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John Wayne: The Life And Legend
John Wayne: The Life And Legend
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Description: John Wayne died more than thirty years ago but he remains one of today's five favorite movie stars. The celebrated Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait by noted film historian and master biographer Scott Eyman. Exploring Wayne's early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father " Eyman gets at the details that the bean - counters and myth - spinners miss Wayne's intimates have told things here that they've never told anyone else" (Los Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne's later days as an anti - Communist conservative his stormy marriages to Latina women and his notorious - and surprisingly long - lived - passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actor's own business records and of course his storied film career. " We all think we know John Wayne in part because he seemed to be playing himself in movie after movie. Yet as Eyman carefully lays out John Wayne was an invention a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actor" (The Washington Post). This is the most nuanced and sympathetic portrait available of the man who became a symbol of his country at mid - century a cultural icon and quintessential American male against whom other screen heroes are still compared.
Title: John Wayne: The Life And Legend
Author(s): Eyman Scott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781439199596
Pages: 672 Pages
Publication Date: 4/21/2015
Category: Biography: General
Description: John Wayne died more than thirty years ago but he remains one of today's five favorite movie stars. The celebrated Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait by noted film historian and master biographer Scott Eyman. Exploring Wayne's early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father " Eyman gets at the details that the bean - counters and myth - spinners miss Wayne's intimates have told things here that they've never told anyone else" (Los Angeles Times). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne's later days as an anti - Communist conservative his stormy marriages to Latina women and his notorious - and surprisingly long - lived - passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actor's own business records and of course his storied film career. " We all think we know John Wayne in part because he seemed to be playing himself in movie after movie. Yet as Eyman carefully lays out John Wayne was an invention a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actor" (The Washington Post). This is the most nuanced and sympathetic portrait available of the man who became a symbol of his country at mid - century a cultural icon and quintessential American male against whom other screen heroes are still compared.
Title: John Wayne: The Life And Legend
Author(s): Eyman Scott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781439199596
Pages: 672 Pages
Publication Date: 4/21/2015
Category: Biography: General