Rediscovering Ben Hecht
Subtitle: selling the celluloid serpent
By: a book by Florice Whyte Kovan.
Contributors: Kovan, Florice Whyte.
Series: Rediscovering Ben Hecht series -- v. 1
Publisher: Snickersnee
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Paperback, oblong, hand-set
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Motion picture industry -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Notes: Collection of 14 stories by Ben Hecht, located and reproduced at the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: Ben Hecht Stories in Rediscovering Ben Hecht: Selling the Celluloid Serpent; title: The Movie Double" about cliffhanger heroines and stuntwomen; title: Peshka and the Great Urge" about movie madness in a Jewish neighborhood); title: "The Knockout" about boxer Kid McCoy/Norman Selby; title: "Moon Quan" (Kwan) about the Chinese cultural consultant to silent films; title: "Another Arabian Night" about Wallace Reid; title: "The New Market", about casting types and their dollar value; title: 'Mack Sennett's Soul" - interview - where can such a famous man hide?; title: "A Plot for a Story" about stream of consiousness in film; title: "The Ancient Reluctant Conscript" about veterans of war movies; title: "Tears, Tears, Tears" about Norma Talmadge and Mabel Normand; title: "Reality versus Sham" about a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest; title: "The Love Interest" about Harrison Ford 1920s rough-guy-with-women movies; title: "Petrovivacity" about Olga Petrova, silent film diva and modernist; title: "A Perfect Exposure" about a woman in a display window; title: "The Picador" roman a clef re Rudolph Valentino; title: Index