Film Historian John DiLeo Gets Singled Out

Yes, John DiLeo, author of TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY:HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS, SCREEN SAVERS: 40 REMARKABLE MOVIES AWAITING REDISCOVERY, and the forthcoming SCREEN SAVERS II (March 2012), was singled out earlier this month, but not in the usual way.

Hansen Publishing Group has broken his books TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY:HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS, and SCREEN SAVERS: 40 REMARKABLE MOVIES AWAITING REDISCOVERY into single electronic chapters that are available for sale as ebooks at Amazon.com, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes and Noble.com and Kobo. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY chapters are focused on individual actors who starred in two or more Tennessee Williams’ films. The list of eleven actors includes Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Vivien Leigh and others. SCREEN SAVERS features forty chapters devoted classic twentieth-century movies that need rediscovery like The Man Who Laughs (1928), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), One Way Passage (1932), It Started With Eve (1941), Rachel and the Stranger (1948),  Portrait of Jennie (1948), The Big Country (1958), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Hour of the Gun (1967), Two for the Road (1967) and Time After Time (1979), to name only a few.

It is our hope that new readers will discover John DiLeo’s work while searching for information about a film or an actor. The electronic singles are priced modestly, so general readers and researchers will find great value in them and expand their curiosity to the larger works by John DiLeo. The chapters from TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY:HIS ESSENTIAL SCREEN ACTORS are priced at $2.99 each while the chapters from SCREEN SAVERS: 40 REMARKABLE MOVIES AWAITING REDISCOVERY are priced at $.99 each. All are now available on either the Kindle, the iPad, the Nook and the Kobo reader.

John DiLeo’s next book with Hansen Publishing Group is SCREEN SAVERS II: MY GRAB BAG OF CLASSIC MOVIES (releasing March 2012) which features more essays about classic twentieth-century films, featured blogs from screensaversmovies.com, and eighty-five quizes for golden age movie lovers.