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Sinatra in Hollywood - 9780312362263, Tom Santopietro, hardcover
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780312362263
- Book Title
- Sinatra in Hollywood
- Item Length
- 9.6in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 28.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
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Hollywood legend, Academy Award--winning actor, and recipient of the Golden Globe Award for lifetime achievement in film, Frank Sinatra carved out one of the biggest careers in the history of Hollywood, yet paradoxically his screen legacy has been overshadowed by his extraordinary achievements as a singer and recording artist. Until now. With the publication of Sinatra in Hollywood, an analytical yet deeply personal look at the screen legend of Frank Sinatra, Sinatra's standing as a significant, indeed legendary, screen actor has now been placed in full perspective. Examining each of Sinatra's seventy film appearances in depth, Tom Santopietro traces the arc of his astonishing six-decade run as a film actor, from his rise to stardom in "boy next door" musical films like Anchors Aweigh and On the Town , through his fall from grace with legendary flops like The Kissing Bandit, to the near-mythic comeback with his Oscar-winning performance in From Here to Eternity. Laced throughout with Sinatra's own observations on his film work, Sinatra in Hollywood deals head-on with his tumultuous marriages to Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow and directly addresses the rumors of Mob involvement in Sinatra's Hollywood career. Ranging from the specifics of his controversial acting nickname of One Take Charlie to the iconic Rat Pack film Ocean's Eleven , from the groundbreaking performance in The Manchurian Candidate to the moving and elegiac late-career roles as tough yet vulnerable detectives, the myths and personal foibles are stripped away, placing the focus squarely on the work. Oftentimes brilliant, occasionally off-kilter, but always compelling, Frank Sinatra, the film icon who registered as nothing less than emblematic of "The American Century," here receives his full due as the serious artist he was, the actor about whom director Billy Wilder emphatically stated, "Frank Sinatra is beyond talent."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312362269
ISBN-13
9780312362263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66171508
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sinatra in Hollywood
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
28.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml420.S565s26 2008
Reviews
Advance Praise for Sinatra in Hollywood: "It's high time someone wrote a serious book about Frank Sinatra's significant movie career. With his knowledge of both movies and music, Tom Santopietro has put one of the biggest careers in Hollywood film history in full perspective. Sinatra's acting talent should be discussed alongside his amazing achievements in music, and this book lays a solid foundation for that process." ---Jeanine Basinger, author of The Star Machine Praise for Considering Doris Day: "This book offers serious insight into a relatively neglected life. The observations are apt---and often bold." --- The Atlantic "Santopietro proves himself a serious and insightful critic." --- Library Journal "Extremely acute in his critiques, Santopietro is also devastatingly witty." --- The Globe and Mail "This highly readable book follows her remarkable career and offers readers an intimate glimpse of this extraordinary woman." --- Tucson Citizen "A vibrant portrait of the artist and the woman." -- Publishers Weekly "Santopietro concentrates on her multifaceted career. He is sympathetic to women and knowledgeable about his subject, and his respect for her is refreshing." --- The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice), Advance Praise for Sinatra in Hollywood: "It's high time someone wrote a serious book about Frank Sinatra's significant movie career. With his knowledge of both movies and music, Tom Santopietro has put one of the biggest careers in Hollywood film history in full perspective. Sinatra's acting talent should be discussed alongside his amazing achievements in music, and this book lays a solid foundation for that process." ---Jeanine Basinger, author of The Star Machine Praise for Considering Doris Day: "This book offers serious insight into a relatively neglected life. The observations are apt---and often bold." --- The Atlantic "Santopietro proves himself a serious and insightful critic." --- Library Journal "Extremely acute in his critiques, Santopietro is also devastatingly witty." --- The Globe and Mail "This highly readable book follows her remarkable career and offers readers an intimate glimpse of this extraordinary woman." --- Tucson Citizen "A vibrant portrait of the artist and the woman." -- Publishers Weekly "Santopietro concentrates on her multifaceted career. He is sympathetic to women and knowledgeable about his subject, and his respect for her is refreshing." --- The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice), The king of the saloon singers was a top-notch actor.when he cared to be. So argues Santopietro (Considering Doris Day, 2007, etc.), who proves an ideal guide to Ol' Blue Eyes' spotty career as a screen actor. Combining a fan's ardor and enthusiasm with keen critical insight, he convincingly makes the case for Sinatra as a major acting talent while taking the famously mercurial entertainer to task for wasting his prodigious gifts on frivolous projects. In conversational prose, Santopietro covers Sinatra's family life, romances and recording career as they relate to his picture making, demonstrating an encyclopedic knowledge of every theatrical and television film's production details. The author analyzes each movie, often scene-by-scene, wittily explaining what works, what doesn't and why. Clunkers like The Kissing Bandit receive the same close attention as triumphs like On the Town and The Man with the Golden Arm, the better to fully explicate the evolution of Sinatra's craft and attitude toward the medium. Santopietro is engagingly thoughtful about the sources of the Sinatra mystique. He draws intriguing parallels between the singer's storied insistence on "one take" and his neurotic drive to banish boredom and loneliness. The author relates Sinatra's distinctively snappy way with a line of dialogue to his masterly phrasing of lyrics as a singer. Readers less inclined to this sort of Actors Studio musing will content themselves with irresistible gossip about Sinatra and various Hollywood legends, plus an authoritative accounts of the glory days of the MGM musicals that cemented Sinatra's screen stardom. Film buffs will find much to savor as well. The section on The Manchurian Candidate, for example, illuminates the greatness of that strange film and of Sinatra's performance. The Rat Pack, the Mafia, the washouts and comebacks.every aspect of the legend is intelligently addressed, but Santopietro's interest is in Sinatra's work. In the final analysis, that's what fascinates.A terrifically lucid and entertaining look at an undervalued area of Sinatra's achievement., The king of the saloon singers was a top-notch actor…when he cared to be. So argues Santopietro (Considering Doris Day, 2007, etc.), who proves an ideal guide to Ol' Blue Eyes' spotty career as a screen actor. Combining a fan's ardor and enthusiasm with keen critical insight, he convincingly makes the case for Sinatra as a major acting talent while taking the famously mercurial entertainer to task for wasting his prodigious gifts on frivolous projects. In conversational prose, Santopietro covers Sinatra's family life, romances and recording career as they relate to his picture making, demonstrating an encyclopedic knowledge of every theatrical and television film's production details. The author analyzes each movie, often scene-by-scene, wittily explaining what works, what doesn't and why. Clunkers like The Kissing Bandit receive the same close attention as triumphs like On the Town and The Man with the Golden Arm, the better to fully explicate the evolution of Sinatra's craft and at, Advance Praise forSinatra in Hollywood: "It's high time someone wrote a serious book about Frank Sinatra's significant movie career. With his knowledge of both movies and music, Tom Santopietro has put one of the biggest careers in Hollywood film history in full perspective. Sinatra's acting talent should be discussed alongside his amazing achievements in music, and this book lays a solid foundation for that process." ---Jeanine Basinger, author ofThe Star Machine Praise forConsidering Doris Day: "This book offers serious insight into a relatively neglected life. The observations are apt---and often bold." ---The Atlantic"Santopietro proves himself a serious and insightful critic." ---Library Journal"Extremely acute in his critiques, Santopietro is also devastatingly witty." ---The Globe and Mail"This highly readable book follows her remarkable career and offers readers an intimate glimpse of this extraordinary woman." ---TucsonCitizen"A vibrant portrait of the artist and the woman." --Publishers Weekly"Santopietro concentrates on her multifaceted career. He is sympathetic to women and knowledgeable about his subject, and his respect for her is refreshing." ---The New York Times Book Review(Editor's Choice), The king of the saloon singers was a top-notch actor...when he cared to be. So argues Santopietro (Considering Doris Day, 2007, etc.), who proves an ideal guide to Ol' Blue Eyes' spotty career as a screen actor. Combining a fan's ardor and enthusiasm with keen critical insight, he convincingly makes the case for Sinatra as a major acting talent while taking the famously mercurial entertainer to task for wasting his prodigious gifts on frivolous projects. In conversational prose, Santopietro covers Sinatra's family life, romances and recording career as they relate to his picture making, demonstrating an encyclopedic knowledge of every theatrical and television film's production details. The author analyzes each movie, often scene-by-scene, wittily explaining what works, what doesn't and why. Clunkers like The Kissing Bandit receive the same close attention as triumphs like On the Town and The Man with the Golden Arm, the better to fully explicate the evolution of Sinatra's craft and at, *Starred Review* Countless books have been written about Frank Sinatra, though they typically focus on his music or broad biography. Santopietro (Considering Doris Day) directs his attention to Sinatra's film career with great success. This work is both highly readable and extensively researched, providing an absorbing look at Sinatra's part-time career. Santopietro has crafted a straightforward appreciation of Sinatra's roles, his growth as an actor, and his personal and professional relationships with the men and women he worked on-screen with, thus producing a book that should guarantee a wide readership. This is the second book to be released this year about Sinatra's film work; Karen McNally's When Frankie Went to Hollywood more specifically counterpoints Sinatra's film roles with his influence on male identity in the 1940s and 1950s, and she presents a more academic approach both in content and in writing style. Taking a thorough interest in all of Sinatra's films, successful and
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2008-024941
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/8092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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