American Film: Journal of the Film and Television Arts [magazine] (May 1978) [cover: John Ford and Monument Valley]

Washington DC: The American Film Institute. Very Good+. 1978. (Vol. III, No. 7). Periodical. NOISBN . [nice copy with just minor handling wear, narrow faded strip along bottom edge of front cover, itsy-bitsy piece missing at bottom right corner of front cover, light soiling to rear cover]. (B&W/color photographs) The cover story, "John Ford and Monument Valley," by Todd McCarthy, discusses how Ford first discovered this iconic location, and the importance it came to assume in his work. Other feature articles include: Part II of Erik Barnouw's article "The Magician and the Movies"; a profile of TV director Jay Sandrich (including a one-page sidebar about Susan Harris, producer/writer of the TV hit "Soap"); a tribute to Ernst Lubitsch, by Francois Truffaut; an Ernest Lehman column about working with Alfred Hitchcock; "Hollywood Versus the Press," by Stephen Zito; and "The Ambivalent Star," an examination of how three actors (George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Morley) coped with the demands of movie stardom (all three were then co-starring in SOMEONE IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE). The "Dialogue on Film" is with Edith Head, "the doyenne of Hollywood designers." .