The Misfits (hardback)
The Film That Ended a Marriage
John Huston's 'eastern Western' signaled the end of the careers of three major Hollywood figures. It was Marilyn Monroe's last completed film. Clark Gable died a fortnight after shooting ended. Montgomery Clift rumbled on for a few years but without doing much of note. It also signaled the end of Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller. Miller wrote the screenplay as a 'gift' to his troubled wife but their marriage was already on the rocks by the time the cameras started rolling. Matters deteriorated further on the set, culminating in Monroe suffering a nervous breakdown in mid-shoot which led to the set being closed down while she recuperated.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-62933-940-5
- EAN: 9781629339405
- Produktnummer: 38810718
- Verlag: Bearmanor Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 190 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.4 cm 436 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 436
Über den Autor
Aubrey Malone is an M.A. graduate in English from University College Dublin. He has been reviewing films professionally since 1972 when he wrote for TCD Miscellany. In 1977 he became the resident film critic for Image magazine and held that position until 1989. That year he became the resident film critic for Modern Woman, a supplement of The Meath Chronicle and held that position until 2002. In 2002 he became the resident film critic for The Irish Catholic and has held that position until the present day. His reviews can be seen posted online on this website. Also, he has been a book author since 1996 and has written numerous books on the cinema: Hollyweird (Michael O'Mara Books, ( I Was a Fugitive from a Hollywood Trivia Factory (Prion/Carlton), The Rise and Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley (Leopold books), Sacred Profanity (ABC-CLIO), Censoring Hollywood (McFarland), Maureen O'Hara: The Biography (University of Kentucky Press), The Defiant One: A Biography of Tony Curtis (McFarland) Hollywood's Second Sex: The Treatment of Women in Films from 1900-1999 (McFarland). Forthcoming is a biography of Marlon Brando from Propertius Press. He also reviews books on the cinema for various publications and writes film features and profiles for journals and magazines.
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