Daniel Blum's Screen World 1962 (Volume 13)

New York: Chilton Company. Very Good+ in Poor dj. (c.1962). (Volume 13). Hardcover. [light bumping to lower corners, otherwise just minor shelfwear; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous small tears and tiny chips, paper loss at both ends of spine, creasing, light soiling, etc. (serviceable in new mylar, but that's about the best I can say)]. (B&W photographs) Provides cast/production credits for all films released in the U.S. during 1961. Front jacket panel illustrations: Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Maximilian Schell, Geraldine Page, Jeffrey Hunter. The "Promising Personalities" of the year included Connie Stevens, Warren Beatty, Susan Strasberg, George Chakiris, and Stella Stevens. This year's "Portrait Dolls of Famous Film Folk" (a feature that would, thankfully, soon be abandoned) is a group shot of doll renderings of Steve Reeves, Carole Lombard (looking exceptionally creepy), Bill Travers, and Ethel Barrymore; on the facing page is a full-length shot of Jayne Mansfield, and I had to look twice to make sure she wasn't also a doll version of herself. The volume is dedicated to Gilbert Roland. This year's obituaries are a pretty distinguished bunch, including Gary Cooper, Marion Davies, Barry Fitzgerald, Chico Marx, and Anna May Wong. .