Film's first family : the untold story of the Costellos / Terry Chester Shulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shulman, Terry Chester, 1955- author.

Series:

Kentucky scholarship online.

Kentucky scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costello family.

Costello, Maurice, 1887-1950.

Costello, Maurice.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

Motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2020.

Summary:

The story of the Costellos is the story of the 20th century's second most accomplished family of actors - second only to the Barrymores, with whom they intermarried to beget a dynasty of unrivaled importance tothe stage and screen. Maurice Costello was the first screen heartthrob and the first truly modern screen actor. His daughter Helene was the first actress to star in an all-talking picture, The Lights of New York, in 1928. His daughter Dolores was a major star in her own right before marrying John Barrymore and bearing him a son to carry on the Barrymore name to successive generations of famous actors. The inner narrative is the story of not just what Hollywood does to actors, but what actors do to themselves. Maurice entangled himself in films' first career destroying scandal. Scandals continued to reduce the family fortunes as the Costellos' achievements were eclipsed.

Contents:

1. Mise-en-scène

2. Pittsburgh and north

3. Mae

4. East to Eden

5. Chewing the scenery

6. A lusty, growing thing

7. Great days

8. Smashing things

9. Desperate times

10. The lion at Warners

11. Alone time

12. Trial in error

13. Xanadu and vicinity

14. Going south

15. Sherman and the nut

16. The middle of the end

17. Over her head

18. Three on their own

19. Daddy butch

20. The lions at Bay

21. A trio of marriages

22. The magnificent Ambersons

23. Deirdre, Johnny, and Jane

24. Here lies the mick

25. A minor kidnapping

26. An old Spanish custom

27. Mum mum.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2020).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780813178127

0813178126

9780813178110

0813178118

9780813178103

081317810X

OCLC:

1119730407