Dan Duryea : heel with a heart / Mike Peros.

Author
Peros, Mike [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
viii, 221 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Hollywood legends series [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213), filmography (pages 200-202) and index.
Contents
  • A Duryea overview
  • From white Plains to Broadway
  • Studio to studio, finding his footing
  • Lang and Duryea: made for each other
  • A universal man
  • Happy in Hollywood, happier away
  • Career crisis, then television calls with China Smith
  • A very busy year: Audie, Aldrich, Payne, and a Pool
  • Snowbound with Cornel Wilde; back to China; a jape with Jack Benny
  • Still smiling and yearning to be more than a villain
  • Villainy and valor in film and tv
  • On the tube, in the West, and a (short) trip to Broadway
  • Gunmen and killers, occasionally alongside son Peter
  • Reunion with Aldrich; Duryea does the Italian West; a sad parting
  • Twilight: not going gentle into that good night.
ISBN
  • 9781628462326 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
  • 1628462329 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016014275
OCLC
948826481
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