Pg Wodehouse And Hollywood

Author : Brian Taves
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484438
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood written by Brian Taves and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved British humorist P.G. Wodehouse produced a wealth of literature in his lengthy career, contributing novels, short stories, plays, lyrics and essays to the canon of comic writing. His work in film and television included two stints as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1930s, and his stories have been the basis for more than 150 film and television productions. He also wrote 20 stories and essays about Hollywood, satirizing the city and its entertainment magnates. This book studies P.G. Wodehouse's extensive, but often overlooked relationship with Tinsel Town. The book is arranged chronologically, covering Wodehouse's Hollywood career from his early efforts in silent film, to his later contributions in television, to his work adapted posthumously for the screen. Radio is covered as well, including a discussion of his internment in occupied France and his brief appearances on German radio. Reflecting Wodehouse's international appeal, the book covers Wodehouse films and television in England, Germany, Sweden, and India. Also included are a comprehensive, detailed list of Wodehouse's stories and articles about Hollywood, and a complete filmography of motion picture and television works to which he contributed or which were based on his stories.

Author : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Publisher : Hutchinson Radius
ISBN 13 : 9780091779849
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Omnibus written by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Wodehouse's fiction and non-fiction writing about Hollywood, its producers and stars, including two full-length novels: Laughing Gas and The Old Reliable. Mr Mulliner, Reggie Havershot and the obnoxious child star, Joey Cooley, make an appearance, as does W.C. Fields.

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409063682
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laughing Gas written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A lifelong treat' Simon Garfield, Esquire A P.G. Wodehouse novel Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap. Laughing Gas is Wodehouse's brilliantly funny take on the 'If I were you' theme - a wry look at the dangers of getting what you wish for in the movie business and beyond.

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393089878
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive edition of the letters—many previously unpublished—of England’s greatest comic writer. P. G. Wodehouse wrote some of the greatest comic masterpieces of all time. So, naturally, we find the same humor and wit in his letters. He offers hilarious accounts of living in England and France, the effects of prohibition, and how to deal with publishers. He even recounts cricket matches played while in a Nazi internment camp (Wodehouse wanted to show the stiff upper lip of the British in the toughest situations). Over the years, Wodehouse corresponded with relatives, friends, and some of the greatest figures of the twentieth century: Agatha Christie, Ira Gershwin, Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The letters are arranged chronologically with intersecting sections of biography written by Sophie Ratcliffe. This is the only book you will need to understand the man behind the characters.

Author : P. Wodehouse
Publisher : Aegitas
ISBN 13 : 0369401360
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Code of the Woosters written by P. Wodehouse and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of the Woosters is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 7 October 1938, in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It was serialised in The Saturday Evening Post (US) from 16 July to 3 September 1938 and in the London Daily Mail from 14 September to 6 October 1938. The Code of the Woosters is the third full-length novel to feature two of Wodehouse's best-known creations, Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. It introduces Sir Watkyn Bassett, the owner of a country house called Totleigh Towers where the story takes place, and his intimidating friend Roderick Spode. It is also a sequel to Right Ho, Jeeves, continuing the story of Bertie's newt-fancying friend Gussie Fink-Nottle and Gussie's droopy and overly sentimental fiancée, Madeline Bassett. Bertie and Jeeves return to Totleigh Towers in a later novel, Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves.

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409063860
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pigs Have Wings written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blandings is now a major BBC One television series starring Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall. Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE
ISBN 13 : 9781841591933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bring on the Girls written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite an enormous solo output, P. G Wodehouse often co-operated with other writers, especially in the early stages of his career, exchanging or sharing plots, advising on problems and even writing books and stage-works together. Bring on the Girls is a characteristically mordant account of his work with Guy Bolton in musical comedy, which occupied much of Wodehouse's energy from his arrival in America and effectively made his reputation. This is a tactful book - there are no shocking revelations - but an extremely amusing one, with vivid portraits of such stars as Gertrude Lawrence and insights into febrile life behind the scenes.

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Right Ho, Jeeves written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela. In Bertie's absence, Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend, Gussie Fink-Nottle, who is in love with a goofy, sentimental, whimsical, childish girl named Madeline Bassett...

Author : P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009951415X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hot Water written by P. G. Wodehouse and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881. He is the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner stories and novels.Senator Opal becomes the victim of blackmail when a certain letter goes missing at the Chateau during Vicomte Blissac’s house party. It falls to American, Packy Franklyn, to sort out the mess, with help from the light-fingered Soup Slattery.

Author : P.G. Wodehouse
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585672776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Emsworth written by P.G. Wodehouse and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nine stories include a crime wave at Blandings Castle; Ukridge appearing on Corky's doorstep at 3 in the morning, wearing his yellow mackintosh and requesting a whisky and soda; and the Oldest Member warning of the folly of driving into the father of the girl you loved"--Publisher's description.