BIBLIOGRAPHY & FURTHER READING
Conventional libraries contain little information about James Booth (especially compared to the Internet , which is also an unrivaled source of memorabilia). Some of the books and articles that I've found are listed here, and more will be added as I get around to it.. If you know of other titles to list, please contact me (diana@odorofpears.com). --db
ABC Film Annual 1964 edited by Norman Taylor, Associated British Cinemas Ltd., 30/31 Golden Square, London. This book contains five articles that deal with James Booth. If a star's success can measured by mentions in the entertainment press, then 1964 was the peak of James's career.
The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense
by Al Murray
Hodder & Stoughton, 2007
The Illustrated Who's Who of the Cinema, 1983
Quinlan's Film Stars by David Quinlan, Chrysalis Books, 2000, 5th ed.
Second Faces by Laon Maybanke, Arlington Books, London, 1965
In Character: Actors Acting by Roger Ebert and Howard Schatz, Bullfinch, April 13, 2006.
All of Me by Barbara Windsor and Robin McGibbon, Headline, London, 2000
More or Less by Kenneth More, Hodder and Stoughton, 1978, ISBN 0 340 22603 X
Anything for a Quiet Life by Jack Hawkins, Elm Tree Books, Hamish Hamilton, London , 1973
Joan's Book: Joan Littlewood's Peculiar History As She Tells It by Joan Littlewood, Methuen, London,1994
What's It All About? An Autobiography by Michael Caine, Turtle Bay Books, Random House, New York, 1992
Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film, 1957-1981 by David McGillivray, sun tavern fields, 1992
Who's Who
So You Wanna Be A Director? by Ken Annekin, Tomahawk Press, 2001
ABC Film Review '64: French Dressing
British Film Character Actors: Great Names and Memorable Moments by Terence Pettigrew, Notwa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1982
Review of Fräulein Doktor from Films in Review
Review by Eugene Archer in The New York Times, 3/15/62, 28:2
Movie News, 3/70 article about Adam's Woman: "Bi-Centennary World Premier for new Australian Film"
A Thousand Clowns review, Theatre World, 7/64
Sparrows Can't Sing
National Review, 15:72 JL 30'63
Nation, 196:430, MY 18 '63
New Republic, 148:30, MY 18, '63
New Yorker, 39:169-70, MY 18, '63
Newsweek 61:105, MY 13, '63
Saturday Review 46:40, MY 11, '63
Filmfacts V. VI (1963) p. 94
Films & Filming, V. 9, N. 6, Mar. 63, 32-33
Movie, N. 7, p. 36
Sight & Sound, V. 32, N. 2 (Spring '63), 92-93
NY Times, My 7, 46:2,
NY Times, My 12 II, 1:8
NY Times, My 31, 30:1
Zulu
Bruce: The Autobiography by Bruce Forsyth, Pan Books, London, 2002, (ISBN 0 330 48876 7). Black-and-white photograph of James Booth, Stanley Baker, and Bruce Forsyth, all dressed in red tunics, performing a Zulu skit at the Palladium. (Booth has short sideburns, neatly-combed hair, no neck-scarf, so far as I can see, and a harmless expression. He's slightly dishevelled, and holding a rifle, but he's not Hook!)
With Some Guts Behind It: The Making of Zulu by Sheldon Hall, Media Enterprises, Ltd., 2005.
America III:94-5, JL 25 '64
Life 57:20 JL 3 '64
New Republic, 150:26, JE 20'64
New Yorker, 40:93 JL 18'64
Newsweek 64:85 JL 13 '64
Time 84:96, JL 10 '64
Monkey Feathers: Defending Zulu (1964) by Sheldon Hall, from "British Historical Cinema ", eds. C. Mark and A. Sargeant, pub. Rutledge, 2002. [Note: A solid refutation of all that nonsense about pro-imperialist and/ or racist tendencies in Zulu, by the leading authority on the film ].
Zulu or the Limits of Liberalism by Christopher Sharrett, Cineaste, vol. XXV, no. 4, 2000, pp. 28-33 [Note: Sharrett's take on Zulu is off base in my opinion, but this article nevertheless contains something cool and unusual: a long, vivid paragraph about Booth-as-Hook showing close observation of the film and some actual feeling for the character. ]
Observations on the film "Zulu" by John McAdam, The Journal of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Research Assoc. [Note: More than you ever wanted to know about historical inaccuracies in Zulu.]
Mr. Kipling's Army by Byron Farwell, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, 1981, ISBN 0-393-01386-3 [If watching Zulu makes you want to know more about the day-to-day lives of real 19th century British soldiers, then this is your book. Farwell describes everything-- the regiments and ranks, the uniforms, the food and manners and customs. With black-and-white illustrations.]
Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex by Katharine Gates, Juno Books, 2000, New York, NY
Body expansion fetishism and its connection to The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom are discussed in the chapter Body Inflation: To Dream the Impossible Dream, pp. 94-105.
ABC Film Review, November, 1968, The Bliss of Mistress Blossom
ABC Film Review, December, 1968, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Revenge
Films and Filming, May 1971 (Vol 17, No. 8) – .
Photospread on Revenge has two sides containing 6 pictures and no
review.
Obituary, The Scotsman, 8/15/05
Obituary, Herald,
8/17/05
Obituary, Telegraph,
8/16/05