Howard Hawks: the Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd Mccarthy

Howard Hawks: the Grey Fox of Hollywood by Todd Mccarthy

Howard Hawks is the first major biography of one of Hollywood's greatest directors, a filmmaker of incomparable versatility whose body of work includes the landmark gangster film Scarface, screwball comedies like Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, the Bogart-Bacall classics To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, the musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and aviation classics and Westerns like The Dawn Patrol and Rio Bravo. Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Hawks was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to declare his independence from the major studios. He played Svengali to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, and others, but Hawks's greatest creation may have been himself. As The Atlantic Monthly noted, Todd McCarthy . . . has gone further than anyone else in sorting out the truths and lies of the life, the skills and the insight and the self-deceptions of the work. A fluent biography of the great director, a frequently rotten guy but one whose artistic independence and standards of film morality never failed. -- The New York Times Book Review; Hawks's life, until now rather an enigma, has been put into focus and made one with his art in Todd McCarthy's wise and funny Howard Hawks. -- The Wall Street Journal; Excellent . . . a respectful, exhaustive, and appropriately smartass look at Hollywood's most versatile director. -- Newsweek.

Todd McCarthy has been Variety's chief film critic for many years. He is the author of Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, a 1997 biography widely regarded as one of the best biographies of a cinema director. McCarthy received an Emmy for writing Preston Sturges: the Rise and Fall of An American Genius, and he created and co-directed the award-winning documentary film Visions of Light: The Art of Photography. Many anthologies and publications have featured his writing, including Esquire, Film Comment, Los Angeles, and Cahiers du Cinema.

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ISBN 13	9780802115980
ISBN 10	0802115985
Title	Howard Hawks: the Grey Fox of Hollywood
Author	Todd Mccarthy
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Year published	1997-05-01
Number of pages	756
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