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Item Details
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JAMES WHALE
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| By: |
James Curtis, Kevin Brownlow (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571192858 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571192854 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 1998 |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Description: |
A biography of the 1930s film director, James Whale, best known for "Frankenstein" and subsequent horror classics, whose success was short-lived. His career faltered and, being openly homosexual, he found work increasingly hard to get. He eventually committed suicide. |
| Synopsis: |
James Whale directed some of the most stylish and unusual movies of the 1930s but he was most successful in a genre he virtually invented. For it was Whale who, in 1931, took a lanky, middle-aged actor and sometime truck-driver named Boris Karloff and cast him as the tragic, patchwork creature of the original Frankenstein. But Whale's success was short-lived. His career faltered and, being openly gay, he found work increasingly hard to get. He quit just ten years after the triumph of Frankenstein, and died a suicide only months before the film's eventual release on television. James Curtis has written the definitive account of the life of this innovative and stylish director. |
| Illustrations: |
8pp b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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