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Print the Legend
Scott Eyman
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Description for Print the Legend
Paperback. The definitive biography of one of Hollywood's greatest film makers, five years in the making and written with the full cooperation of John Ford's estate. Num Pages: 640 pages, 2-16pp inserts. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 227 x 55. Weight in Grams: 674.
Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films-among them such American masterpieces asThe Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley-John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, he was reticent about his personal life. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to ... Read more
Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films-among them such American masterpieces asThe Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley-John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, he was reticent about his personal life. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781476797724
SKU
V9781476797724
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About Scott Eyman
Scott Eyman was formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post and is the author or coauthor of sixteen books, including the bestseller John Wayne and Pieces of My Heart and You Must Remember This with actor Robert Wagner. Eyman also writes book reviews for The Wall Street Journal, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He and his wife, Lynn, live in ... Read more
Reviews for Print the Legend
"Eyman has emerged as one of the most distinguished and reliable of popular film historians. Print the Legend displays his broad knowledge, his tact, his willingness to credit other writers, his capacity to avoid sensationalism but not to flinch from difficult truths."
Robert Sklar, Washington Post Book World
Review
"Everything about this model biography is a pleasure."
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Robert Sklar, Washington Post Book World
Review
"Everything about this model biography is a pleasure."
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