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The Ivan Moffat file : life among the beautiful and damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood / edited and with a foreword and afterword by Gavin Lambert.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.O276 Z75 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moffat, Ivan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moffat, Ivan.
- Moffat, Ivan--Homes and haunts--England.
- Screenwriters--United States--Biography.
- Screenwriters.
- United States.
- England.
- London (England)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- London (England).
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- Paris (France)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- His grandfather, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, was one of the most famous actors of his day. His mother, Iris Tree, was a well-known poet-actress-adventuress. His photographer father, Curtis Moffat, came from a well-connected New York family. But Ivan Moffat's extraordinary pedigree was only the foundation upon which he built his own equally extraordinary but surprisingly active private life, populated by the leading artists and personalities of his day--from Aldous Huxley and Dylan Thomas to Preston Sturges, Igor Stravinsky, and Charlie Chaplin. Gavin Lambert presents the elegantly written autobiography that Moffat was working on at the time of his death in 2002, to which he adds letters, interviews, and screenplays from Moffat's papers, as well as his own memories of Moffat. The result is a unique recreation of the life of this flamboyant yet mysterious figure.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-315) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375422471
- OCLC:
- 54529830
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