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Buster Keaton
From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern—and irresistible—today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago. "It is brilliant—I was totally absorbed, couldn't stop reading it and was very sorry when it ended."—Kevin Brownlow It was James Agee who christened Buster Keaton “The Great Stone Face.” Keaton’s face, Agee wrote, "ranked almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype; it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful, yet i...
Spencer Tracy
During his lifetime, Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won two. But there has been no substantial, intimate biography of the man, until now. From his earliest days in stock theatre, Tracy was a publicist's trial, guarding his private life fiercely. Most of the people associated closely with him shunned the limelight - notably his wife, his children and the great actress Katharine Hepburn, with whom he had an affair that lasted over 26 years. Although his screen roles often depicted a happy, twinkling Irishman, Tracy struggled with alchoholism to the end, a fact which the studios managed to keep out of the papers. With the help of Tracy's daughter, Susie, and access to previously unseen papers, James Curtis has now produced the definitive biography of a tortured, complex and immensely talented man. The book contains 124 integrated photos, many published for the first time.
Second Thoughts
Second Thoughts, the second book in The Kerr Chronicles, follows a brilliant and gifted young Scotsman, John Knox Kerr, as he struggles to balance influential roles in New York City and Washington, DC in the 1930s. His challenges go beyond his public persona and into a personal life marked by passion, conflict, and his own ambitious goals. His inner struggle as a man of God, and yet a very human being, resonates with something in all of us. Powerful men and women bring challenge after challenge his way as he strives to live up to his own high standards despite the temptations and opportunities that surround him.
James Curtis Bird
Sixth in a series of Company Men, this volume is a report of James Curtis Bird known descendants. This family history includes five generations and the witnessed events and notes for baptisms, marriages, burials, employment history, scrip applications, censuses, treaties, annuity payments, the Riel Rebellion, military history and obituaries. Other books in this series: Company Men, Volume 1, Cuthbert Grant Company Men, Volume 2, John Hodgson Company Men, Volume 3, Pierre Falcon dit Diverssant Company Men, Volume 4, William Hemmings Cook Company Men, Volume 5, Joseph Azure Company Men, Volume 6, John Favel Company Men, Volume 7, Etienne Morin dit Comtois Company Men, Volume 9, Olivier Larocque Company Men, Volume 10, Peter Fidler Company Men, Volume 11, Jean Baptiste Letendre
W.C. Fields
Provides a revealing glimpse of the man and artist behind the image of the gin-guzzling misanthrope, discussing Fields' Philadelphia childhood, his career in vaudeville, his turbulent personal life, and his seminal film work.
Memoirs of James Curtis Mahan
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The Gilt Kid
James Curtis belongs to a tradition of novelists, Patrick Hamilton among them, whose left-wing politics shapes not only their lives but also their fiction. Curtis used his plots to highlight the unfairness of society and dearth of opportunity that all too often leads people to break the law. The Gilt Kid (first published in 1936) focuses on a convicted burglar and Communist sympathiser, freshly realeased from prison who wastes little time in plunging back to the London underworld, a milieu that few writers have depicted with such empathy and clarity.
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The Industry of Human Happiness
A tale of love, murder and obsession in the early days of recorded sound. Set in the murky backstage world of late Victorian theatreland, The Industry of Human Happiness is about the obsessive characters who dreamed of bringing recorded music to the masses. Max and his younger cousin Rusty have a vision of launching the gramophone industry from a Covent Garden basement. But a renowned opera singer is brutally murdered in his hotel bed and they are thrust into the underworld of opium dens, brothels and extortion. Ghosts from the past and a contested inheritance turn the cousins against each other, and they go head-to-head to launch rival talking machines. With Max's sweetheart, the ambitious singer Delilah Green, caught in the middle, the pair battle rival manufacturers, London theatre owners and, ultimately, each other, for their very futures. This is a story of obsession, the pursuit of love and the enduring magic of music.
