Hansen Publishing Group: 71 books

Tennessee Williams in Provincetown is the story of Tennessee Williams's four summer seasons in Provincetown, Massachusetts - 1940, '41, '44 and '47. During that time he wrote plays, short stories, and jewel-like poems. In Provincetown, Williams fell in love unguardedly for perhaps the only time in his...

The World of Tennessee Williams offers a survey of the life and career of one of America's greatest dramatists from his birth in 1911 to his death in 1983. Richard Leavitt was in a unique position to create such a volume since he was a friend of Tennessee's and followed his career closeup. Kenneth Holditch,...

An essay by film historian John DiLeo about the film The Palm Beach Story (1942) directed by Preston Sturges and starring Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert and Rudy Vallee. Excerpted from John DiLeos Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, The Palm Beach Story (1942): The Deadpan Among the Zanies....

Anna Magnani is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Anna Magnanis roles in the films The Rose Tattoo (1955) and The Fugitive Kind (1960), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides additional...

Getting to the Task, Part One includes practical exercises for class and rehearsals, techniques for analyzing a text for tasks, techniques for maintaining and deepening performances, examples from film to study, and a useful working vocabulary. It explains how other approaches might expand Stanislavskys...

Marlon Brando is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Marlon Brando's roles in the films A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and The Fugitive Kind (1960), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides...

Katharine Hepburn stars in what play at the climax of Stage Door? Can you name the classic in which a cigarette is put out in a jar of cold cream? What star (not Alan Ladd) is the top-billed male in This Gun for Hire? If you think you know classic movies, well, prepare to be challenged as never before....

Boris Karloff will forever be Frankenstein's Monster, but is that any reason for us to overlook his later great horror film Isle of the Dead (1945)? An Oscar was George Clooney's reward for Syriana (2005), but isn't the underrated war film Three Kings (1999) still his best movie? Woman of the Year (1942)...

An essay by film historian John DiLeo about the film Two Family House (2000) directed by Raymond De Felitta and starring Michael Rispoli and Katherine Narducci, Kevin Conway and Kelly Macdonald. Excerpted from John DiLeos Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, Ivy (1947): Casting Against Type....

Screen Savers II is John DiLeo's three-part grab bag of classic movies, beginning with his extensive essays about ten remarkable and underappreciated movies, as in the first Screen Savers, and representing a variety of genres and stars such as Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Ginger Rogers, and DiLeo...

Paul Newman is excerpted from Tennessee Williams and Company: His Essential Screen Actors by John DiLeo. The essay focuses on Paul Newmans roles in the films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), which are based on plays by Tennessee Williams. The author John DiLeo provides additional...

An essay by film historian John DiLeo about the film Ride the High Country (1962) directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. Excerpted from John DiLeos Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, Ride the High Country (1962): Sunset for Two Western Legends. Its easily...

Telling a Story, Part Five in the Five Approaches to Acting Series offers practical techniques for analyzing texts and performing stories within the context of a play, whether written by Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, the ancient Greeks, or Shakespeare. Telling a Story suggests strategies for actors to switch between performance and story-telling in their approach to any role.

An essay by film historian John DiLeo about the film Branded (1950) starring Alan Ladd. Excerpted from John DiLeos Screen Savers II: My Grab Bag of Classic Movies, Branded (1950): Hollywoods Little Big Man. Branded is a forgotten Technicolor western, released three years before Shane lionized Alan Ladd in the genre.