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Charlton Heston - Hollywood's Last Icon (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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Charlton Heston - Hollywood's Last Icon (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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This is the first and definitive biography of one of the most
iconic, complex and enduring legends of Hollywood's golden age,
whose major presence in American film, radio, television, stage and
theater lasted beyond the second half of the 20th Century, and
whose classic films are known throughout the world. Written by New
York Times bestselling, prize-winning author Marc Eliot - Cary
Grant, Walt Disney, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson,
and others - with unprecedented access to the family, friends, and
Heston's private papers, diaries, journal, writings and estate, he
tells an unforgettable tale of an extraordinary life you may find
difficult to put down. Eliot's biography is rich with facts details
and anecdotal material that bring to life the complex story of this
most iconic of American popular cultural giants to illuminate
Heston's greatest achievements and his personal failures. He
examines how a small boy from the backwoods of Michigan rose to
become one of Hollywood's most legendary stars, one of the Greatest
Generation's true-life war heroes - he saw action in the Pacific
Theater during World War Two, before moving with his young wife
from Chicago to New York's Hell's Kitchen to begin their struggle
to find success in the theater. Eliot traces Heston's pioneering
work in live television, his being discovered by Hollywood because
of it, and tells the amazing saga of his three films for Cecil B.
DeMille and his two for William Wyler, including The Ten
Commandments and Ben-Hur, the latter for which he won a Best-Actor
Oscar, with fascinating new details, documents and photographs
never before seen. Eliot follows Heston through the genre of
Science Fiction, which he helped revive with Planet of the Apes,
and sheds new light on every one of Heston's iconic films. He also
examines Heston's long political involvements, from boom one of the
organizers of Hollywood's faction of marchers who joined with
Martin Luther King, Jr. for the March on Washington, to his
mentoring under Ronald Reagan for eventual presidency of the Screen
Actors Guild, to his late-in-life presidency of, the National Rifle
Association, all the while refusing the Republican Party's
continual pleas for him to run for president of the United States
after Reagan. With unprecedented cooperation with Heston's family,
and never-before-seen personal photos, documents and hand-written
letters, Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon for the first time
tells the real story of Charlton's Heston's amazing life, an
incisive, detailed, compelling portrayal, both for longtime fans,
Hollywood movie lovers everywhere and a new college and TCM
generation discovering Heston's work for the first time.
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