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Author : Doug Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780896215689
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (156 download)
Download or read book James Cagney, the Authorized Biography written by Doug Warren and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Cagney
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0385520263
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Cagney by Cagney written by James Cagney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.
Author : John McCabe
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307830993
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Cagney written by John McCabe and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle of this major actor's life and career, packed with history and anecdote, and profusely illustrated. Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his métier as an actor, it was not long before he was recognized as a brilliantly energetic and powerful phenomenon. After the tremendous impact of Public Enemy--in which he notoriously pushed half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face--he was typecast as a gangster because of the terrifying violence that seemed to be pent up within him. Years of pitched battle with Warner Brothers finally liberated him from those roles, and he went on to star in such triumphs as the musicals Yankee Doodle Dandy (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and Love Me or Leave Me. Even so, one of his greatest later roles involved a return to crime--as the psychopathic killer in the terrifying White Heat. He retired from films in 1961 after making Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, only to return twenty years later for Ragtime. But however much Cagney personified violence and explosive energy on the screen, in life he was a quiet, introspective, and deeply private man, a poet, painter, and environmentalist, whose marriage to his early vaudeville partner was famously loyal and happy. His story is one of the few Hollywood biographies that reflect a fulfilled life as well as a spectacular career.
Author : Mae Clarke
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810830448
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Featured Player written by Mae Clarke and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the result of conversations between writer James Curtis and Mae Clark (1910-1992), an actress who has the misfortune of being best known for a scene in which James Cagney grinds a grapefruit into her face, but whose talent and hard work in the acting business, in spite of personal misfortune, shine through. Includes an introduction by Curtis and bandw film stills. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Pavilion Books, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781862050235
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)
Download or read book James Cagney written by Richard Schickel and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis of Cagney's screen characters and career. It recounts how he began his Hollywood career, and claims that he was the movies' symbol of the aspirations of America's urban second generation. Himself the child of immigrants, Cagney represented the spirit they believed could lift them out of the ghetto to power and prosperity. The drama of his first films, mostly comedies, revolved around the energetic assertion of his sprightly self in a world that was far from sprightly - Depression America.
Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476601607
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Three Bad Men written by Scott Allen Nollen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.
Author : Michael Freedland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cagney written by Michael Freedland and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of one of Hollywood's illustrious stars.
Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9781476685168
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Warners Wiseguys written by Scott Allen Nollen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As three of the most prominent actors of the early studio system, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart played an unparalleled role in the rise of the Warner Brothers Studio. These "Warners Wiseguys" are now virtually synonymous with the studio's era of gritty gangster films. This study of their interwoven studio-contract careers highlights the similarities of their personalities and their struggles with harsh typecasting. It details and comments critically on each of their combined 112 Warners films. Complete with commentary from the author and other film buffs. An appendix provides a filmographic guide to the films discussed, including lists of primary actors, release dates, directorial credits, and running times for each film.
Author : John McCabe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book George M. Cohan written by John McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Cohan's multifaceted career in the theater and discusses his family and friends as well as contributions to Broadway.
Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
ISBN 13 : 9781557836328
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Nobody's Perfect written by Charlotte Chandler and published by Applause Theatre & Cinema. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "I, Fellini" offers a candid look at the life and career of the great film director, Billy Wilder--much of it told in his own voice. 20 photos.
Author : Oscar Zeta Acosta
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307831671
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo written by Oscar Zeta Acosta and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan appetite for food, drugs, and life on the edge. Written with uninhibited candor and manic energy, this book is Acosta's own account of coming of age as a Chicano in the psychedelic sixties, of taking on impossible cases while breaking all tile rules of courtroom conduct, and of scrambling headlong in search of a personal and cultural identity. It is a landmark of contemporary Hispanic-American literature, at once ribald, surreal, and unmistakably authentic.
Author : Scott Eyman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439199590
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book John Wayne: The Life and Legend written by Scott Eyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revelatory biography shows how both the facts and fictions about John Wayne illuminate his singular life.
Author : Barbara Payton
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780870671081
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book I Am Not Ashamed written by Barbara Payton and published by Holloway House Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Wester Anderson
Publisher : Thomas More Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780883474679
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Forever Young written by Joan Wester Anderson and published by Thomas More Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forever Young" reveals previously undisclosed details about the life of Hollywood legend Loretta Young, her children and her Catholic faith that sustained her throughout her lifetime. More than 50 photos from Young's private collection help chronicle the life of this Oscar- and Emmy Award-winning actress.
Author : Patrick McGilligan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062028642
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Alfred Hitchcock written by Patrick McGilligan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all time. In a career that spanned six decades and produced more than 60 films – including The 39 Steps, Vertigo, Psycho, and The Birds – Alfred Hitchcock set new standards for cinematic invention and storytelling. Acclaimed biographer Patrick McGilligan re-examines his life and extraordinary work, challenging perceptions of Hitchcock as the “macabre Englishman” and sexual obsessive, and reveals instead the ingenious craftsman, trickster, provocateur, and romantic. With insights into his relationships with Hollywood legends – such as Cary Grant, James Stewart, Ingrid Bergman, and Grace Kelly – as well as his 54-year marriage to Alma Reville and his inspirations in the thriller genre, the book is full of the same dark humor, cliffhanger suspense, and revelations that are synonymous with one of the most famous and misunderstood figures in cinema.
Author : Danny Trejo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198215084X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Trejo written by Danny Trejo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “If you’re a fan like I am this is definitely the book for you.” —Pete Davidson, actor, producer, and cast member on Saturday Night Live “Danny’s incredible life story shows that even though we may fall down at some point in our lives, it’s what we do when we stand back up that really counts.” —Robert Rodriguez, creator of Spy Kids, Desperado, and Machete Discover the full, fascinating, and inspirational true story of Danny Trejo’s journey from crime, prison, addiction, and loss—it’s “enough to make you believe in the possibility of a Hollywood ending” (The New York Times Book Review). On screen, Danny Trejo the actor is a baddie who has been killed at least a hundred times. He’s been shot, stabbed, hanged, chopped up, squished by an elevator, and once, was even melted into a bloody goo. Off screen, he’s a hero beloved by recovery communities and obsessed fans alike. But the real Danny Trejo is much more complicated than the legend. Raised in an abusive home, Danny struggled with heroin addiction and stints in some of the country’s most notorious state prisons—including San Quentin and Folsom—from an early age, before starring in such modern classics as Heat, From Dusk till Dawn, and Machete. Now, in this funny, painful, and suspenseful memoir, Danny takes us through the incredible ups and downs of his life, including meeting one of the world’s most notorious serial killers in prison and working with legends like Charles Bronson and Robert De Niro. An honest, unflinching, and “inspirational study in the definition of character” (Kevin Smith, director and actor), Trejo reveals how he managed the horrors of prison, rebuilt himself after finding sobriety and spirituality in solitary confinement, and draws inspiration from the adrenaline-fueled robbing heists of his past for the film roles that made him a household name. He also shares the painful contradictions in his personal life. Although he speaks everywhere from prison yards to NPR about his past to inspire countless others on their own road to recovery and redemption, he struggles to help his children with their personal battles with addiction, and to build relationships that last. Redemptive and painful, poignant and real, Trejo is a portrait of a magnificent life and an unforgettable and exceptional journey.
Author : John O'Dowd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593934446
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye written by John O'Dowd and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second, expanded edition. This is also the hardback version. Dear Barbara never had an itch she didn't scratch. - AC Lyles, Producer Barbara was like a Catholic church with a blazing neon sign out front. - Tony Provas, Barbara's fourth husband Men were fascinated by Barbara, and she knew she had them under her spell. - Bill Ramage, actor She was a worthwhile person and I only wish she had believed that. - Yvette Vickers, actress I will always love her as she, I believe, has always loved me. - John Lee Payton, Barbara's son Barbara has carved a niche in my heart, something I never expected to happy. - Lisa Burks, Franchot Tone's biographer
