Wallace Reid
Subtitle: The Life And Death of a Hollywood Idol
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: February 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780786428151
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Films, cinema; Individual actors & performers; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts; Cinema/Film: Book; Film & Video - General; General; Biographies & Memoirs / Biographies; 1891-1923; Actors; Biography; Reid, Wallace,; United States
Description: "American actor Wallace Reid took part in over 160 films. This first full biography recounts Reid's complicated childhood, his disrupted family history and his rise to film stardom. The text explores in depth how the modern studio turned the popular star, a well-adjusted man with a loving family, into a drug dependant mental patient within three years"--Provided by publisher.