TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daniel,Douglass K.
TI  - Tough As Nails: The Life and Films of Richard Brooks
T2  - Wisconsin Film Studies
SN  - 9780299251239
AV  - PN1998 
U1  - 791.4302/33092 B 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992
KW  - Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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