SPENCER BECK, J. [EDITOR]
The Variety history of show business


Harry N. Abrams, New York. 1993. First Edition. Hardback. Quarto. Red blindstamped cloth with gold lettering on front panel and spine. With dustjacket. 223 pages. 23,5 x 28,5 x 2,5 cm. 1292 gr. ISBN-10 0-8109-3926-6. ISBN-13 978-0-8109-3926-4. Designed by J.-C. Suarès. Introduced by Peter Bart. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Includes an Index. (Key Words: Show Business, Performing Arts, Actors, Actresses, Variety, Film, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Frank Sinatra, Parmount Pictures, Richard Nixon, Bela Lugosi, John F. Kennedy, D. W. Griffith, Dracula, Columbia Pictures, Movies, Johnny Carson, John Barrymore).


Variety has been the single most authoritative and influential publication devoted to the entertainment industry. Here Variety's editors go into the past and cover the great events of show business history with characteristic style and with more than 100 revealing photos. With each of the forty chapters focussing on a pivotal event, introducing its key players, and exploring its long-term inpact on show business from the shooting of the first movies in Hollywood in 1913, the first Cannes Film Festival in 1946 to the first MTV broadcast in 1981 and the retirement of Johnny Carson in 1992.


Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. A clean, crisp hardback in unclipped dustwrapper. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket.


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