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1 online resource |
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Screen classics |
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Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Contents |
Prologue : a wild ride -- Becoming Raoul Walsh -- Griffith and beyond: the apprenticeship years -- Leaning forward at Fox -- The dagger, the sword, and the gun -- Pre-code Walsh : the big camera -- Salt of the earth -- Beshert : the early Warner Bros. years -- Out of the night : at home at Warner Bros. -- One thousand and one nights with Errol Flynn -- In love and war -- Oedipus wrecked : the late 1940s at Warner Bros. -- By land and by sea -- Reverie -- His kind of women -- The adventure is larger than the man -- Epilogue : Walsh's American scene |
| Summary |
Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors-along with John Ford and Howard Hawks-who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than life itself. In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul Walsh, author Marilyn Ann Moss recounts Walsh's life and achievements in a career that spanned more than half a century and produced upwards of two hundred films, many of them cinema classics. Walsh originally entered the movie business as an actor, playing the role of John Wilkes Booth in D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). In the same year, under Griffith's tutelage, Walsh began to direct on his own. Soon he left Griffith's company for Fox Pictures, where he stayed for more than twenty years. It was later, at Warner Bros., that he began his golden period of filmmaking. Walsh was known for his romantic flair and playful persona. Involved in a freak auto accident in 1928, Walsh lost his right eye and began wearing an eye patch, which earned him the suitably dashing moniker "the one-eyed bandit." During his long and illustrious career, he directed such heavyweights as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Marlene Dietrich, and in 1930 he discovered future star John Wayne |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Walsh, Raoul, 1887-1980.
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| SUBJECT |
Walsh, Raoul, 1887-1980 fast |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813133942 |
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0813133947 |
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9780813139906 |
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0813139902 |
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9780813144443 |
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0813144442 |
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9780813135595 |
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0813135591 |
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9786613099440 |
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6613099449 |
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