MIDNIGHT MARQUEE PRESS

by GREGORY WILLIAM MANK

"One Man Crazy!" The Life and Death of Colin Clive Paperback: 378 pages Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. (November 29, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1936168812 ISBN-13: 978-1936168811 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews #16256 in Performing Arts (Books) #8495 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies #2652 in Movie History & Criticism "One Man Crazy ... !" The Life and Death of Colin Clive; Hollywood's Dr. Frankenstein *He immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood’s Frankenstein* and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga as well.** “One Man Crazy!” The Life and Death of Colin Clive is the first full biography of this brilliant, hypersensitive actor. Adventurously-researched, sympathetic yet unsparingly revealing, and featuring over 200 illustrations, this book illuminates Clive’s genius – and the private demons that agonized the man who, as Monster-Making scientist Frankenstein, unforgettably cried, “It’s alive!” Gregory William Mank is the author of such books as It’s Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein; Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration; Hollywood’s Maddest Doctors; and Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy.	Hollywood's Maddest Doctors: Lionel Atwill, Colin Clive and George Zucco Authored by Gregory William Mank 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) Black & White on White paper 320 pages Midnight Marquee Press ISBN-13: 978-1887664226 BISAC: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts Finally a biography on those titans of terror from the Golden Age of Horror Films: Lionel Atwill (Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum), Colin Clive (Frankestein) and George Zucco (The Flying Serpent). Author Gregory Mank delves into the lives and careers of three of the actors who helped shape the modern horror film. A thrilling and involving story as the reader delves into the Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s and discovers a cast of characters whose tragic lives or distressing careers brought about their downfall. Fans of the golden age of horror films will not want to miss this story of Lionel Atwill, Colin Clive and George Zucco, three of Hollywood's Maddest Doctors.	Dwight Frye's Last Laugh Paperback: 320 pages (January 9, 2009) ISBN-13: 978-1887664110 Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars 19 customer reviews #21424 in Performing Arts (Books) #10688 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies #3601 in Movie History & Criticism Dwight Frye's Last Laugh details the dramatic rise and fall of the actor who won immortality as the giggling Renfield of Dracula and the sadistic hunchback of Frankenstein. Authorized by Dwight's son Dwight David, the book includes detailed information of Frye's early stage work, his Broadway triumphs and his ghoulish typecasting in Hollywood—which ironically assured him a posthumous cult status among horror film disciples.

"One Man Crazy!" The Life and Death of Colin Clive

Paperback: 378 pages
Publisher: Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. (November 29, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1936168812
ISBN-13: 978-1936168811
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews
- #16256 in Performing Arts (Books)
- #8495 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
- #2652 in Movie History & Criticism

"One Man Crazy ... !" The Life and Death of Colin Clive; Hollywood's Dr. Frankenstein

He immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga as well.

“One Man Crazy!” The Life and Death of Colin Clive is the first full biography of this brilliant, hypersensitive actor.

Adventurously-researched, sympathetic yet unsparingly revealing, and featuring over 200 illustrations, this book illuminates Clive’s genius – and the private demons that agonized the man who, as Monster-Making scientist Frankenstein, unforgettably cried, “It’s alive!”

Gregory William Mank is the author of such books as It’s Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein; Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration; Hollywood’s Maddest Doctors; and Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy.

Hollywood's Maddest Doctors: Lionel Atwill, Colin Clive and George Zucco

Authored by Gregory William Mank

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
320 pages

Midnight Marquee Press
ISBN-13: 978-1887664226
BISAC: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Finally a biography on those titans of terror from the Golden Age of Horror Films: Lionel Atwill (Doctor X, Mystery of the Wax Museum), Colin Clive (Frankestein) and George Zucco (The Flying Serpent). Author Gregory Mank delves into the lives and careers of three of the actors who helped shape the modern horror film.

A thrilling and involving story as the reader delves into the Hollywood of the 1930s and 1940s and discovers a cast of characters whose tragic lives or distressing careers brought about their downfall. Fans of the golden age of horror films will not want to miss this story of Lionel Atwill, Colin Clive and George Zucco, three of Hollywood's Maddest Doctors.

Dwight Frye's Last Laugh

Paperback: 320 pages
(January 9, 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1887664110
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars 19 customer reviews
- #21424 in Performing Arts (Books)
- #10688 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies
- #3601 in Movie History & Criticism

Dwight Frye's Last Laugh details the dramatic rise and fall of the actor who won immortality as the giggling Renfield of Dracula and the sadistic hunchback of Frankenstein. Authorized by Dwight's son Dwight David, the book includes detailed information of Frye's early stage work, his Broadway triumphs and his ghoulish typecasting in Hollywood—which ironically assured him a posthumous cult status among horror film disciples.