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Howard Hawks : the grey fox of Hollywood

"Howard Hawks is now regarded as one of the greatest directors ever to work in Hollywood. His career stretched from the silent era through the seventies and left an indelible stamp on American cinema. A filmmaker of incomparable versatility, he made the landmark gangster film Scarface, aviation classics (The Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings, Air Force), several of the best screwball comedies (Twentieth Century, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday), an immortal war story (Sergeant York), two sizzling Bogart-Bacall melodramas (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep), a dazzling musical (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), and several towering Westerns (Red River, Rio Bravo, El Dorado)." "He was Hollywood's leading starmaker, having discovered or given important roles to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, Carole Lombard, Rita Hayworth, Frances Farmer, Jane Russell, Paul Muni, Joan Collins, James Caan, and Angie Dickinson." "Howard Hawks was the filmmaking partner of Howard Hughes; the drinking buddy and working colleague of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway; cofounder of Hollywood's first elite motorcycle gang; an inveterate gambler constantly in trouble with gangsters; and a self-styled ladies' man whose second wife was to become the celebrated Slim Keith. This first biography of Hawks penetrates the persona he so carefully constructed for himself and reveals one of the most formidable, complex, and enigmatic figures of Hollywood's Golden Age."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1997
Grove Press, New York, ©1997
Motion pictures
ix, 756 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780802115980, 9780802137401, 0802115985, 0802137407
35919352
Introduction: The engineer as poet
Origins
Boy of Privilege
Rich kid in hollywood
Showtime
The sound barrier
A new dawn
The Criminal Code
Tough guys: Hughes, Hecht, Hays, and Scarface
Back to Warners: The Crowd Roars
Tiger Shark
Sidetracked at MGM: Faulkner, Thalberg and Today We Live
Viva Villa!
Screwball: Twentieth Century
Barbary Coast
Flying high: Ceiling Zero
The Road to Glory
Include me out: Come and Get It
Big spender: RKO, Gunga Din, and Bringing Up Baby
Only angels
His Girl Friday
Slim, Hemingway, and An Outlaw
Sergeant York
Cathing fire
Air Force
The Bel-air front
Not in the script: To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep
The urge to independence: Red River
Slim walks, money talks
Skirting trouble: I Was A Male War Bride
An old boss, a new mate
The fox at fox: Monkey Business and Gentlemen Prefer Blonds
In the land of the pharaohs
Sojourn in Europe
Bravo
Fun in the bush: Hatari!
A fishy story: Man's Favorite Sport?
Fast cars and young women
The last roundup
From sand to dust
Posterity