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Howard Hawks : the grey fox of Hollywood

eBook, English, 2000
First pbk. edition View all formats and editions
Grove Press, New York, 2000
Biography
1 online resource (ix, 756 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
9780802196408, 0802196403
881685889
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
Catching 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