2 options
42nd Street / edited with an introd. by Rocco Fumento.
LIBRA PN1997 .F596
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Rian, 1899-1953.
- Seymour, James, author.
- Series:
- Wisconsin/Warner Bros. screenplay series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 196 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : Published for the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research by University of Wisconsin Press, 1980.
- Summary:
- This screenplay of "42nd Street," along with Rocco Fumento's thorough and engrossing introduction, takes the reader behind the scenes to see how the Warners studio took a dismal novel and, working within severe financial constraints brought on by the Great Depression, turned out a smash musical hit. "42nd Street "is a watershed film, one that resuscitated the Hollywood musical during troubled times. Yet 42nd Street wasn't merely a Depression tonic, its multiple plot line was half-comic, half-serious. It was a fast-paced, energetic, and the first musical not to shrink away from the fact that a Depression was going on. The film is an odd, and oddly successful, fusion of the real with the fantastic.
- Notes:
- Screenplay, by R. James and J. Seymour, for the motion picture 42nd Street, based on the novel by B. Ropes.
- ISBN:
- 0299081001 :
- 0299081044
- OCLC:
- 6420592
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.