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John Wayne: The Life and Legend

By Scott Eyman

John Wayne: The Life and Legend

By Scott Eyman

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John Wayne died more than thirty years ago, but he remains one of today's five favorite movie stars. 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). 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. 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). 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
672
Release Date:
2015-04-21
Publication Date:
2015-04-21
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1439199590
ISBN13:
9781439199596
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
699 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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