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Wallace Reid
- The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol
Engelsk Paperback
Wallace Reid
- The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol
Engelsk Paperback

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For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognized face in Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today all that is widely remembered of "Wally" Reid is that he died in a padded sanitarium cell, the victim of a fatal morphine addiction. Of all the actors who have enjoyed great fame only to vanish from the public eye, Reid perhaps fell the fastest and the hardest.

This first full biography recounts Reid''s complicated childhood, his disrupted family history and his rise to film stardom despite these restricting factors. It documents his myriad talents and accomplishments, most notably his gift for brilliant onscreen acting. The text explores in depth how the modern studio, however unconsciously, turned the popular star, a well-adjusted man with a loving family, into a drug-dependent mental patient within three years. His death rocked the foundations of Hollywood, and the huge new industry that he helped build nearly died with "Dashing Wally Reid."

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9780786477258
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786477253
Udg. Dato:
8 nov 2013
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
177mm
Højde:
255mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
8 nov 2013
Forfatter(e):
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