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Wallace Reid - The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Wallace Reid - The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognised face in
Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today
all that is widely remembered of ""Wally"" Reid is that he died in
a padded sanitarium cell, the victim of a fatal morphine addiction.
Of all the actors who have enjoyed great fame only to vanish from
the public eye, Reid perhaps fell the fastest and hardest. This
first full biography recounts Reid's complicated childhood, his
disrupted family history and his rise to film stardom despite these
restricting factors. It documents his myriad talents and
accomplishments, most notably his gift for brilliant onscreen
acting. The text explores in depth how the modern studio, however
unconsciously, turned the popular star, a well-adjusted man with a
loving family, into a drug-dependent mental patient within three
years. His death rocked the foundations of Hollywood, and the huge
new industry that he helped build nearly died with ""Dashing Wally
Reid.
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