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• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their pro...

• Author(s): Eldon L. Ham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General There is a long-standing relationship between broadcasting and sports, and nowhere is this more evident than i...

• Author(s): Jim Harmon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference From the 1920s to the 1950s, radio was the entertainment source for millions. Two of the primary themes of radio serials ...

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Direction & Production This work, first published in 1989, includes discussions of the history of sound effect...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - Reference This is an encyclopedic reference work to 1,802 radio programs broadcast from the years 1924 through 1984. E...

• Author(s): George Ansbro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General On Friday, May 18, 1934, radio columns in the New York press announced that Bert P...

• Author(s): Axel Nissen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In a career spanning six decades, Agnes Moorehead (1900-1974) was perhaps unique among 20th-century American actresses in ...

• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio This history of commercial radio networks in the United States provides a wealth of information on broadcasting from the 1920s t...

• Author(s): Jeanette M. Berard | Klaudia Englund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism In the early days of television, many of its actors, writers, produc...

• Author(s): Alvin H. Marill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Diminutive Mickey Rooney has been in show business for more than 80 years as actor, producer, writer, composer,...

• Author(s): Ed Andreychuk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General The Lone Ranger has endured as an iconic figure in American popular culture, from his 1933 premier as a radio se...

• Author(s): John T. Soister | Joanna Wioskowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the...

• Author(s): Tim Brooks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Media Studies The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today consi...

• Author(s): Francine Silverman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General This book seeks to bridge the gap between show hosts and prospective guests, providing a reference gui...

• Author(s): Robert W. Phillips • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts This is the definitive work on Roy Rogers, the "King of the Cowboys." The lives and car...

• Author(s): Carol A Stabile • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Goldsmiths Press • BISAC: Media StudiesHow forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in t...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism The openings and closings to radio programs of all types, from comedies (Blondie, The Jack Ben...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Lynn Kear | John Rossman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book is the definitive guide to the film, stage, radio and television career of Kay Francis, one ...

• Author(s): Paul Green • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Jeffrey Hunter is best remembered today for his roles as half-breed Martin Pawley in ...

• Author(s): Tim Lasiuta • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - General The perfect guide for all collectors of Western film, television, radio and comics mem...

• Author(s): Egil Törnqvist • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Bergman is a most versatile director who has devoted himself to several muses in a variety of...

• Author(s): Suzanne Gargiulo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Hans Conried was once described by the well-known Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General The remarkable career of American actress Eve Arden (1908-1990) is thoroughly ch...

• Author(s): Ona L. Hill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Best known for his television series "Perry Mason" and "Ironside," Burr had a career spanning ...

• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference This comprehensive analysis of Boris Karloff's life and career incorporates criticism, in-depth production inform...

• Author(s): Burl Barer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The now legendary character created by Leslie Charteris has survived nearly three-quarters of a century of perilous action ...

• Author(s): David C. Tucker • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts An Oscar-winning Best Actress for her tour-de-force role in Come Back, Little Sheba, Shirl...

• Author(s): Gordon Payton | Jr. Martin Grams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Almost every evening for nine years during the late 1970s and early 1980s, th...

• Author(s): Gary Poole • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism This book is a real find--for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of ...

• Author(s): Jeff Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Ruggedly handsome Jeff Chandler won over fans with his versatile acting in film, television, radio, and theatre. He ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth McLeod • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General This critical reexamination of Amos 'n' Andy, the pioneering creation of Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden, ...

• Author(s): Gordon F. Sander • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts"Serling's complex life was very like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone, and Gord...

• Author(s): Scott Allen Nollen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts The prodigious but humble scion of a New York theatrical family, Chester Morris acted ...