Heilman & Haver - Episode 19 (Guest Tracey Goessel)

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 19.  We hope you enjoy the show!

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Celebrate Quincy Jones 88th birthday with The Wiz at the Historic Roxy Theater, March 14th.

 

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Tracey Goessel

Although both a physician and an entrepreneur, Tracey Goessel’s true passion is silent film history.  In 2015 she published The First King of Hollywood, a biography of Douglas Fairbanks, dubbed by The New York Times to be “a buoyant handspring of a book … "one of the most delightful Hollywood biographies to slide down the mast in years.”  The book has just come out in paperback in 2018.  In addition, she founded the nonprofit Film Preservation Society (FPS), which has recovered and restored several silent films formerly thought to be lost or unavailable for viewing, including Fairbanks’ Mr. Fixit, The Good Bad Man, and The Halfbreed.  FPS funded the software that enables the Library of Congress to scan original paper prints of silent films from the first decade of the 1900s, and currently the goal is to restore all 485 D.W. Griffith Biograph films that were made between 1908 and 1913.

Learn More and Support FPS:

The Film Preservation Society Homepage

The Biograph Project Facebook Page

Follow the Film Preservation Society on Twitter

The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks

 

COMING UP NEXT WEEK: Next week, Friday 3/19, we’ll be joined by Casting Director Jodi Rothfield, a 34 year veteran of casting for Film, Television, and notable lead actor searches.  Jodi directed casting for such well-known films as Sleepless in Seattle, The Ring, and Empire Records and lead actors searches for The Spiderwick Chronicles, Speed Racer, Signs, Hearts in Atlantis, Stepmom, and Great Expectations.