Tough As Nails : The Life and Films of Richard Brooks.
Daniel, Douglass K.
Tough As Nails : The Life and Films of Richard Brooks. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (262 pages) - Wisconsin Film Studies . - Wisconsin Film Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hollywood by Way of Philadelphia -- 2. Writing Movies at Home and at War -- 3. Swell Guys, Brutes, and the Blacklist -- 4. In the Director's Chair at MGM -- 5. Writing and Rocking around the Clock -- 6. Taking Literature from Page to Screen -- 7. Independence and That Old-Time Religion -- 8. Two Hits and One Major Miss -- 9. A Journey into Capote Country -- 10. On Marriage, Larceny, and America's Beauty -- 11. New Directions and Two Wrong Turns -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Notes on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks, writer-director ofElmer GantryandCat on a Hot Tin Roof, restores to importance the career of one of the mid-twentieth century's most influential Hollywood figures and includes analysis of Brooks's filmography and interviews with stars Sidney Poitier and Jean Simmons, Brooks's wife for twenty years.
9780299251239
Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN1998
791.4302/33092 B
Tough As Nails : The Life and Films of Richard Brooks. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (262 pages) - Wisconsin Film Studies . - Wisconsin Film Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hollywood by Way of Philadelphia -- 2. Writing Movies at Home and at War -- 3. Swell Guys, Brutes, and the Blacklist -- 4. In the Director's Chair at MGM -- 5. Writing and Rocking around the Clock -- 6. Taking Literature from Page to Screen -- 7. Independence and That Old-Time Religion -- 8. Two Hits and One Major Miss -- 9. A Journey into Capote Country -- 10. On Marriage, Larceny, and America's Beauty -- 11. New Directions and Two Wrong Turns -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Notes on Sources -- Bibliography -- Index.
This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks, writer-director ofElmer GantryandCat on a Hot Tin Roof, restores to importance the career of one of the mid-twentieth century's most influential Hollywood figures and includes analysis of Brooks's filmography and interviews with stars Sidney Poitier and Jean Simmons, Brooks's wife for twenty years.
9780299251239
Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN1998
791.4302/33092 B