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Burt Lancaster

Author : Kate Buford
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781312001
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Burt Lancaster written by Kate Buford and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2013-07-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as Gunfight at the OK Corral and Airport. But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions – brilliantly realised in Visconti’s The Leopard – as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood. Lancaster’s liberal political views led not only to frequent clashes with the House Un-American Activities Committee and a voluminous FBI file, but also a private life that was colourful even by Hollywood standards. Although a devoted father and husband (to three wives), the actor took numerous lovers – of both sexes. In his sexual tastes as in his choice of roles, he defied classification. Kate Buford’s definitive biography offers a full, frank, sensitive and compelling portrait of the star of Atlantic City, From Here to Eternity and Elmer Gantry (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar). Lancaster emerges as a man of restless energy, relentless curiosity and continual development as an actor: a star every bit as interesting offscreen as on. As one American reviewer put it: ‘Not many film stars receive first-class biographies; Burt Lancaster not only deserved one, he got one.’ Acclaimed biographer Kate Buford has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio in the United States since 1994.

Against Type

Author : Gary Fishgall
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Type written by Gary Fishgall and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of one of Hollywood's most enduring and innovative stars. In a glorious career that spanned the final days of Hollywood's Golden Age to the advent of the miniseries, Burt Lancaster chalked up more than 80 films. From his poverty-stricken childhood in East Harlem to his delibilitating stroke in 1990, this book tells the complete story of this true screen legend. 16 pages of photos.

Burt Lancaster

Author : Ed Andreychuk
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476606498
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Burt Lancaster written by Ed Andreychuk and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a career in films spanning nearly fifty years, Burt Lancaster brought his unique charisma and energy to roles in films ranging from the adventurous to the bittersweet. This comprehensive filmography of Lancaster's career is accompanied by a biography that provides the background for his immense range of work on the screen. Production information, a synopsis, and commentary is provided for each of Lancaster's 85 films, from the first--The Killers--to the last--Separate But Equal. Photographs from nearly all of Lancaster's films accompany the text, and an index and bibliography are also included.

Burt Lancaster

Author : Minty Clinch
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780812830163
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Burt Lancaster written by Minty Clinch and published by Stein & Day Pub. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the popular screen actor, describes all of his major roles, and recounts how each movie was made

Burt Lancaster

Author : Michael Munn
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780860519706
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Burt Lancaster written by Michael Munn and published by Robson Books Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Burt Lancaster, which looks at his rise to fame, the setting up of his own production company, the films in which he performed most of his own stunts, his turbulent private life and the reputation he acquired of being a tempestuous character.

The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas As Referenced in Literature

Author : Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781648892301
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas As Referenced in Literature written by Henryk Hoffmann and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature is a study of the perception of these two Hollywood megastars and their work, as presented in the text and context of references and allusions found in world literature. This book also aims to establish the impact factor of the two actors and their major films, as well as to provide extensive data for further studies of the complex and bilateral relationships between film and literature. The pertinent quotations have been extracted from over 150 works--novels, short stories, plays, poems and some nonfiction biographies and memoirs (excluding those focused on film celebrities)--by more than 120 authors. The main body of the book consists of two parts, each devoted to one actor and each having five identical sections. In the first section, references to the actor's films are discussed while the second section presents references to the actor himself. The third section shows the complete list of references found to the actor and his films, including references not mentioned in the first two sections--either because of their relative insignificance, the lack of an English translation in case of foreign-language works or repetitiveness and/or abundance in a given work. The fourth section offers the credits of the films referenced, and the fifth section presents the actor's complete monographic bibliography. The third part of the book, 'Epilogue: Final Remarks and Conclusions, ' provides an analysis and classification of all the references and allusions presented in the main body, and it elaborates on the friendship of the two actors. College professors and students interested in film studies, particularly film analysis and criticism, film perception and film genres, will find this book of great interest. It will also appeal to people interested in biographical books on movie personalities and movie fans, especially those interested in westerns, film noir and the careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature

Author : Henryk Hoffmann
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648890849
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature written by Henryk Hoffmann and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as Referenced in Literature" is a study of the perception of these two Hollywood megastars and their work, as presented in the text and context of references and allusions found in world literature. This book also aims to establish the impact factor of the two actors and their major films, as well as to provide extensive data for further studies of the complex and bilateral relationships between film and literature. The pertinent quotations have been extracted from over 150 works—novels, short stories, plays, poems and some nonfiction biographies and memoirs (excluding those focused on film celebrities)—by more than 120 authors. The main body of the book consists of two parts, each devoted to one actor and each having five identical sections. In the first section, references to the actor’s films are discussed while the second section presents references to the actor himself. The third section shows the complete list of references found to the actor and his films, including references not mentioned in the first two sections—either because of their relative insignificance, the lack of an English translation in case of foreign-language works or repetitiveness and/or abundance in a given work. The fourth section offers the credits of the films referenced, and the fifth section presents the actor’s complete monographic bibliography. The third part of the book, ‘Epilogue: Final Remarks and Conclusions,’ provides an analysis and classification of all the references and allusions presented in the main body, and it elaborates on the friendship of the two actors. College professors and students interested in film studies, particularly film analysis and criticism, film perception and film genres, will find this book of great interest. It will also appeal to people interested in biographical books on movie personalities and movie fans, especially those interested in westerns, film noir and the careers of Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.

Elmer Gantry

Author : Sinclair Lewis
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Elmer Gantry written by Sinclair Lewis and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-01-01T20:36:53Z with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elmer Gantry isn’t suited to be a lawyer, so he becomes a preacher instead. Although he experiences a variety of failures, and even more successes, Gantry ultimately finds this new career path suits him very well indeed—despite his drinking and womanizing. Throughout his time as a preacher Gantry progresses through the hierarchies of the Baptist and Methodist churches, dabbles in revivalism and “New Thought,” and even experiments with politics, all the while emerging from scandals relatively unscathed and ready to move onward and upward once again. Sinclair Lewis published the satirical Elmer Gantry in 1927 much to the dismay of the religious community. It was denounced from the pulpit, banned by many, and even engendered threats of violence. Despite this—or perhaps because of it—it went on to become a massive success and the best selling novel of that year. One of the most savage satirical assaults against institutionalized religion and its hypocrisy in American literature, Elmer Gantry continues to be a window into a particularly important aspect of American history. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

On Wings of Eagles

Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101175389
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book On Wings of Eagles written by Ken Follett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-09-03 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 bestselling author Ken Follett tells the inspiring true story of the Middle East hostage crisis that began in 1978, and of the unconventional means one American used to save his countrymen. . . . When two of his employees were held hostage in a heavily guarded prison fortress in Iran, one man took matters into his own hands: businessman H. Ross Perot. His team consisted of a group of volunteers from the executive ranks of his corporation, handpicked and trained by a retired Green Beret officer. To free the imprisoned Americans, they would face incalculable odds on a mission that only true heroes would have dared. . . .

Earth Abides

Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0899683703
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Earth Abides written by George R. Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Mule for the Marquesa

Author : Frank O'Rourke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mule for the Marquesa written by Frank O'Rourke and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saga of a group of soldiers of fortune who are hired to rescue a kidnapped Marquesa being held for ransom. Set in Mexico, near the end of the Revolution.

Lee Marvin

Author : Dwayne Epstein
Publisher : IPG
ISBN 13 : 1936182416
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Lee Marvin written by Dwayne Epstein and published by IPG. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length, authoritative, and detailed story of the iconic actor's life to go beyond the Hollywood scandal-sheet reporting of earlier books, this account offers an appreciation for the man and his acting career and the classic films he starred in, painting a portrait of an individual who took great risks in his acting and career. Although Lee Marvin is best known for his icy tough guy roles—such as his chilling titular villain in The ManWho Shot Liberty Valance or the paternal yet brutally realistic platoon leader in The Big Red One—very little is known of his personal life; his family background; his experiences in WWII; his relationship with his father, family, friends, wives; and his ongoing battles with alcoholism, rage, and depression, occasioned by his postwar PTSD. Now, after years of researching and compiling interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues; rare photographs; and illustrative material, Hollywood writer Dwayne Epstein provides a full understanding and appreciation of this acting titan's place in the Hollywood pantheon in spite of his very real and human struggles.

The Rainmaker

Author : N. Richard Nash
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573614613
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Rainmaker written by N. Richard Nash and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively play was a 1954 hit on Broadway and a 1956 film. It concerns an elderly Western rancher, his three children, and an itinerant con artist who boasts he can save their drought-parched herd by creating rain. The major focus is on the spinster daughter, Lizzie Curry, who naturally falls for the con artist. The relationship is aided by that fact that Lizzie's father and two brothers seem more worried about her marital prospects than about the drought that's killing their cattle.

The Leopard

Author : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 067940757X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The Leopard written by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 1991-10-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel” (The New Yorker), THE LEOPARD is one of the best-selling Italian novels of the twentieth century and an acclaimed masterpiece of world literature. This beautiful hardcover edition, translated by Archibald Colquhoun, also includes two short stories and a brief memoir of the author’s childhood. Set in Sicily in the 1860s, during the tumult of Italian unification, THE LEOPARD tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, fading aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of revolution and democracy. Its author, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, who was the last in a line of Sicilian princes, wrote the novel in the 1950s, inspired by the decline of his own family. Don Fabrizio Corbera, Prince of Salina, remains skeptical and stoic as he finds himself beset by civil war, social change, and his family’s loss of wealth and status. While his beloved nephew, Tancredi, more practical and flexible than he, joins the nationalist rebels and marries the ambitious daughter of a newly rich upstart, Don Fabrizio takes refuge in his love of astronomy, gazing at the unchanging stars while the world as he has known it crumbles around him. The dramatic sweep and richness of Lampedusa’s observation, his seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and his sure grasp of human frailty imbue THE LEOPARD with its melancholy beauty and power. “No novel in Italian literature has aroused so much passion or caused so much argument… The book is more than the memorable invocation of a certain place in a certain epoch. It is a work of art that will survive, long after the last sad palaces of Palermo have gone, because it deals with the central problems of the human experience.” —from the Introduction by David Gilmour "The genius of its author and the thrill it gives the reader are probably for all time."—The New York Times Book Review "A masterwork . . . A superb novel in the great tradition and the grand manner."—Newsweek Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

Robert Aldrich

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578066025
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Robert Aldrich written by Robert Aldrich and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of interviews, the filmmaker tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Burt Reynolds, and many others

Male Armor

Author : Jon Robert Adams
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813927528
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Male Armor written by Jon Robert Adams and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Male Armor, Jon Robert Adams examines the ways in which novels, plays, and films about America's late-twentieth-century wars reflect altering perceptions of masculinity in the culture at large. He highlights the gap between the cultural conception of masculinity and the individual experience of it, and exposes the myth of war as an experience that verifies manhood." "Drawing on a wide range of work, from the war novels of Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, James Jones, and Joseph Heller to David Rabe's play Streamers and Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, Adams examines the evolving image of the soldier from World War I to Operation Desert Storm. In discussing these changing perceptions of masculinity, he reveals how works about war in the late twentieth century attempt to eradicate inconsistencies among American civilian conceptions of war, the military's expectations of the soldier, and the soldier's experience of combat. Adams argues that these inconsistencies are largely responsible not only for continuing support of the war enterprise but also for the soldiers' difficulty in reintegration to civilian society upon their return."--BOOK JACKET.

Birdman of Alcatraz

Author : Thomas E. Gaddis
Publisher : Comstock Book Distributors
ISBN 13 : 9780891740551
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Birdman of Alcatraz written by Thomas E. Gaddis and published by Comstock Book Distributors. This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: