num_pages: 832
description: The life and its biographer provide a landmark work on the cinema. Emerging from a childhood of nearly Dickensian darkness, David Lean found his great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations.There followed his legendary black-and-white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noel Coward. Lean's 1955 film Summertime took him from England to the world of international moviemaking and the stunning series of spectacular color epics that would gain for his work twenty-seven Academy Awards and fifty-six Academy Award nominations. All are classics, including The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Passage to India.Kevin Brownlow, a film editor in his own right and author of the seminal silent film trilogy initiated with The Parade's Gone By. . ., brings to Lean's biography an exhaustive knowledge of the art and the industry.One learns about the making of movies as realized by a mast
language: English
title: David Lean: A Biography
titlecomplete: David Lean: A Biography
characters: Fred Zinnemann, Katharine Hepburn, John Mills, Alexander Korda, John Bryan, John Box, Noël Coward, Peggy Ashcroft, Norman Spencer, Robert Bolt, Jack Hildyard, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Peter O'Toole, Carol Reed, David Lean, George Bernard Shaw, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Anne V. Coates, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, J. Arthur Rank
genres: Film, Biography, Media Tie In, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 135
publisher: St Martins Pr