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Format:
Book
Title:
Burt Lancaster : an American life
ISBN:
9780679446033
Edition:
1st edition.
Publication:
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [2000]
Physical Description:
ix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The Set-Up 1913-1945 -- New York City Boy -- The Daring Young Man -- The Play 1945-1960 -- Discovery -- Taking Charge of the Asylum -- The Hero Business -- Zenith -- A Cookie Full of Arsenic -- The Fall -- The Payoff 1960-1990 -- Embracing the Zeitgeist -- Burying the Heroes -- Comebacks -- The End 1990-1994 -- Fade Out -- Epitaph.
Summary:
The story of Burt Lancaster, the star of such films as Sweet smell of success, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz, The swimmer, Atlantic City, From here to eternity, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg, The leopard, 1900, and Field of Dreams, from his teenage years to the "anti-Communist witch-hunts" and on through his final years.
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