Tough as nails : the life and films of Richard Brooks / Douglass K. Daniel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daniel, Douglass K.

Series:

Wisconsin film studies.

Wisconsin film studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992.

Brooks, Richard.

Physical Description:

x, 249 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This first biography of Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks, writer-director ofElmer GantryandCat on a Hot Tin Roof, restores to importance the career of one of the mid-twentieth century's most influential Hollywood figures and includes analysis of Brooks's filmography and interviews with stars Sidney Poitier and Jean Simmons, Brooks's wife for twenty years.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Hollywood by Way of Philadelphia

2. Writing Movies at Home and at War

3. Swell Guys, Brutes, and the Blacklist

4. In the Director's Chair at MGM

5. Writing and Rocking around the Clock

6. Taking Literature from Page to Screen

7. Independence and That Old-Time Religion

8. Two Hits and One Major Miss

9. A Journey into Capote Country

10. On Marriage, Larceny, and America's Beauty

11. New Directions and Two Wrong Turns

Conclusion

Filmography

Notes on Sources

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613077592

9781283077590

1283077590

9780299251239

0299251233

OCLC:

708037241