A mad, mad, mad, mad world
A mad, mad, mad, mad world: a life in Hollywood Stanley Kramer with Thomas H. Coffey
Publisher: New York : Harcourt Brace, c1997.
ISBN: 0151549583
DDC: 791.430232092
LCC: PN1998.3
Summary:
"He proudly calls himself "the most frequently picketed producer in
movie history" - a distinction he richly earned by taking on some of
the most controversial subjects of our time. In the process, he
directed or produced such classics of the American cinema as Guess
Who's Coming to Dinner, High Noon, On the Beach, Judgment at
Nuremberg, The Defiant Ones, Champion, Inherit the Wind, Ship of
Fools, Death of a Salesman, and The Caine Mutiny." "He is Stanley
Kramer, and now for the first time he tells his story - from a
boyhood some eighty years ago in the Hell's Kitchen section of
Manhattan to the present. The actors and actresses he hired during
his long career reads like a Who's Who of the golden age of American
film: Marlon Brando, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March,
Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Lee Marvin, Kirk Douglas, Humphrey Bogart,
Robert Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Sidney Poitier, Gregory
Peck, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland,
Vivien Leigh. Unafraid and fiercely independent, Kramer is regarded
by many of today's leading filmmakers as an important forerunner for
his willingness to tell any story, treat any subject, and overturn
any sacred cow in pursuit of a film of substance."--BOOK JACKET.
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