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“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This line from director John Ford’s film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance serves as an epigraph for the life of the legendary filmmaker.
Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of films—among them such American masterpieces as The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, and How Green Was My Valley—John Ford managed to leave as his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on each film, he was reticent about his personal life. Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred instead to let his films speak for him. What mattered to Ford was always what was up there on the screen.
Now, in this definitive look at the life and career of one of America's true cinematic giants, noted biographer and critic Scott Eyman, working with the full participation of the Ford estate, has managed to document and delineate both aspects of John Ford’s life—the human and the legend.
Print the Legend The Life and Times of John Ford
by Eyman, ScottEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2015-03-31
Publisher(s): Simon & Schuster
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Author Biography
Scott Eyman was formerly the literary critic at The Palm Beach Post and is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, including the bestseller John Wayne and (with actor Robert Wagner) the bestsellers Pieces of My Heart and You Must Remember This. Among his other books are Hank and Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart; Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille; Lion of Hollywood: The Life and Legend of Louis B. Mayer; and Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. Eyman also writes book reviews for The Wall Street Journal, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He and his wife, Lynn, live in West Palm Beach.
Table of Contents
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Prologue
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<B>Part One</B> From Maine to Hollywood
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<B>Part Two</B> Learning a Craft
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<B>Part Three</B> Mastering an Art
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<B>Part Four</B> At War
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<B>Part Five</B> The Perils of Independence
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<B>Part Six</B> A Lion in Winter
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Epilogue<BR>
Acknowledgments<BR>
John Ford Filmography<BR>
Source Notes<BR>
Bibliography<BR>
Index
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<P>
Prologue
<P>
<B>Part One</B> From Maine to Hollywood
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<B>Part Two</B> Learning a Craft
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<B>Part Three</B> Mastering an Art
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<B>Part Four</B> At War
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<B>Part Five</B> The Perils of Independence
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<B>Part Six</B> A Lion in Winter
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Epilogue<BR>
Acknowledgments<BR>
John Ford Filmography<BR>
Source Notes<BR>
Bibliography<BR>
Index
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