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Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director

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by Patrick McGilligan
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Availability:In StockContributor:Patrick McGilliganPublish date:2012-08-07Pages:576
Languages:EnglishPublisher:It BooksISBN-13:9780060731380ISBN-10:60731389UPC:9780060731380Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, FilmBook Topic:Direction & Production, ReferenceSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCTDEXNF59
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:It BooksISBN-13:9780060731380ISBN-10:60731389UPC:9780060731380Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Entertainment & Performing Arts, FilmBook Topic:Direction & Production, ReferenceSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCTDEXNF59
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Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; and George Cukor: A Double Life; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.

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