Pre-Owned Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (Hardcover) 0802115985 9780802115980

One of the greatest of directors ever to work in Hollywood, Howard Hawks was a filmmaker of incomparable versatility. Among his masterful directing feats are "Scarface, Bringing up Baby, Sergeant York, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Rio Bravo", and "The Big Sleep". Now, on the centenary of his birth, this first biography of Hawks penetrates the persona he so carefully constructed for himself to reveal one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of Hollywood's Golden Age. of photos. 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 Scarce, 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". ISBN: 9780802115980 GTIN: 09780802115980