Wallace Reid : the life and death of a Hollywood idol / E.J. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, E. J., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reid, Wallace, 1891-1923.

Reid, Wallace.

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2007]

Summary:

"American actor Wallace Reid took part in over 160 films. This first full biography recounts Reid's complicated childhood, his disrupted family history and his rise to film stardom. The text explores in depth how the modern studio turned the popular star, a well-adjusted man with a loving family, into a drug dependant mental patient within three years"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Family and Youth 3

2 Finding "the Movies" 22

3 Dorothy and the Davenports 35

4 Santa Barbara and Marriage 47

5 The Birth of a Star 64

6 Lasky's "Diamond" 78

7 Stardom 90

8 War and Work 102

9 Where's Wally? 118

10 Accident, and Addiction 134

11 "Good-Time Wally" Faces the Abyss 152

12 Barely Hanging On 167

13 The Industry Teeters, and Wally Falls 192

14 The Curtain Falls on a Tragedy 210

15 Human Wreckage 226

Actor 241

Director 257

Writer 258

As Himself 258

Archival Footage 259.

Notes:

Filmography: pages 241-259.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288) and index.

ISBN:

9780786428151

0786428155

OCLC:

76828952