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Author Donna Hill at Larry Edmunds Bookshop

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Aug 20th, 2010
2010
Aug 20

BOOK SIGNING

Tonight Donna Hill appeared at Larry Edmunds Bookshop to a SRO crowd to sign her book, “Rudolph Valentino: The Silent Idol”

 

 

 

by author Donna L. Hill

 

Tonight at Larry Edmunds Bookshop, author Donna L. Hill signed copies of her book and narrated a Valentino presentation to a standing-room-only crowd

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Edmunds Bookshop

323-463-3273

www.larryedmunds.com

info@larryedmunds.com

 

One of the most alluring, enigmatic, and simply irresistible movie icons of all time, Rudolph Valentino continues to inspire generation after generation of moviegoers. In Rudolph Valentino, The Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs, author Donna Hill retells the story of Valentino’s life using a treasure trove of rare photographs. Drawn from the author’s extensive collection and those of generous fellow collectors and archives, most of the images in this volume have not been seen since the 1920′s; many have never been released publicly until now.

 

Rudolph Valentino was more than the “sheik” of one of his most famous films. He was more than the legendary star who died at a tragically young age. For long-time fans as well as curious newcomers, these remarkable images — candid snapshots at home, traveling, on film sets — reveal the glamour and charm of the man who continues to beguile and inspire movie lovers to this day.

 

Click here for more information and how to purchase Rudolph Valentino The Silent Idol

 

And check here for more information on Donna’s website 

 

About the Author:

A lifelong film afficionado with a particular affection for films of the silent era, Donna Hill has collected memoriabilia with regard to Rudolph Valentino for over thirty years. The collection of rare photos is shared by the author’s blurb book, Rudolph Valentino The Silent Idol, his Life in Photographs. The author lives in San Francisco.

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Early Warner Bros. Studios at Larry Edmunds

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Aug 11th, 2010
2010
Aug 11

BOOK SIGNINGS

Early Warner Bros. Studios book signing & slide presentation at Larry Edmunds Bookshop

 

 

  

by authors E. J. Stephens and Marc Wanamaker

 

Thursday, August 12 @ 7:00 p.m.

Larry Edmunds Bookshop

6644 Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood, 90028

323-463-3273

www.larryedmunds.com

info@larryedmunds.com

 

Since 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the Warner Bros. legacy from the 1920s to the 1950s, when timeless classics such as Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and East of Eden came to life. It also looks at WB’s earlier homes along Hollywood’s “Poverty Row,” the birthplace of Looney Tunes, and the site of WB’s pioneering marriage between film and sound in the 1920s. Early Warner Bros. Studios also tells the tale of four brothers–Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner–scions of a Polish Jewish immigrant family who rose from the humblest of origins to become Hollywood moguls of enormous and lasting influence.

About the Authors

E.J. Stephens, a former WB Studios worker as well as newspaper columnist and film-series host, volunteers with his wife, Kim, a 22-year WB employee, as a docent for the Warner Bros. Museum. Film historian and consultant Marc Wanamaker, a founder of the Hollywood Heritage Museum, established Bison Archives in 1973, which is one of Southern California’s most notable repositories of entertainment heritage.
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Alison Arngrim at Larry Edmunds

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jun 28th, 2010
2010
Jun 28

BOOK SIGNINGS

Alison Arngrim Confesses! at Larry Edmunds Bookshop

 

 

Alison Arngrim signs her book

Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

 

Wednesday, June 30 @ 7:00 p.m.

Larry Edmunds Bookshop

6644 Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood, 90028

323-463-3273

www.larryedmunds.com

info@larryedmunds.com

 

Meet Alison (Nellie Oleson) Arngrim as she tells tales of the prairie and signs her new book,” Confessions of A Prairie Bitch.” For seven years, Alison Arngrim played a wretched , scheming, selfish, lying, manipulative brat on one of TV history’s most beloved series. Though millions of Little House on the Prairie veiwers hated Nellie Oleson and her eveil antics, Arngirm grew to lover her character —and the freedom and confindence Nellie inspired in her

 

Alison will also have a “Nasty Nellie” tour available that afternoon prior to the signing. Find out more on that @ www.dearlydepartedtours.com. We hope to see you for “Little House @ the Larry”.

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Anthony Slide at Larry Edmunds Bookshop

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on May 14th, 2010
2010
May 14

BOOK SIGNINGS

Author Anthony Slide at Larry Edmunds Bookshop

 

 

 

Author Anthony Slide signs his latest book:

Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine

 

Sunday, May 16th @ 1:00 p.m.

Larry Edmunds Bookshop

6644 Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood, 90028

323-463-3273

www.larryedmunds.com

info@larryedmunds.com

 

Anthony Slide’s Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers provides the definitive history of a little known artifact. The book charts the development of the fan magazine from the golden years when Motion Picture Story Magazine and Photoplay first appeared in 1911 to its decline into provocative headlines and titillation in the 1960s and afterward.

  

Today, fan magazines such as People and US Weekly are quickly dismissed as publicity tools or fluff journalism. But, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating and indispensable chapter in journalism and popular culture.

 

Slide discusses how the fan magazines dealt with gossip and innuendo, and how they handled nationwide issues such as Hollywood scandals of the 1920s, World War II, the blacklist, and the death of President Kennedy. Fan magazines thrived in the twentieth century, and they presented the history of an industry in a unique, sometimes accurate, and always entertaining style.

  

This major cultural history includes a new interview with 1970s media personality Rona Barrett, as well as original commentary from a dozen editors and writers. Also included is a chapter on contributions to the fan magazines from well-known writers such as Theodore Dreiser and e. e. cummings. The book is enhanced by an appendix documenting some 268 American fan magazines and includes detailed publication histories.

 

Slide lives in Studio City, California, and is an independent scholar who has published more than seventy-two books on popular entertainment. He has been a specialist appraiser of entertainment memorabilia for more than thirty years, an associate archivist for the American Film Institute, and the resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Get Mondo at Larry Edmunds

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Mar 25th, 2010
2010
Mar 25

BOOK SIGNINGS

Get Mondo @ Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood!

 

 

Join us on FRIDAY,MARCH 26th @ 7:30 p.m. for a trip to the Sunset Strip in the 1960’s. Author Domenic Priore will bring a  1960’s Hollywood slideshow and sign his book “RIOT on the SUNSET STRIP”. We’ll show clips from  the film”MONDO MOD” featuring our evening’s special guest Charles Lange, of the Belinda Boutique, who appears in the film ! This scene will swing for sure !

SEE YOU THERE !

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Larry Edmunds Booksigning

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Feb 25th, 2010
2010
Feb 25

BOOKSIGNINGS

The Story of Hollywood

By Gregory Paul Williams

 

 

Friday, February 26, 2010

7:30 p.m.

 

Larry Edmunds Bookshop

6644 Hollywood Boulevard

(323) 463-3273

 

The Story of Hollywood by Gregory Paul Williams

 

The Story of Hollywood follows Hollywood from its dusty origins to its glorious rise to stardom. Lavishly illustrated with over 800 vintage images from the author’s private collection, the book tells the complete story of Hollywood including its eventual decline and urban renewal. Both the playground of stars and the boulevard of broken dreams, Hollywood transformed American society with its motion pictures that revolutionized the entertainment world. The Story of Hollywood brings new insights to readers. with a passion for Hollywood and its place in the history of film, radio, and television.

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Otay! the Billy “Buckwheat” Thomas Story

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Feb 17th, 2010
2010
Feb 17

BOOK SIGNINGS

Otay! the Billy “Buckwheat” Thomas Story

 

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Otay! The Billy “Buckwheat” Thomas Story
Book Signing WITH
William Thomas, Jr. – Buckwheat’s Son
And Screening of an Our Gang CLASSIC
TONIGHT

Wednesday, February 17th @7:00 pm

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Larry Edmunds Bookshop

6644 Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood

(323) 463-3273

 
William Thomas, the man known as “Buckwheat,” one of the most beloved characters in the history of the Our Gang and Little Rascals films, rose from obscurity to become an American icon. Billy’s heritage grew to be more than the ninety-three comedies in which he appeared as Buckwheat. He was a husband, father, and soldier. Several generations have come to know Buckwheat as if he was a real person, but few knew Billy, the man behind the myth. In “Otay!” The Billy “Buckwheat” Thomas Story, William Thomas, Jr., Billy’s son, joins with acclaimed author David W. Menefee to brush back the sands of time and unearth the facts beneath the fable. For the first time, the true story is told how producer Hal Roach, Sr. plucked three-year-old Billy from hundreds of children and raised him on a pedestal before an adoring public. For a decade, Billy was the most prominent Black American in motion pictures, but World War Two brought an end to the famous comedy series and a halt to his film career. Billy went on to live a private, nearly normal life, married, fathered an adorable child, and then answered the call to arms and enlisted in the US Army during the Korean War. Years later, imposters attempted to steal his limelight, but Billy forgave the offense with his characteristic, childlike good humor. In an era when most Black American actors were struggling to gain a foothold in Hollywood, Billy achieved a lasting legacy. Enjoy the timeless tale of a baby superstar, who once shown brightly on movie screens during Hollywood’s “Golden Years” and still fascinates audiences today.
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Graving at Larry Edmunds

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jan 30th, 2010
2010
Jan 30

BOOK SIGNINGS

Steve Goldstein at Larry Edmunds

 

 

Last night at Larry Edmunds Bookshop, after a screening of Gravehungting with Steve: A Journey Beneath Los Angeles, Steve Goldstein, author of LA’s Graveside Companion, talks about his book before the signing.

 

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Steve Goldstein at Larry Edmunds

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jan 27th, 2010
2010
Jan 27

BOOK SIGNING

Steve Goldstein’s “LA’s Graveside Companion” at Larry Edmunds Bookshop

 

 

Come join us for author Steve Goldstein signing “L.A.’s Graveside Companion”  and short film “Gravehunting with Steve” on Friday January 29th @ 7:00 p.m. Write us back or visit larryedmunds.com for more information.

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Robert S. Birchard Book Signing

Posted by Allan Ellenberger on Jan 11th, 2010
2010
Jan 11

BOOK SIGNINGS

 

Evening @ The Barn

Hollywood Heritage

 

 

Early Universal City-cover

 

EARLY UNIVERSAL CITY

by Robert S. Birchard

Slide Show, Discussion, Book Signing

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www.Hollywoodheritage.org

Thursday, January 14, 2010 – 7:30 p.m.

Hollywood Heritage Museum 

2100 North Highland Avenue, (Across from Hollywood Bowl)

Free Parking, Refreshments available 

2100 North Highland Avenue

$5.00 for Hollywood Heritage Members; $10.00 for non-members

Free Parking, Refreshments available

Telephone:  (323) 874-4005 • FAX (323) 465-5993 

   

Known as much today for its theme park, Universal City is also the largest and the longest continuously operating movie studio in “Hollywood.” The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was formed by a dozen independent producers in 1912, and Universal City was designed to provide a single facility in which to make their films. Since its official opening on March 15, 1915, Universal City has served as a training ground for directors like John Ford, William Wyler and James Whale; and as home to stars like Hoot Gibson, Deanna Durbin, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Sr. and Jr., and Tom Mix . This evocative volume explores the studio that brought The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Dracula (1930), Frankenstein (1931) and 100 Men and a Girl (1936) to the screen.  

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