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Michael B Druxman
One Good Film Deserves Another, a follow-up to author Michael B. Druxman's Make It Again, Sam (about movie remakes), is now back in print after many years. This complementary volume…
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The history of the film remake/reboot.
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Druxman has taken Hollywood’s most famous murder mystery and turned it into a fascinating narrative that is so evocative of 1920’s Tinseltown. His fictional hero guides us on a factual…
Here is the true public, private and on-stage life of the man who won the hearts of America, Merv Griffin.
Broadway musicals - all about ‘em!
Before Oprah…before Ellen…there was Dinah Shore. She was the queen of the afternoon talk show. For over five decades, Dinah induced a state of joy into people wherever she appeared…
While working as Roger Corman’s story editor at Concorde-New Horizons Pictures, I discovered that Michael Druxman knows how to spin a good yarn. Reading his Life, Liberty & The Pursuit…
.. .Michael Druxman has done an exemplary job with this ‘Films of ’ formatted chronicle of the life of Paul Muni. Above and beyond the usual compendium of production credits…
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker is a revisionist history of Hollywood’s Golden Era and the tabloid press that covered it. Harry Pennypacker…
In 1888, the elusive serial killer, Jack the Ripper, terrorized the Whitechapel District of London. Scotland Yard was baffled. But, that same year, Jack met his match when he crossed…
Michael B. Druxman may have escaped Hollywood after forty-five years, but he also survived and thrived there all those years…hardly a feat for the faint-hearted. His entertaining and amusing memoir…
The complete story of Basil Rathbone and his amazing film career.
This is the HARDBACK version. Before Oprah…before Ellen…there was Dinah Shore. She was the queen of the afternoon talk show. For over five decades, Dinah induced a state of joy…
The best book on Basil Rathbone you’ll read.
Michael Druxman
In researching these works, Druxman interviewed dozens of performers, producers, directors, screenwriters, composers, and other film folk, who were a part of Hollywood’s Golden Era.
Warren Robert Hull
On June 20, 1947, one of the most notorious gangsters of the twentieth century, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, was murdered in the Beverly Hills mansion of his mistress, Virginia Hill. The…
