Life Goes To The Movies

By Time-Life Books

Book Overview

Life Goes To The Movies This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517625857
• ISBN13: 9780517625859
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A love affair with fantasy

This book may be difficult to find since it's out of print. And it's definitely one that's entertaining and interesting enough to warrant re-publication.It's about a rare and distant world -- a world where movie stars were glamorous and remote, held high on pedestals and expected to be more beautiful, more exciting and much, much more exotic that everyday folks. They were seen as always perfectly coiffed and smiling, loved and treasured, surrounded by adoring sycophants.Back then movies were larger-than-life stories that had little to do with actual living and a lot to do with romantic (even sentimental) entertainment. Movie makers seemed to be having as good a time making movies as audiences had watching them. And according to this book, they were! It was a win/win world.The volume is divided into three chapters: "The Stars," "The Buildup," "The Movies," "The Studio" and "Behind the Scenes'" reprinting highlights of magazine coverage of the movie industry from 1935 to 1972 (when sex and violence took over and people who loved movies for entertainment quite going to theaters). It's fair to say the book is a mirror of the successes and failure of both Life magazine and movies. It's a fabulous collection of romance and romantics. If you remember the Old Hollywood, this book is for you.

The Bold and the Beautiful

This 1975 "coffee table" book is just what you'd expect--and that's why I recommend it. The focus is on the famous: Great big photos of silver screen idols from the silent days through the studio era and beyond. There's a bit of history (mostly tangential to the people making the movies), a little scandal, good "behind the scenes" images and facts, and some attention to non-American film, but this is mostly the public face of Hollywood. "Life Goes to the Movies" features an outstanding collection of large format photos, many of them familiar (although many of them will be new to readers). The overriding spirit is a celebration, not of "film," but of what fans know and love as the "movies."