Exploring both the public person and the private person, Swindell suggests that the real Gary Cooper was the antithesis of his good-guy screen image, hinting at extramarital affairs and bisexuality

The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper

Swindell, Larry

Humor & Entertainment

DOUBLEDAY

The reminiscences of friends and colleagues play a definitive role in an account of the personal life and film career of actor Charles Boyer, who committed suicide in 1977, following the tragic death of his wife

Charles Boyer: The Reluctant Lover

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Spencer Tracy

Biographies & Memoirs

Signet

SPENCER TRACY.

Uninhibited, vivacious, and a startling talent, Carole Lombard was the darling of her day. Her wit and charm made her the social as well as artistic hub around which Hollywood revolved during the '30's. She was years before her time in her sophistication, and her independence established her as an oracle of the New Woman. She was an enchanting beauty and a great artist—the supreme comedienne during the high point of American film comedy. Larry Swindell vividly recreates her career and extraordinary personal life. Her fabled love affair and marriage with Clark Gable are here put into proper focus for the first time. Told by a master chronicler o f the movies, this is a vibrant biography of the hometown girl who became one of greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age.

Screwball: The life of Carole Lombard

Morrow

“I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.” John Garfield 
Before there was Brando and James Dean, there was John Garfield. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, young Jacob Julius Garfinkle’s talent and charisma carried him from membership in some of the Bronx’s toughest street gangs to the boards of the prestigious American Laboratory Theater. 
As mercurial as he was talented, Garfield chafed at what he deemed “unfair” casting choices in New York and headed west to Hollywood, scoring an Academy Award nomination for his very first film role. 
Strong-willed, and with a gambler’s bravado, Garfield was one of the first Hollywood stars to buck the studio system and start his own independent production company before being caught up in the career-jeopardizing web of McCarthyism.
Author Larry Swindell tells the tortured tale of this cult movie icon, whose incredible talent and turbulent lifestyle made his tragically short life so compelling decades after his death.

Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield

Gary Cooper was the foremost American screen hero—a major film actor for over thirty years, beginning with the silents. His stardom eclipsed even such successors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. This first major biography of the hero of High Noon captures the enigmatic essence of filmland's favorite cowboy. The contrast of his public reticence and private sophistication made "Coop" a paradox not even the press could unravel. It surprised many that this cowpoke could dazzle moviegoers with his blue eyes and quiet intensity. Nevertheless, he epitomized both innocence and rakishness in a combination that was irresistible both on and off the screen. It made him one of the wealthiest and most sought-after stars in the Hollywood firmament. In his startling transformation from Montana cowboy to international playboy, Cooper attracted such vampish lovers as Clara Bow and Lupe Velez, and such savant acquaintances as Hemingway and Picasso. Yet he was the most humble and sincere cosmopolitan who ever raced through Beverly Hills in a Dusenberg. His life was like one of the movies in which he invariably "played himself"—warmly and winningly. The Last Hero is an in-depth portrait of one of America's best-loved "good guys," a close-up look at Gary Cooper, both man and myth. Readers interested in related titles from Larry Swindell will also want to see: Body and Soul (ISBN: 9781626546158), Charles Boyer (ISBN: 9781626546103), Screwball (ISBN: 9781626546257), Spencer Tracy; a biography (ISBN: 9781626548077 ).

Arts & Literature

Echo Point Books & Media

Charles Boyer, the "great lover" was the definition of polished European virility in the thirties and forties, and mesmerized his costars wit the same masterful ease that wooed his fans into theaters. Larry Swindell shows here that although this consummate actor, son of French bourgeoisie, always retained a balanced perspective in the face of his worldwide celebrity, the public did not. The Boyer myth grew to such proportion that it achieved a life of its own. Much like Bogart's "Play it again, Sam," Boyer's "Come wiz me to zee casbah," was never spoken by him except in the popular imagination. In this richly detailed biography, Larry Swindell dispels the myths and reveals the professional and personal contrasts of a man whose career began in ways more fabulous than the imaginings of any studio publicity department: he rose from obscurity to become the overnight sensation of Parisian theater when, on twenty-four hours' notice, he replaced the ailing lead in a major production. A dazzling survivor in an industry of notorious failures, he was passionately devoted to his art, his country, and his wife. With the Golden Age of Hollywood as a backdrop, Boyer's private and professional lives are explored: His reputation as the "great louvair," (enhanced as much by his real-life romance with his wife as by the casting with such leading ladies as Dietrich, Garbo, and Hepburn), his involvement with the French Resistance movement, and his friendships with such Hollywood greats as Henry Fonda, David Niven, and Ingrid Bergman. Readers interested in related titles from Larry Swindell will also want to see: Body and Soul (ISBN: 9781626546158), Screwball (ISBN: 9781626546257), Spencer Tracy; a biography (ISBN: 9781626548077), The Last Hero (ISBN: 9781626545649).

“I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.” John Garfield 
Before there was Brando and James Dean, there was John Garfield. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, young Jacob Julius Garfinkle’s talent and charisma carried him from membership in some of the Bronx’s toughest street gangs to the boards of the prestigious American Laboratory Theater. 
As mercurial as he was talented, Garfield chafed at what he deemed “unfair” casting choices in New York and headed west to Hollywood, scoring an Academy Award nomination for his very first film role. 
Strong-willed, and with a gambler’s bravado, Garfield was one of the first Hollywood stars to buck the studio system and start his own independent production company before being caught up in the career-jeopardizing web of McCarthyism.
Author Larry Swindell tells the tortured tale of this cult movie icon, whose incredible talent and turbulent lifestyle made his tragically short life so compelling decades after his death. Readers interested in related titles from Larry Swindell will also want to see: Charles Boyer (ISBN: 9781626546103), Screwball (ISBN: 9781626546257), Spencer Tracy; a biography (ISBN: 9781626548077), The Last Hero (ISBN: 9781626545649).

Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

“I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning.”  John Garfield Before there was Brando and James Dean, there was John Garfield. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, young Jacob Julius Garfinkle’s talent and charisma carried him from membership in some of the Bronx’s toughest street gangs to the boards of the prestigious American Laboratory Theater.  As mercurial as he was talented, Garfield chafed at what he deemed “unfair” casting choices in New York and headed west to Hollywood, scoring an Academy Award nomination for his very first film role. Strong-willed, and with a gambler’s bravado, Garfield was one of the first Hollywood stars to buck the studio system and start his own independent production company before being caught up in the career-jeopardizing web of McCarthyism.Author Larry Swindell tells the tortured tale of this cult movie icon, whose incredible talent and turbulent lifestyle made his tragically short life so compelling decades after his death. 

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The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper

Charles Boyer: The Reluctant Lover

Spencer Tracy

SPENCER TRACY.

Screwball: The life of Carole Lombard

Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield

The Last Hero: A Biography of Gary Cooper

Charles Boyer: The Reluctant Lover

Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield

Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield