Burt Lancaster: An American Life - Softcover

Buford, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845133854 ISBN 13: 9781845133856

Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

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Review:

‘Wonderful’

(Susan Sarandon)

‘Lancaster is captured in all his complexity ... perceptive, engrossing and worthy of its subject’

(San Francisco Chronicle)

‘Kate Buford has written as fine a showbiz biography as one could possibly expect ... a model of its kind’

(The Irish Times)

‘Remarkable’

(David Thomson)

Synopsis:

Burt Lancaster is perhaps most widely remembered as the tough, iron-jawed star of films such as "Gunfight at the OK Corral" and "Airport". But as this superbly readable and insightful biography demonstrates, he was an actor with much broader ambitions - brilliantly realised in Visconti's "The Leopard" - as well as the founder of the first actor-led production company in Hollywood.Lancaster's liberal political views led not only to frequent clashes with the House Un-American Activities Committee and a voluminous FBI file, but also a private life that was colourful even by Hollywood standards. Although a devoted father and husband (to three wives), the actor took numerous lovers - of both sexes. In his sexual tastes as in his choice of roles, he defied classification.Kate Buford's definitive biography offers a full, frank, sensitive and compelling portrait of the star of "Atlantic City", "From Here to Eternity" and "Elmer Gantry" (for which he won a Best Actor Oscar). Lancaster emerges as a man of restless energy, relentless curiosity and continual development as an actor: a star every bit as interesting offscreen as on.

As one American reviewer put it: 'Not many film stars receive first-class biographies; Burt Lancaster not only deserved one, he got one.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1845133854
• ISBN 13: 9781845133856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464