Shawna Kelly

Aviators in Early Hollywood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hollywood's leading aviators were heroic knights of the sky on the screen as well as in real life. These leading aviators performed aerial stunt sequences and acted, plus some wrote and directed motion pictures. Directing giant Cecil B. DeMille was so enthralled with aviation that he owned three airfields. Charlie Chaplin's family airfield also doubled as a motion-picture set. Thomas H. Ince, the famous producer who invented the studio system, owned Ince Airfield, which became the hub of Hollywood aviation. Eternal legends Rudolph Valentino, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini, and Mary Pickford performed in aerials. Many aviators gave their lives making motion pictures; three fatalities were incurred for Howard Hughes's great air epic, Hell's Angels. Hughes himself broke records within aircraft and film production. Aviators brought their screen work to life between films through barnstorming. The roaring in 1920s Hollywood was often aviators soaring beyond limits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780738559025
• ISBN-10: 0738559024
• Artikelnr.: 23879754

Autorenporträt

Shawna Kelly, whose aerial courage includes skydiving at 10,000 feet, was inspired to write by her medal award-winning writer relative, Bliss Carman. She is also the great granddaughter of "Daredevil" DeLay, innovator of several aerial firsts for motion pictures and one of the aviators who gave his life for the entertainment world.