Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the World's Greatest Directors

By Robert Schnakenberg and Quirk Books Staff

Book Overview

Strange-But-True Tales of Cross-Dressers, Drug Addicts, Foot Fetishists, and Other Legendary Filmmakers. With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from D. W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino, Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers reveals the little-known secrets of all your favorite directors. Why did Charlie Chaplin refuse to bathe for weeks at a time? Was Alfred Hitchcock really missing a belly button? Is Walt Disney's corpse preserved in a state of suspended animation? And why on earth did Francis Ford Coppola direct a 3-D pornographic movie? The legends of the silver screen will never be the same

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594744343
• ISBN13: 9781594744341
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.9"