Jeanine Basinger
Born
February 03, 1936
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Hollywood: The Oral History
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11 editions
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2022
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The Star Machine
9 editions
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2007
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Silent Stars
12 editions
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1999
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The Movie Musical!
4 editions
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2019
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A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
15 editions
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1993
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I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies
4 editions
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2013
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The It's a Wonderful Life Book
10 editions
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published
1986
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Anthony Mann
8 editions
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1979
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The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre
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6 editions
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1986
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American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking
4 editions
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1994
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“Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there was Depression, poverty, war, death, and loss. Audiences then were willing to pretend, to enter into a game of escape. No one really thought that the world was like a Deanna Durbin movie, they just wanted to pretend it was for about an hour and a half.”
― The Star Machine
― The Star Machine
“Why would everyone - in both the movie business and the audience - want to avoid the label "marriage"? Marriage was presumably everybody's business. People were either born into one, born outside of one, living in one, living outside of one, trying to woo someone into one, divorced from one, trying to get divorced from one, reading about one, dreaming about one, or just observing one from afar. For most people, it would be the central event - the biggest decision - of their lives. Marriage was the poor man's trip to Paris and the shopgirl's final goal. At the very least, it was a common touchstone. Unlike a fantasy film or a sci-fi adventure, a marriage story didn't have to be explained or defined. Unlike a western or a gangster plot, it didn't have to find a connection to bring a jolt of emotional recognition to an audience. Marriage was out there, free to be used and presented to people who knew what the deal was.”
― I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies
― I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies
“Julie Andrews was in many ways an unpredictable actress for Americans to embrace. She has about her a let鈥檚-get-this-done quality that doesn鈥檛 exude warmth. She can be chilly. Her singing style is efficient. She does get the job done and does not slobber a song鈥檚 lyrics, nor does she beat the emotions of the words to death. Her greatest asset is the clarity of her diction. No matter what she sings, every word is perfectly enunciated, and that draws an audience to her. She really cares that they know what she鈥檚 鈥渟aying鈥 in her song. There is a careful perfection to her work, a precision to both her songs and her dances that says 鈥淚 am a professional.鈥 Andrews could make it look effortless. She skimmed through whatever she was given to do, but without making it trivial; she made it easy, but real. Her main asset, of course, is a fabulous voice, but it鈥檚 combined with acting ability, intelligence, and an understanding of what is needed from her that never fails. She seems honest, and that is a characteristic that Americans always value.”
― The Movie Musical!
― The Movie Musical!
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