Recommended reading - Jacob's Ladder, by Bruce Joel Rubin (2000)

Jacob's Ladder

by Bruce Joel Rubin

Published 2000.
Published by Applause Books.
 
ISBN-10: 155783086X
ISBN-13: 978-1557830869
 
Back cover description:
 
From the director of Fatal Attraction…
and the writer of Ghost…

Jacob’s Ladder.

Written by Bruce Joel Rubin.
An Adrian Lyne Film.
From Carolco Picture.
Produced by Alan Marshall.
Directed by Adrian Lyne.

With over 100 photographs from the film.

“… the screenplay moves from the nightmarish to the visionary … page for page, it is one of the very few screenplays I’ve read with the power to consistently raise hackles in broad daylight … Read it. It’s extraordinary.” – American Film.

“… one of the most original and powerful screenplays to be seen in Hollywood in years … One feels in the hands of a benevolent and sophisticated teller.” – Cinefantastique.

“… a humanistic thriller that hits like a thunderbolt.” – Fangoria.

The complete final shooting script in professional screenwriter’s format together with an annotated appendix of deleted scenes.

Jacob’s Chronicle, Bruce Joel Rubin’s book-length account of Jacob’s odyssey to the screen.

Applause screenplay series.

Author humor...on books:

Born on this day – Alice Brady:

Alice Brady

Actress

November 2, 1892 – October 28, 1939

Credits:

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Zenobia (1939); Joy of Living (1938); Goodbye Broadway (1938); In Old Chicago (1938); Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (1937); One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937); Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937); Call It a Day (1937); Mama Steps Out (1937); Three Smart Girls (1936); Mind Your Own Business (1936); Go West Young Man (1936); My Man Godfrey (1936); The Harvester (1936); Metropolitan (1935); Lady Tubbs (1935); Let 'em Have It (1935); Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935); The Gay Divorcee (1934); Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen (1934); Should Ladies Behave (1933); Stage Mother (1933); Broadway to Hollywood (1933); Beauty for Sale (1933); When Ladies Meet (1933); The Snow Bride (1923); The Leopardess (1923); Anna Ascends (1922); Missing Millions (1922); Hush Money (1921); Dawn of the East (1921); Little Italy (1921); The Land of Hope (1921); Out of the Chorus (1921); The New York Idea (1920); A Dark Lantern (1920); Sinners (1920); The Fear Market (1920); His Bridal Night (1919); The Redhead (1919); Marie, Ltd. (1919); The World to Live In (1919); The End of the Road (1919); The Indestructible Wife (1919); In the Hollow of Her Hand (1918); Her Great Chance (1918); The Better Half (1918); The Death Dance (1918); The Whirlpool (1918); The Ordeal of Rosetta (1918); At the Mercy of Men (1918); The Trap (1918); The Spurs of Sybil (1918); The Knife (1918); Woman and Wife (1918); Her Silent Sacrifice (1917); A Maid of Belgium (1917); Betsy Ross (1917); A Self-Made Widow (1917); The Divorce Game (1917); Maternity (1917); The Dancer's Peril (1917); A Hungry Heart (1917); A Woman Alone (1917); The Rack (1916); Bought and Paid For (1916); The Gilded Cage (1916); The Gilded Cage (1916); Miss Petticoats (1916); La vie de Bohème (1916); Tangled Fates (1916); Then I'll Come Back to You (1916); The Woman in 47 (1916); The Ballet Girl (1916); The Lure of Woman (1915); The Cup of Chance (1915); The Boss (1915); As Ye Sow (1914).

Born on this day – Burt Lancaster:

Burt Lancaster

Actor

Producer

November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994

Born on this day – Ann Rutherford:

Ann Rutherford

Actress

November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012

Credits:

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009); 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2013); 20 Questions (1952); A Christmas Carol (1938); ABC Late Night (1974); Adventures of Don Juan (1948); All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); America's Clown: An Intimate Biography of Red Skelton (2014); Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939); Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940); Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics - And Other Things (1940); Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942); Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941); Angel of Mercy (1939); Annie Laurie (1936); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Bedside Manner (1945); Bermuda Mystery (1944); Best in Film: The Greatest Movies of Our Time (2011); Bill Slater Show (1950); California's Gold (2012); Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952); Carnival in Paris (1937); Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (1940); Climax! (1955–1958); Comin' 'Round the Mountain (1936); Corazón de... (2006); Dancing Co-Ed (1939); Danger (1953); Doughnuts and Society (1936); Down to the Sea (1936); Dramatic School (1938); Easter Parade in New York (1953); Easter Parade of Stars Auto Show (1954); Espionage (1937); Flag of Mercy (1942); Four Girls in White (1939); Gene Autry, Melody of the West (1994); General Electric Theater (1953); Gone with the Wind (1939); Gone with the Wind: The Legend Lives On (2009); Good Morning America (1983); Gruen Guild Theater (1951); Happy Land (1943); Here's Hollywood (1961); Hollywood and the Stars (1964); Hollywood Greats (1979); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Inside Job (1946); I've Got a Secret (1953); Judge Hardy and Son (1939); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); Keeping Company (1940); Kraft Theatre (1957); Land of Liberty (1939); Leave It to the Girls (1949); Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941); Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema (1996); Love Find Andy Hardy Intro (2004); Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938); Love, American Style / Segments: Love and the Impossible Gift / Love and the Positive Man (1969–1973); Lux Video Theatre (1954); Meet the Stars #3: Variety Reel #1 (1941); Melody Trail (1935); MGM Parade (1955); Murder in the Music Hall (1946); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Of Human Hearts (1938); Operation Haylift (1950); Orchestra Wives (1942); Out West with the Hardys (1938); Panic! (1958); Perry Mason (1959–1964); Place the Face (1955); Playhouse 90 (1958); Pride and Prejudice (1940); Public Cowboy No. 1 (1937); Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook (1981); Robert Montgomery Presents (1953); Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 9: Sports in Hollywood (1940); Show-Business at War (1943); Stars Over Hollywood (1951); Student Tour (1934); Suspense (1953); Take It or Leave It (1944); Tales of Wells Fargo (1959); That's Entertainment III: Behind the Screen (1994); The 12th Annual Golden Boot Awards (1993); The 2th Annual American Cinema Awards (1985); The Bob Newhart Show (1973–1974); The Bride Wore Red (1937); The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942); The Devil Is Driving (1937); The Donna Reed Show (1959); The Fighting Marines (1935); The Ghost Comes Home (1940); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The Harvester (1936); The James Melton Show (1951); The Judy Garland Show (1964); The Ken Murray Show (1950); The Lawless Nineties (1936); The Linkletter Show (1952); The Lonely Trail (1936); The Madonna's Secret (1946); The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988); The Oregon Trail (1936); The Red Skelton Hour (1958); The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947); The Singing Vagabond (1935); These Glamour Girls (1939); They Only Kill Their Masters (1972); This Is Your Life (1984 / 1988); This Time for Keeps (1942); Two O'Clock Courage (1945); U.S. Marshal (1959); Unusual Occupations (1947); Visiting... with Huell Howser (2010); Washington Melodrama (1941); Waterfront Lady (1935); Whistling in Brooklyn (1943); Whistling in Dixie (1942); Whistling in the Dark (1941); Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City (1953); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Wyoming (1940); You're Only Young Once (1937).

Born on this day – Lyn Thomas:

Lyn Thomas

Actress

November 2, 1929 – August 26, 2004

Born on this day – Jack Starrett:

Jack Starrett

Actor

Director

November 2, 1936 – March 27, 1989