Nat Segaloff

First published to acclaim in 2011, Arthur Penn: American Director is the first biography of the acclaimed director of The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Alice's Restaurant, The Chase, Mickey One, The Missouri Breaks, and, of course, the motion picture that fired the first shot in the Film Revolution, Bonnie and Clyde. Born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents in 1922 and raised in Dickensian circumstances, Penn (and his older brother, Irving, who became the innovative fashion photographer) found himself behind the German lines at the Battle of the Bulge, a student in the formative years of Black Mountain College, in the director's seat at the beginning of the Golden Age of television, and at the blossoming of the Actors Studio, all of which influenced his filmmaking. Arthur Penn: American Director charts his personal and artistic odyssey. Written with Penn's intimate participation, it was completed days before his death in 2010. It features interviews with dozens of his collaborators and is being brought back into print by Bear Manor Media with an all-new Afterword containing tributes by his peers and a stunning revelation about the mysterious woman who educated young Arthur in the arts. NAT SEGALOFF has written and/or produced biographies of William Friedkin, Harlan Ellison, Stirling Silliphant, John Belushi, Stan Lee, Larry King, Walon Green, Paul Mazursky, and Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop. He lives in Los Angeles where he has given up expecting people to return his phone calls.

Citizen Kane and Titanic might have an artistic and popular monopoly on greatness, but when it comes to sitting down to a strictly enjoyable film, give me The North Avenue Irregulars any day. What you hold in your hand now is a collection of behind the scenes essays dealing with the unheralded wonders of my youth. I am nobody, but I do have a publishing company, so please excuse the one vanity project you now read. However, I think you're going to find some really good stuff here. If you, like me are a true fan of ignored classics like The Shaggy DA and The Good Fairy, then this is going to be a book you will treasure. I tried to collect up a group of my favorite films that have not been covered much in print before, then asked a few good writers I knew if they would be interested in writing chapters on each, with a particular emphasis on how the films were made and interviews with any cast or crew they could catch, rather than just criticism. I am pleased with this book and hope you will be too. - Ben Ohmart

Guarding Gable starts with an actual event in the life of the screen's number one star and becomes a story worthy of a Hollywood movie. It's 1942 and World War Two is just beginning. Beloved actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash while returning from a bond-selling tour and her devoted husband, Clark Gable, is beyond consolation. Depressed to the point of suicide, he enlists in the U. S. Army Air Corps, telling his bosses at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that he doesn't care if he ever comes back. Naturally, MGM is apoplectic at the prospect of losing their top box office attraction. In desperation, studio head Louis B. Mayer leans on a lowly publicist, Alan Greenberg, to enlist with Gable with orders to keep him alive during World War Two. That's hard to do when Gable insists on flying combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe. Not only that, he and Alan fall in love with the same woman -- and, if you're Alan, how do you win the girl if your competition is Clark Gable, the "King" of Hollywood? Guarding Gable is a story of love, war, and humor. It also has a little rough language but, after all, this is the Army. This title is also available as an enhanced audiobook for download from Bear Manor Audio and on CD from Blackstone Audio. Nat Segaloff covered the motion picture business for the Boston Herald, CBS Radio, and Group W. He has also been a studio publicist, college teacher, playwright, and author. In 1996 he formed the multimedia production company Alien Voices with actors Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie and produced five bestselling, fully dramatized audio plays.

Guarding Gable starts with an actual event in the life of the screen's number one star and becomes a story worthy of a Hollywood movie. It's 1942 and World War Two is just beginning. Beloved actress Carole Lombard is killed in a plane crash while returning from a bond-selling tour and her devoted husband, Clark Gable, is beyond consolation. Depressed to the point of suicide, he enlists in the U. S. Army Air Corps, telling his bosses at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that he doesn't care if he ever comes back. Naturally, MGM is apoplectic at the prospect of losing their top box office attraction. In desperation, studio head Louis B. Mayer leans on a lowly publicist, Alan Greenberg, to enlist with Gable with orders to keep him alive during World War Two. That's hard to do when Gable insists on flying combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe. Not only that, he and Alan fall in love with the same woman -- and, if you're Alan, how do you win the girl if your competition is Clark Gable, the "King" of Hollywood? Guarding Gable is a story of love, war, and humor. It also has a little rough language but, after all, this is the Army. This title is also available as an enhanced audiobook for download from Bear Manor Audio and on CD from Blackstone Audio. Nat Segaloff covered the motion picture business for the Boston Herald, CBS Radio, and Group W. He has also been a studio publicist, college teacher, playwright, and author. In 1996 he formed the multimedia production company Alien Voices with actors Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie and produced five bestselling, fully dramatized audio plays.

Citizen Kane and Titanic might have an artistic and popular monopoly on greatness, but when it comes to sitting down to a strictly enjoyable film, give me The North Avenue Irregulars any day. What you hold in your hand now is a collection of behind the scenes essays dealing with the unheralded wonders of my youth. I am nobody, but I do have a publishing company, so please excuse the one vanity project you now read. However, I think you're going to find some really good stuff here. If you, like me are a true fan of ignored classics like The Shaggy DA and The Good Fairy, then this is going to be a book you will treasure. I tried to collect up a group of my favorite films that have not been covered much in print before, then asked a few good writers I knew if they would be interested in writing chapters on each, with a particular emphasis on how the films were made and interviews with any cast or crew they could catch, rather than just criticism. I am pleased with this book and hope you will be too. - Ben Ohmart

Guiding Royalty: My Adventure with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is an intimate look at two ultra-famous people at a time when their fame was at a low ebb. Set in the Holy Land and featuring places and personalities who shaped the history of their times, here is an untold and richly human story.

Guiding Royalty: My Adventure with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is an intimate look at two ultra-famous people at a time when their fame was at a low ebb. Set in the Holy Land and featuring places and personalities who shaped the history of their times, here is an untold and richly human story.

In his previous exposE, Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2016), former movie publicist and film critic Nat Segaloff wrote about what visiting celebrities did when they thought nobody was watching. Here, in Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back, Nat pries the lid off of corporate show business to reveal secrets that even the biggest stars don't know. He also drops more names: Meet Max von Sydow, the Singing Exorcist Learn the twisted management style of Group W, the company that created Evening Magazine and PM Magazine Find out how the studios neutralize film critics and nosey interviewers Have a toga party with with denizens of the movie Animal House Read the only book to contain interviews with both Butterfly McQueen and Linda Lovelace About the Author: Nat Segaloff is a movie publicist who crossed the professional street to become a film critic and journalist--a move that gave him insight into the ways of Hollywood but made him an infidel to the studios he used to work for. His previous BearManor titles include Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors, Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God, and Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Huston's Last Film. His next project is the tell-all story of Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop.

In his previous expos , Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood (Bear Manor Media, 2016), former movie publicist and film critic Nat Segaloff wrote about what visiting celebrities did when they thought nobody was watching. Here, in Screen Saver Too: Hollywood Strikes Back, Nat pries the lid off of corporate show business to reveal secrets that even the biggest stars don't know. He also drops more names: Meet Max von Sydow, the Singing Exorcist Learn the twisted management style of Group W, the company that created Evening Magazine and PM Magazine Find out how the studios neutralize film critics and nosey interviewers Have a toga party with with denizens of the movie Animal House Read the only book to contain interviews with both Butterfly McQueen and Linda Lovelace About the Author: Nat Segaloff is a movie publicist who crossed the professional street to become a film critic and journalist-a move that gave him insight into the ways of Hollywood but made him an infidel to the studios he used to work for. His previous BearManor titles include Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors, Stirling Silliphant: The Fingers of God, and Mr. Huston/Mr. North: Life, Death, and Making John Huston's Last Film. His next project is the tell-all story of Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop.