Howard Hawks, The Grey Fox of Hollywood

New York: Grove Press, 2000. 6" wide by 9" tall. Appears unread. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Not price clipped (20.00). No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Photo illustrated. From the rear cover: "HOWARD HAWKS is the first major biography of one of Hollywood's greatest directors, a filmmaker of incomparable versatility whose body of work includes... Scarface... Bringing Up Baby... His Girl Friday... the Bogart-Bacall classics To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep... Gentlemen Prefer Blonds... The Dawn Patrol... Rio Bravo..." Filmography. List of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. From the publisher: "Howard Hawks is now regarded as one of the greatest directors ever to work in Hollywood. His career stretched from the silent era through the seventies and left an indelible stamp on American cinema. A filmmaker of incomparable versatility, he made the landmark gangster film Scarface, aviation classics (The Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings, Air Force), several of the best screwball comedies (Twentieth Century, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday), an immortal war story (Sergeant York), two sizzling Bogart-Bacall melodramas (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep), a dazzling musical (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), and several towering Westerns (Red River, Rio Bravo, El Dorado). He was Hollywood's leading star-maker, having discovered or given important roles to Lauren Bacall, Montgomery Clift, Carole Lombard, Rita Hayworth, Frances Farmer, Jane Russell, Paul Muni, Joan Collins, James Caan, and Angie Dickinson. He was the most modern of the great masters and one of the first directors to produce his own movies and declare his independence from the major studios. His work has exerted a powerful influence on such contemporary directors as Martin Scorcese, Brian DePalma, Robert Benton, John Carpenter, Walter Hill, and Quentin Tarantino. Howard Hawks was the filmmaking partner of Howard Hughes; the drinking buddy and working colleague of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway; cofounder of Hollywood's first elite motorcycle gang; an inveterate gambler constantly in trouble with gangsters; and a self-styled ladies' man whose second wife was to become the celebrated Slim Keith. This first biography of Hawks penetrates the persona he so carefully constructed for himself and reveals one of the most formidable, complex, and enigmatic figures of Hollywood's Golden Age.". 1st printing of First Softcover Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine condition. 756pp .