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Edmond O'Brien - Everyman of Film Noir (Paperback)
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Edmond O'Brien - Everyman of Film Noir (Paperback)
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Edmond O'Brien was one of the most versatile actors of his
generation who made an abiding impact in a series of iconic noir
films. From a man reporting his own murder in D. O. A. (1949) to
the conflicted title character in The Bigamist (1953), O'Brien
delineated par excellence the confusion of an Everyman in the
complex post-war world. He created a gallery of memorable
portrayals in all mediums across the genres, from Shakespeare to
westerns and comedies; he also turned his hand to directing. His
unique talent was rewarded with an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor as the harassed press agent Oscar Muldoon in
Joseph Mankiewicz's bitter Cinderella fable The Barefoot Contessa
(1954). This first in-depth study of O'Brien charts his life and
career from the Broadway stage to Hollywood in its heyday and the
rise of television. It shows him as a devoted family man dedicated
to his art whose career was ended prematurely by mounting health
problems but whose work endures. He was always different: as he
once observed "It's from me the audience expects the unusual. I
like it that way."
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