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Zachary Scott - Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad (Paperback)
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Zachary Scott - Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad (Paperback)
Series: Hollywood Legends Series
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Throughout the 1940s, Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was the model for
sophisticated, debonair villains in American film. His best-known
roles include a mysterious criminal in The Mask of Dimitrios and
the indolent husband in Mildred Pierce. He garnered further acclaim
for his portrayal of villains in Her Kind of Man, Danger Signal,
and South of St. Louis. Although he earned critical praise for his
performance as a heroic tenant farmer in Jean Renoir's The
Southerner, Scott never quite escaped typecasting. In Zachary
Scott: Hollywood's Sophisticated Cad, Ronald L. Davis writes an
appealing biography of the film star. Scott grew up in privileged
circumstances--his father was a distinguished physician; his
grandfather was a pioneer cattle baron--and was expected to follow
his father into medical practice. Instead, Scott began to pursue a
career in theater while studying at the University of Texas and
subsequently worked his way on a ship to England to pursue acting.
Upon his return to America, he began to look for work in New York.
Excelling on stage and screen throughout the 1940s, Scott seemed
destined for stardom. By the end of 1950, however, he had suffered
through a turbulent divorce. A rafting accident left him badly
shaken and clinically depressed. His frustration over his roles
mounted, and he began to drink heavily. He remarried and spent the
rest of his career concentrating on stage and television work.
Although Scott continued to perform occasionally in films, he never
reclaimed the level of stardom that he had in the mid-1940s. To
reconstruct Scott's life, Davis uses interviews with Scott and
colleagues and reviews, articles, and archival correspondence from
the Scott papers at the University of Texas and from the Warner
Bros. Archives. The result is a portrait of a talented actor who
was rarely allowed to show his versatility on the screen.
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