Up From Central Park

By Alan Mowbray Jr.

Get Me Alan Mowbray!If you watched Robert Altman's award-winning 2001 film "Gosford Park," you may recall the scene where Morris Wiesman the Hollywood film director, shouts into the telephone: "Get Me Alan Mowbray," after being asked by his producer what he needed most to make the film "Charley Chan in London" successful. For almost half a century the phrase "Get me Alan Mowbray" was a familiar demand by many a movie maker hoping to cast the perfect actor in a pivotal in a film. Alan Mowbray was a British-born actor whose popularity with movie fans has endured to the present day, thanks to cable TV networks. His movies are being seen again by those who fondly remember his work in film, and by a new generation of viewers who are enjoying his work for the first time. He appeared on Broadway in a series of plays in the late nineteen twenties, before succumbing to the lure of Hollywood, where he appeared in nearly two hundred films spanning the nineteen thirties, forties, fifties and sixties. With nine other actors, he founded the Screen Actors Guild in 1933. As the epitome of the "British stiff-upper-lip" school, he was much in demand, making as many as four or five moving pictures a year.for over forty years. His last movie appearance was in "A Majority of One" (1961) with Alec Guiness and Rosalind Russell. He died in Hollywood at the age of 73 in 1969. So, these are 'Scenes From An Actor's Life', with added 'dialogue' (stories, photos, fan magazine interviews) spnning the 'Golden Age' of film history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1468141171
• ISBN13: 9781468141177
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"