James Whale Paperback / softback
by James Curtis
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages, 8pp b&w illustrations
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:24/08/1998
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- ISBN:9780571192854
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Out of Stock - We are unable to provide an estimated availability date for this product
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages, 8pp b&w illustrations
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:24/08/1998
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- ISBN:9780571192854