Jack's Life: A Biography of Jack Nicholson

Biographies & Memoirs

PATRICK MCGILLIGAN

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins Publisher

Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of Ina Lonely Place, We Can’t GoHome Again, and Rebel Without a Cause. McGilligancharts the cerebral struggles, astonishing adventures, and artistic triumphsthat defined Ray’s life, including his Hollywood collaborations with HumphreyBogart, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and James Dean;his love affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, ZsaZsa Gabor, and Gloria Grahame; his partnerships withactivist Abbie Hoffman, pornography starlet MarilynChambers, photographer Wim Wenders;and more. Celebrating, contextualizing, and examining Ray’s life and work, McGilligandelivers a milestone of film history and offers a captivating look at one ofclassic cinema’s most colorful figures.

Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director

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It Books

Illustrates the vital creative influence upon the cinema of James Cagney in his gangster, vaudeville, Western, and other film roles

Cagney: The Actor as Auteur (Quality Paperbooks Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo

Fritz Lang: Nature of the Beast, A Biography

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

st.martins press

Cagney: The actor as auteur

A.S. Barnes

Fritz Lang, director of films such as "Metropolis", "M" and "The Big Heat", established his reputation in Germany during the silent era. When Hitler rose to power, Lang emigrated to the USA, where he injected his fatalistic Expressionism into the domestic world of Hollywood cinema. This biography presents him as a flawed human being, and includes suggestions that he murdered his first wife and engaged in sado-masochistic practices both on and off the set. Patrick McGilligan has also written biographies of George Cukor, Robert Altman, Jack Nicholson and James Cagney.

Fritz Lang : The Nature of the Beast

Faber Faber Inc

Clint: The Life and the Legend

Carroll & Graf Pub.

Illustrates the vital creative influence upon the cinema of James Cagney in his gangster, vaudeville, Western, and other film roles

Cagney: The Actor as Auteur

Tantivy P

[Read by Keith Szarabajka] For the centennial of his birth, the defining wunderkind of modern entertainment gets his due in a groundbreaking new biography of his early years -- from his first forays in theater and radio to the inspiration and making of Citizen Kane.  In the history of American popular culture, there is no more dramatic story, no swifter or loftier ascent to the pinnacle of success, and no more tragic downfall than that of Orson Welles. In this magisterial biography, Patrick McGilligan brings young Orson into focus as never before. He chronicles Welles' early life growing up in Wisconsin and Illinois, as the son of an alcoholic industrialist and a radical suffragist and classical musician, and the magical early years of his career, including his marriages and affairs, his influential friendships, and his artistic collaborations.  The tales of his youthful achievements were so colorful and improbable that Welles, with his air of mischief, was often thought to have made them up. Now after years of intensive research, McGilligan sorts out fact from fiction and reveals untold, fully documented anecdotes of Welles' first exploits and triumphs, from starring as a teenager on the Gate Theatre stage in Dublin and bullfighting in Seville, to his time in the New York theater and his fraught partnership with John Houseman in the Mercury Theatre, and to his arrival in Hollywood and the making of Citizen Kane.  Filled with intriguing new insights and startling revelations -- including the surprising true origin and meaning of ''Rosebud'' -- Young Orson is a fascinating look at the creative development and influences that shaped this legendary artistic genius.

Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to 'Citizen Kane'

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

"Pitiless."—Le Monde
"A damning indictment of the man and the culture that lionizes him. " —The Washington Post
"The most thoroughly demythologizing book yet written on modern Hollywood." —The Los Angeles Times
With just one syllable, the man is identified: there can only be one Clint, the American lone wolf personified. And now, in the last few years, Clint Eastwood has become the point man for the American conservative movement, known for a certain lecture to an empty chair and his runaway hit "American Sniper."
 When this biography first appeared, it was met with critical praise for its research, and anger on the part of its subject to the point where he sued the author for $10 million: that suit, which resulted in the effective suppression of the book in the United States, was eventually settled without penalty or threat of future reprisal. Now updated and drawing on extensive interviews with intimates, legal documents and behind-the-scenes reportage on the making of his most famous (and obscure) films, Clint: The Life and Legend is, for fans as well as non-fans, the ultimate life story of this corroded pillar of Hollywood.
 This update from the original edition encompasses Clint's personal life since then - divorce, reality television, and Clint's appearance before the 2012 Republican National Convention - and all his recent films, through to the success and controversy of "American Sniper."

Clint: The Life and Legend

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