《Tough Without A Gun》是Random House US在2011年出版的圖書。作者是Stefan Kanfer.
基本介紹
- 書名：Tough Without A Gun
- 作者：Stefan Kanfer
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9780307271006
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Humphrey Bogart: it’s hard to think of anyone who’s had thesame lasting impact on the culture of movies. Though he died at theyoung age of fifty-seven more than half a century ago, hisinfluence among actors and filmmakers, and his enduring appeal forfilm lovers around the world, remains as strong as ever. What is itabout Bogart, with his unconventional looks and noticeable speechimpediment, that has captured our collective imagination for solong? In this definitive biography, Stefan Kanfer answers thatquestion, along the way illuminating the private man Bogart was andshining the spotlight on some of the greatest performances evercaptured on celluloid.
Bogart fell into show business almost by accident and worked fornearly twenty years before becoming the star we know today. Borninto a life of wealth and privilege in turn-of-the-century NewYork, Bogart was a troublemaker throughout his youth, gettingkicked out of prep school and running away to join the navy at theage of nineteen. After a short, undistinguished stint at sea,Bogart spent his early twenties drifting aimlessly from oneill-fitting career to another, until, through a childhood friend,he got his first theater job. Working first as a stagehand andthen, reluctantly, as a bit-part player, Bogart cut his teeth inone forgettable role after another. But it was here he began todevelop a work ethic; deciding that there were “two kinds of men:professionals and bums,” Bogart, for the first time in his life,wanted to be the former.
After the Crash of ’29, Bogart headed west to try his luck inHollywood. That luck was scarce, and he slogged through more thanthirty B-movie roles before his drinking buddy John Huston wrotehim a part that would change everything; with High Sierra, Bogartfinally broke through at the age of forty—being a pro had paidoff.
What followed was a string of movies we have come to know as themost beloved classics of American cinema: The Maltese Falcon,Casablanca, The Big Sleep, The African Queen . . . the list goes onand on. Kanfer appraises each of the films with an unfailingcritical eye, weaving in lively accounts of behind-the-scenes funand friendships, including, of course, the great love story ofBogart and Bacall. What emerges in these pages is the portrait of agreat Hollywood life, and the final word on why there can only everbe one Bogie.
圖書目錄
Introduction
1. The End Depends on the Beginning
2. Let Me Know When You Want to Be Killed
3. Incorrodible as a Zinc Bar
4. Bogart Can Be Tough Without a Gun
5. May You Never Die Till I Kill You
6. Cut the Gab and Bring Me an Order of Fried Rabbit
7. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. Nothing!
8. Storm-Tossed by Fate
9. Breathless
10. The Greatest Gift
The Credits
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
作者簡介
Stefan Kanfer’s books include Ball of Fire: The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball; Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America; and Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando. He was a writer and editor at Time for more than twenty years and was its first bylined film critic, a post he held between 1967 and 1972. He is also the primary interviewer in the Academy Award–nominated documentary The Line King and editor of an anthology of Groucho Marx’s comedy, The Essential Groucho. He is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and recipient of numerous writing awards. He lives in New York and on Cape Cod.
