Cd, 2 Pages, Published 2009 by Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Hörbuch, Mp3-Audio, Sacd, Ungekürzte Ausgabe
ISBN-13: 978-1-4332-6109-1, ISBN: 1-4332-6109-X

"The first book to tell the extraordinary history of Joseph P. Kennedys reign in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930, during which time he simultaneously ran three movie studios; led the revolution in sound pictures and created the first modern entertainment empire that became the blueprint for contemporary Hollywood. Beauchamp writes about the pictures Kennedy produced, the stars he made and destroyed and the men who did his bidding. She also w ..."






Without Lying Down
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by Cari Beauchamp
Published 1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-614-28027-2, ISBN: 0-614-28027-3






Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary - Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
by Valeria Belletti, Cari Beauchamp, Sam Goldwyn
Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24551-8, ISBN: 0-520-24551-2

"Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary is an insider’s view of the film studios of the 1920s—and the first from a secretary’s perspective. Rich in gossip, it is also an eyewitness report of Hollywood in transition. In the summer of 1924, Valeria Belletti and her friend Irma visited California, but instead of returning home to New York, the twenty-six-year-old Valeria decided to stay in Los Angeles. She moved into the YWCA, landed a job as ..."






Joseph P. Kennedy Presents
His Hollywood Years
by Cari Beauchamp
Published 2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4332-6111-4, ISBN: 1-4332-6111-1






Without Lying Down(1st Edition)
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by Cari Beauchamp
Hardcover, 475 Pages, Published 1997 by A Lisa Drew Book, Scribner
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80213-8, ISBN: 0-684-80213-9

"Screenwriter Frances Marion (1888-1973) is the central subject of this excellent book, but mega-star Mary Pickford, journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, bit-player-turned-gossip-columnist Hedda Hopper, and other high-powered female friends get nearly equal time. The author's skillful mix of biography with Hollywood history results in a densely textured portrait of an industry in formation and the intelligent, ambitious women who seized th ..."






Joseph P. Kennedy Presents His Hollywood Years
[With Earbuds]
by Cari Beauchamp, Pam Ward
Aparelho De Áudio Digital Pré-Carregado, Published 2009 by Findaway World
ISBN-13: 978-1-4332-6113-8, ISBN: 1-4332-6113-8






Joseph P. Kennedy Presents
by Cari Beauchamp
512 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-27129-7, ISBN: 0-307-27129-3

"Yet he had failed to sell R-C or package it to create a mega-company and now he found himself fighting just to be heard. ... As he began to realize his days were numbered, Cole asked if he could at least take over foreign distribution or be ... for several y ars when he joined forces with the tiny German immigrant Carl Laemmle to form Universal Pictures in 1912. ... At least once, police were called in to break up a brawl between “ ..."






Without Lying Down
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by Cari Beauchamp
475 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92138-2, ISBN: 0-520-92138-0

"... mobility of expression” and took some casual but stunning photos of her that helped convince MGM they might have something in “the Swede” after all.” Yet if she wasn't being posed for publicity stills, she sat waiting “because they didn't know what to do with her,” recalls Jack Gilbert's daughter Leatrice. “Was she a glamour girl? A wounded innocent? The long suffering heroine? They didn't know what they had.” So Garbo tolerate ..."






Without Lying down
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
by Cari Beauchamp
Published 1998
ISBN-13: 978-1-283-42254-3, ISBN: 1-283-42254-9






Eighty Odd Years in Hollywood
Memoir of a Career in Film and Television
by John Meredyth Lucas, Cari Beauchamp
Paperback, 313 Pages, Published 2004 by Mcfarland & Co Inc Pub
Illustrated
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-1838-1, ISBN: 0-7864-1838-9

"John Meredyth Lucas, son of silent screen star and screenwriter Bess Meredyth (Ben-Hur, The Sea Beast, When a Man Loves, Don Juan) and stepson of renowned Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Life with Father), came of age in Hollywood during the 1930s. Lucas went on to an impressive career of his own as a writer-producer-director. He made films with Hal Wallis, Ross Hunter, Walt Disne ..."






My First Time in Hollywood(Annotated)
by Beauchamp, Cari
Trade Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 2020 by Chaise Lounge Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-73619-810-0, ISBN: 1-73619-810-6






Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary(1st Edition)
Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s
by Valeria Belletti, Cari Beauchamp, Sam Goldwyn Jr., Beauchamp Belletti
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-24780-2, ISBN: 0-520-24780-9

""Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary" is an insider's view of the film studios of the 1920s - and the first from a secretary's perspective. Rich in gossip, it is also an eyewitness report of Hollywood in transition. In the summer of 1924, Valeria Belletti and her friend Irma visited California, but instead of returning home to New York, the twenty-six-year-old Valeria decided to stay in Los Angeles. She moved into the YWCA, landed a job ..."



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