Gregory Peck: A Charmed LifeHachette Books, 27 kwi 2009 - 480 His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies—among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner—would not disagree. Irreverent, candid, refreshingly honest, Lynn Haney's carefully researched biography not only charts the remarkable career of the Oscar-winning star but also plumbs Peck's frequently troubling complexity in his off-screen roles as husband, father, lover, and son. About the tough times, Haney minces no words; but the misfortunes by no means eclipse the energy, intensity, and excitement that characterized Peck's five decades of moviemaking. This is a book filled with telling photographs, and a story cast with movie moguls from Louis B. Mayer to Darryl Zanuck, with directors from Hitchcock and Walsh to Huston and Wyler, with nearly every major luminary in Hollywood, and, starring for the first time in toto, Gregory Peck. |
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CHAPTER TWO Early Days | 31 |
CHAPTER THREE Growing Up | 49 |
CHAPTER FOUR Call of the Stage | 71 |
CHAPTER FIVE Tinseltown | 97 |
CHAPTER SIX Leading Ladies | 111 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Animal Magnetism | 124 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Ungentlemanly Behavior | 142 |
CHAPTER TWELVE Gentleman Hero | 205 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Wrestling with Demons | 232 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Perils of Producing | 255 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Role of a Lifetime | 280 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Antiheroes | 313 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Power Players | 338 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN Picking up the Pieces | 361 |
CHAPTER TWENTY Magnificent Survivor | 390 |
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