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- Title: The Filmgoer’s Companion Third Edition
- Author: Leslie Halliwell (with a Foreword by Alfred Hitchcock)
- Year Published: 1970 (Hill and Wang New York)
- Year Purchased: 1990’s
- Source: Antique Building, The Ohio State Fair
- About: A dense, 1,072 page listing of nearly every player in movie history (up to the 1960’s), complete with pertinent biographical and career data, this is an info junkie’s dream. There is nothing extraneous, with Halliwell offering up facts and not opinions.
- Motivation: I love old movie stars, especially those of the once-famous-now-obscure variety. For this reason, I collect vintage fan magazines and out-of-print, pre-1990’s genre books. Every cinema buff should own one edition of ‘The Filmgoer’s Companion’.
- Times Read: 2
- Random Excerpt/Page 7: “Speaking personally, I don’t know whether it is more flattering or disturbing to find oneself pinned down like a butterfly in a book which recounts all the macabre details of one’s career. But being a stickler for detail myself, I must, and do, submit; and I wish the enterprise well.”
- Happiness Scale: 10+++ (although IMDB is splendid, sometimes only a book will do)
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