Tough As Nails - The Life and Films of Richard Brooks

Informationen zum Autor Douglass K. Daniel is a writer and editor with the Associated Press. He is author of Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News and Lou Grant: The Making of TV's Top Newspaper Drama . Klappentext This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks, writer-director of "Elmer Gantry" and "Cat 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. Zusammenfassung This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks! writer-director of Elmer Gantry and Cat 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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• Authors: Douglass K Daniel, Douglass K. Daniel, DANIEL DOUGLASS K
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2011
• EAN: 9780299251246
• ISBN: 978-0-299-25124-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Wisconsin Film Studies; Wisconsin Studies in Film; Wisconsin Film Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet