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050 00 $aPN1998.3.R42$bW36 1994
082 00 $a791.43/0233/092$aB$220
100 1 $aWapshott, Nicholas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83232056
240 10 $aMan between$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93094218
245 10 $aCarol Reed :$ba biography /$cNicholas Wapshott.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf :$bDistributed by Random House,$c1994.
300 $axv, 365 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published under title: The man between. London : Chatto & Windus, 1990.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [351]-352) and index.
520 1 $a"Carol Reed - director of thirty-four films, among them Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, Outcast of the Islands, Mutiny on the Bounty and, of course, the great postwar classic The Third Man." "He is fully revealed here as the complex, reticent, eccentric man of enormous gifts who understood actors and writers (he was both) and was a master of the art of telling stories, and making movies.".
520 8 $a"At the center of Reed's life was the fact of his birth: He was the illegitimate son of one of Edwardian England's great character actors, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who for fifty years dominated the London stage and whose flamboyant personality and love affairs were legend. Nicholas Wapshott shows how Reed's response to his heritage - the conflict between his shame and his pride - was reflected in the elusive, enigmatic figure he presented throughout his life.".
520 8 $a"Here is Reed as a boy with his father's theatrical colleagues (among them Bernard Shaw, W. S. Gilbert, Wilde, Whistler, Ellen Terry and James Barrie) . . . Reed landing his first job: an assistant to the bestselling thriller writer of his day, playwright and producer Edgar Wallace . . . Reed with his secret love, Daphne du Maurier (she later described the romance in her novel I'll Never Be Young Again) . . .
520 8 $aReed's marriages - first to the beloved star Diana Wynyard, then to Penelope Dudley Ward, the daughter of a mistress of Edward VIII.".
520 8 $a"We follow Reed as a young actor, assistant director and dialogue coach - and finally, a director making his first film, It Happened in Paris, from a script adapted by John Huston; Reed developing what would become the brilliant repertory company he worked with again and again: Tyrone Guthrie, Margaret Lockwood, Alastair Sim, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey and Robert Donat, among others.".
520 8 $a"We see Reed's long writing collaboration with Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, beginning when they were young men stationed together during the war. And his ten-year collaboration with Graham Greene, which resulted in Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol - and The Third Man (producer David O. Selznick opting first for Noel Coward to play Harry Lime, the part ultimately taken by Orson Welles).".
520 8 $a"Then with the death of Alexander Korda, and with the British film industry in shambles, we follow Reed to America to direct such films as Trapeze and The Key. And on to Bora Bora to direct the remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, which became the undoing of all involved." "An astute and richly alive portrait of the filmmaker and the man; a superb evocation of the British film world through half a century."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aReed, Carol,$d1906-1976.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85072254
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108011
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN1998.3.R42$iW36 1994