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* Read ! John Wayne: The Life and Legend by Scott Eyman ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. John Wayne: The Life and Legend Yet as Eyman carefully lays out, ‘John Wayne’ was an invention, a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actor” (The Washington Post). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne’s later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages to Latina women, and his notorious—and surprisingly long-lived—passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actor’s own business records and, of course, his storied film car
| Title | : | John Wayne: The Life and Legend |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.27 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439199590 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
A fine show-biz biography, delivering what fans want about the star’s career but probing with uncommon depth into his personality. A studio chief gave Morrison, then a young, mostly unknown actor, his new name, and over the next several decades, Morrison built a persona around it; but, as the author points out, he never legally changed his name, never really thought of himself as John Wayne. --David Pitt . The book nicely balances the personal and the professional and offers us an opportunity to get
Yet as Eyman carefully lays out, ‘John Wayne’ was an invention, a persona created layer by layer by an ambitious young actor” (The Washington Post). Eyman makes startling connections to Wayne’s later days as an anti-Communist conservative, his stormy marriages to Latina women, and his notorious—and surprisingly long-lived—passionate affair with Marlene Dietrich. He also draws on the actor’s own business records and, of course, his storied film career.“We all think we know John Wayne, in part because he seemed to be playing himself in movie after movie. The celebrated Hollywood icon comes fully to life in this complex portrait by noted film historian and master biographer Scott Eyman.Exploring Wayne’s early life with a difficult mother and a feckless father, “Eyman gets at the details that the bean-counters and myth-spinners miss…Wayne’s intimates have told things here that they’ve never told anyone else” (Los Angeles Times). This is the most nuanced and sympathetic portrait available of the man who became a symbol of his country at mid-century, a cultural icon and quintessential American male against whom other screen heroes are still compared.. The New York Times bestselling biography of John Wayne: “aut
He was formerly books editor of The Palm Beach Post. He lives with his wife, Lynn, in West Palm Beach. He also collaborated with Robert Wagner on two books. Mayer. . Scott Eyman has written thirteen books, including biographies of Hollywood legends such as John Wayne (a New York Times bestseller), Ernst Lubitsch, Cecil B. DeMille, and Louis B. He has written for The New York Times, The Wash
"Probably The Best Wayne Bio To Date" according to R PRIUS. I read the electronic pre-publication copy of this book compliments of NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are mine.I initially had no specific expectations about this book. I have read several Wayne bios and assumed that this might be a rehash of the others. To my way of thinking everything worthwhile had been said.As it turned out, either time had blurred my recollections or Scott Eyman looked at Wayne with a fresh outlook. This was a. SeattleBookMama said Thoroughly Researched and Tremendously Enjoyable. When I was young, John Wayne was everywhere. His new movies were in theaters, and his old ones were on television. I remember him primarily as the quintessential cowboy—his most oft-played role—and particularly as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit, for which he won the Academy Award. I also remember him as the first big celebrity to announce on television that “I licked the Big C.” And then, oh damn, he died of it anyway…bu. Only a third of the way through the book, Only a third of the way through the book, but I am enjoying the book. It's very hard to realize how much hard work and effort early actors put into making movies.
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