The Golden Age of "B" Movies

First edition (1978) copy of The Golden Age of "B" Movies by Doug McClelland

The Golden Age of "B" Movies returns the reader to Hollywood's lush 1940s and the wide world of that most neglected of films species, the low-budget but often high-quality motion picture—the "B." 

Reaching their peak during that glittering celluloid decade, these "quickies" were frequently more enjoyable— and frequently more adventurous— than the costlier main attractions (or "A"s) on double-feature bills of the day. Filmgoers caught early glimpses of future Academy Award winners Susan Hayward in Among the Living and nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor in There's One Born Every Minute; thrilled to horror films such as The Wold Man and the Seventh Victim, Sherlock Holmes mysteries such as The Pearl of Death and Gothic melodramas such as My Name is Julia Ross. 

Audiences sang along with the Andrews Sisters in Give out, Sisters, tapped along with Ann Miller in Reveille with Beverly, laughed along with the Ritz Brothers in Behind the Eight Ball, cried along with little Billy Lee in The Biscuit Eater. Critics, too, marveled at the "artistic" achievements of inexpensive films such as Detour, Bewitches and So Dark the Night. 

Hardcover

Edition/year: 1st edition, 1945, The Hyperion Press, Inc. 

Condition: good vintage condition. 

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