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Raoul Walsh - The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director (Paperback)
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Raoul Walsh - The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director (Paperback)
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Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most
adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an
illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood
studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early
generation of directors -- along with John Ford and Howard Hawks --
who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth
century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's
generation invented a Hollywood that made movies seem bigger than
life itself. In the first ever full-length biography of Raoul
Walsh, author Marilyn Ann Moss recounts Walsh's life and
achievements in a career that spanned more than half a century and
produced upwards of two hundred films, many of them cinema
classics. Walsh originally entered the movie business as an actor,
playing the role of John Wilkes Booth in D. W. Griffith's The Birth
of a Nation (1915). In the same year, under Griffith's tutelage,
Walsh began to direct on his own. Soon he left Griffith's company
for Fox Pictures, where he stayed for more than twenty years. It
was later, at Warner Bros., that he began his golden period of
filmmaking. Walsh was known for his romantic flair and playful
persona. Involved in a freak auto accident in 1928, Walsh lost his
right eye and began wearing an eye patch, which earned him the
suitably dashing moniker "the one-eyed bandit." During his long and
illustrious career, he directed such heavyweights as Humphrey
Bogart, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, and Marlene Dietrich, and in
1930 he discovered future star John Wayne.
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