Raoul Walsh: The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director

Raoul Walsh (1887-1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors-along with John Ford and Howard Hawks-who worked in the fledgling film industry of the early twentieth century, learning to make movies with shoestring budgets. Walsh's generation invented a Hollywood that made mov

Author: Marilyn Ann Moss
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 09/24/2013
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.66lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.18w x 1.24d
ISBN13: 9780813144443
ISBN10: 0813144442
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Performing Arts | Individual Director
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism

About the Author

Marilyn Ann Moss is the author of Giant: George Stevens, A Life on Film and has published numerous articles on writers such as Paul Bowles, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris. She was a television critic for The Hollywood Reporter from 1995 to 2009.

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