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Chaplin and Agee : the untold story of the tramp, the writer, and the lost screenplay / John Wranovics.
LIBRA - Special PS3501.G35 Z95 2005b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wranovics, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agee, James, 1909-1955--Motion picture plays.
- Agee, James.
- Agee, James, 1909-1955.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Motion picture authorship.
- Motion picture plays.
- United States.
- Motion picture authorship--United States.
- Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.
- Chaplin, Charlie.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biographie.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 217 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- Advance Uncorrected Proofs.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- Chaplin and Agee charts the friendship between James Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Pulitzer Prize-winning A Death in the Family and screenwriter for American classics including The African Queen, and Charlie Chaplin, who starred in a staggering number of films from 1914 to 1967. This friendship emerged in the midst of the tumult of the 1940s and 1950s, with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, McCarthyism and blacklisting. In print here for the first time is Agee's first screenplay, The Tramp's New World, lost until recently. The striking screenplay--a comedy "so dark it was without precedent"--Was written for Chaplin's tramp character and set in post-apocalyptic New York. Chaplin and Agee also features many previously unpublished letters and photographs. As the story moves from Hollywood to Greenwich Village, these two figures come to life, revealing the untold story of the great bond between two influential twentieth-century artists. -- Publishers description.
- Contents:
- Prelude : the legend of James Agee
- L'affaire Verdoux
- Agee and the atom bomb
- Desperately seeking Chaplin
- On the move : Hollywood beckons
- Icarus falls
- Losing Chaplin
- The walking wounded
- Loss and legacy
- The tramp's new world / James Agee.
- Notes:
- Book description on initial page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
- OCLC:
- 922645187
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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