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Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the World's Greatest Directors (Paperback)

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By Robert Schnakenberg, Mario Zucca (Illustrator)
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Description


Strange-But-True Tales of Cross-Dressers, Drug Addicts, Foot Fetishists, and Other Legendary Filmmakers.
 
With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from D. W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino, Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers reveals the little-known secrets of all your favorite directors. Why did Charlie Chaplin refuse to bathe for weeks at a time? Was Alfred Hitchcock really missing a belly button?  Is Walt Disney’s corpse preserved in a state of suspended animation? And why on earth did Francis Ford Coppola direct a 3-D pornographic movie? The legends of the silver screen will never be the same!

About the Author


Robert Schnakenberg is the author of several nonfiction books, including Secret Lives of Great Authors. He lives in Brooklyn.

Praise For…


“When Robert Schnakenberg's Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers arrived in my mailbox, I braced myself for 288 pages of future dinner-party tidbits. To my delight, it delivered.”—USA Today, Popcandy

Product Details
ISBN: 9781594744341
ISBN-10: 1594744343
Publisher: Quirk Books
Publication Date: February 1st, 2009
Pages: 288
Language: English
Series: Secret Lives