I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History (Electronic book text)


This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywoods true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirischs company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven. His work has led to eighty-seven Academy Award nominations and twenty-eight Oscars. Illustrated with rare photographs from his personal collection, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History reveals Mirischs own experience of Hollywood in its golden days and tells the stories of the starsemerging and establishedwho appeared in his films, including Natlie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. With hard-won insight and gentle humor, Mirisch recounts how he witnessed the end of the studio system, the development of independent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywoods most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. A producer with a passion for creative excellence, he offers insights into his innovative filmmaking process, revealing a rare ingenuity for placating the demands of auteur directors, weak-kneed studio executives, and troubled screen sirens. From his early start as a movie theater usher to the presentation of such masterpieces as The Apartment, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Great Escape, Mirisch tells the inspiring life story of his climb to the highest echelon of the American film industry. This book assures Mirischs legacyas Elmore Leonard puts itas one of the good guys.

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This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywoods true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirischs company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven. His work has led to eighty-seven Academy Award nominations and twenty-eight Oscars. Illustrated with rare photographs from his personal collection, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History reveals Mirischs own experience of Hollywood in its golden days and tells the stories of the starsemerging and establishedwho appeared in his films, including Natlie Wood, John Wayne, Peter Sellers, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Sidney Poitier, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, and many others. With hard-won insight and gentle humor, Mirisch recounts how he witnessed the end of the studio system, the development of independent production, and the rise and fall of some of Hollywoods most gifted (and notorious) cultural icons. A producer with a passion for creative excellence, he offers insights into his innovative filmmaking process, revealing a rare ingenuity for placating the demands of auteur directors, weak-kneed studio executives, and troubled screen sirens. From his early start as a movie theater usher to the presentation of such masterpieces as The Apartment, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Great Escape, Mirisch tells the inspiring life story of his climb to the highest echelon of the American film industry. This book assures Mirischs legacyas Elmore Leonard puts itas one of the good guys.

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University of Wisconsin Press

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United States

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April 2009

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468

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978-6612697494

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6612697490



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