Raoul Walsh [electronic resource] : The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director /
Moss, Marilyn Ann.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky,
2011.
Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors -- along with John Ford and Howard Hawks -- who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than life itself.In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul W
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Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors -- along with John Ford and Howard Hawks -- who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than life itself.In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul W
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : a wild ride -- Becoming Raoul Walsh -- Griffith and beyond: the apprenticeship years -- Leaning forward at Fox -- The dagger, the sword, and the gun -- Pre-code Walsh : the big camera -- Salt of the earth -- Beshert : the early Warner Bros. years -- Out of the night : at home at Warner Bros. -- One thousand and one nights with Errol Flynn -- In love and war -- Oedipus wrecked : the late 1940s at Warner Bros. -- By land and by sea -- Reverie -- His kind of women -- The adventure is larger than the man -- Epilogue : Walsh's American scene.
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Walsh, Raoul, 1887-1980.
Motion picture producers and directors