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The Complete Greed. A reconstruction of the film in 348 still photos following the original screenplay.
Plus 52 production stills. Compiled and Annotated with a Foreword by Herman G. Weinberg.
McCARTNEY, Paul.) STROHEIM, Erich von.
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Book Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1973, 1973. Quarto. Printed card wrappers, as issued. Extremities rubbed, creases to spine and front wrapper, some light marks, internally clean. A very good copy. Portrait frontispiece, and numerous black and white photographs in the text throughout. Presentation copy inscribed by Paul McCartney of the first paperback edition (originally published in the preceding year by Arno Press) of the book that reconstructed from film stills Erich von Stroheim's infamously butchered and lost ten hour magnum opus (described in such terms as the "Holy Grail" and the "Magna Carta" of film) that was only ever shown as the two-and-a-half hour film Greed in 1924. The inscription, on the half-title, is from Paul McCartney to Bernard Herrmann, "To Benny from Paul - you'll have to supply the score for yourself - I'm sure you'll have no trouble. I hope we can work together again." Herrmann (1911-75) was a composer famous for his work for film scores; the Beatles reputedly based the strings in Eleanor Rigby on Herrmann's famous strings for Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho. Herrmann met and befriended McCartney, and helped him with with the scoring of The Family Way. This copy includes, laid in, a lengthy contemporary review of the book clipped from a magazine. Bookseller Inventory # 80007

Steven C. Smith- A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann

"That year Herrmann worked on one more film project of sorts. Although he was not asked to score The Family Way,
a gentle English comedy starring Hayley Mills and Hywell Bennett, Herrmann did give scoring advice to its first-time film composer, Beatle Paul McCartney, as a favor to producers John and Roy Boulting. In exchange for the consultation, Herrmann was given a Chagall."

Günther Kögebehn- Running with the Kids-A Conversation with Norma Herrmann June 2006

Günther Kögebehn "Before you met him, had you ever heard of him?"

Norma Herrmann "Yes. In my late teens I mixed him up with Bernard Herrmann of the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra. A lot of people made the mistake. Even the BBC made the mistake … A couple of times my Benny tried to, not sue them, but tried to get lawyers to say “Look, someone made this mistake again in print”, because the newspapers used to make it as well. And the BBC wrote: “There is no confusion between the two Bernard Herrmann’s at all.” And a week later we get his tax papers from the BBC to our address! … … … … And once we had some teenage girls climbing up the railings and ended up on our balcony, looking in the big window.… … … … Paul McCartney had gone and done an arrangement of something with Bernard Herrmann of the Northern Dance Orchestra. And I don’t know wherever they thought finding Paul McCartney at Bernard Herrmann’s… but they all climbed up the balcony shouting Paul McCartney! "