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Tall in the saddle : the life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's real cowboy / Kathryn Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Kathryn (Poet), Author.
- Series:
- Hollywood legends series http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/f8fd8e0e-426d-f107-5e85-761a6bce8fe9
- Hollywood legends series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Ben, 1918-1996.
- Johnson, Ben.
- Actors--United States--Biography.
- Actors.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Cowboys--United States--Biography.
- Cowboys.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (pages cm.).
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2026.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. Big sky and tall grass
- Chapter 2. The cowboy way of life
- Chapter 3. Hollywood and Mr. Hughes
- Chapter 4. Doubling the stars
- Chapter 5. Enter John Ford
- Chapter 6. Don't act, react
- Chapter 7. The Western Master and Wagon Master
- Chapter 8. In the crosshairs
- Chapter 9. Playing the bad guy in Shane
- Chapter 10. Rodeo champ
- Chapter 11. Back in the Hollywood saddle
- Chapter 12. Black hats and Brando
- Chapter 13. Grand adventures
- Chapter 14. The autumn of John Ford
- Chapter 15. Blood and guts and thunder
- Chapter 16. Rebranding the western
- Chapter 17. The Wild Bunch's "Traumatic Poem of Violence"
- Chapter 18. Back with Duke
- Chapter 19. A Picture Show role of a lifetime
- Chapter 20. The best little rodeo picture ever made
- Chapter 21. Getting away with Peckinpah and McQueen
- Chapter 22. Oscar acclaim
- Chapter 23. An actor in demand
- Chapter 24. Chasing Dillinger
- Chapter 25. The Spielberg express
- Chapter 26. A man to remember
- Chapter 27. Westerns ride again
- Chapter 28. "A symbol of America past"
- Chapter 29. Returning to roots
- Chapter 30. Arizona son
- Chapter 31. "Not bad for an old cowboy"
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Jones, Kathryn Tall in the saddle
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781496861573
- 1496861574
- 9781496861597
- 1496861590
- Publisher Number:
- 40033140393
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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