Description: Up for sale is a 1984 1st Edition/1st Printing copy of "THE HOLLYWOOD HALL OF SHAME: THE MOST EXPENSIVE FLOPS IN MOVIE HISTORY" by Harry & Michael Medved. Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page.Welcome to the first titillating tour of a new museum, devoted to the most expensive mistakes in movie history, guided by those world-renowned bad-film aficionados -- the Brothers Medved.Lavishly illustrated in glorious black and white, The Hollywood Hall of Shame celebrates motion pictures that have failed on so grand a scale that they have earned their own sort of immortality. In addition to such flops as Cleopatra, Darling Lili, and Heaven's Gate, visitors to the Hollywood Hall of Shame will discover bizarre losers like:* Hello Everybody, a lavish musical featuring the romantic exploits of the singing, dancing, 212-pound Kate Smith;* Kolberg, a 1944 Nazi extravaganza about the Napoleonic Wars starring 187,000 Wehrmacht soldiers as battlefield extras, and personally supervised by Dr. Joseph Goebbels;* Doctor Doolittle, the dilemma-ridden Rex Harrison disaster in which even the ducks almost drowned;* Underwater!, a Howard Hughes-Jane Russell seagoing stinker that premiered at the bottom of a swimming pool to a group of skeptical critics wearing diving equipment.These and other "overstuffed" turkeys are displayed in exhibition areas, which include fascinating information on how the films were made, the inside story of what went wrong during production, and explanations of why they failed at the box office. In the colorful corridors of this museum, you will meet such dreamers and schemers as William Randolph Hearst, Marlene Dietrich, D.W. Griffith, Liberace, Elizabeth Taylor, Benito Mussolini, Julie Andrews, Warren Beatty, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, and many, many others. There is also a basement collection describing over two hundred bona fide bomberinos for the confirmed connoisseur of cinematography So come find your way through Harry and Michael's hilarious Hall of Shame, and fondly remember those grand, doomed gestures Hollywood would prefer to forget. This book is in very good condition. Rubbing/shelf wear to the front/rear cover panels as well as the spine panel. Rubbing/chipping/shelf wear along the edges and corners of the front/rear covers as well as along the edges of the spine panel. The spine and pages are tight within the cover. Book is square and tight. There are no other marks, tears, bookplates or writing in these books. Please review all photos for your best idea of condition. Shipping on this item will be $5.88.Thank You and Good Luck!!
Price: 15 USD
Location: Orting, Washington
End Time: 2024-12-12T03:15:58.000Z
Shipping Cost: 5.88 USD
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Item Specifics
Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Signed By: Michael Medved
Book Title: Hollywood Hall of Shame
Signed: Yes
Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length: 5 in
Inscribed: Yes
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1984
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Author: Harry Medved, Michael Medved
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Performing Arts, Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Film / Guides & Reviews, General
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Width: 7 in
