Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9781476678993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 329 str.

Gregory William Mank

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Author’s Note
• Introduction: The Ripper Incarnate
• Part I: If You Try to Find Me, I Will Kill Myself
• 1 Philadelphia
• 2 The “Secret Heart” Thing
• 3 A Grotesque
• 4 Life in a Sedan
• 5 Oscar Wilde
• Part II: The Lion of the Hour
• 6 Success
• 7 The Rabbit with the Glass Teeth
• 8 Gooseberry the Great
• 9 He-Goat Lucifer
• 10The Saint Bernard
• 11 I Wake Up Screaming with Laird Cregar
• Part III: Betsey
• 12 Seven Years Old in Hollywood
• 13 The Man Who Shouldn’t Have Come to Dinner
• 14 Quaking Like Jelly
• 15 Riding the Cannon
• 16 Swashbuckler
• 17 The Hideaway and a Sad Farewell
• Part IV: “We Want You Just As You Are, Mr. Cregar.”
• 18 Who Was Who in the Zoo
• 19 Three in 1943
• 20 Horror
• 21 “Don’t Let Him Catch Ya, Dearie!”
• 22 “Gloomy Sunday”
• 23 The Ripper in Person
• Part V: “A Beautiful Man”
• 24 Hangover Square’s First Draft, and the Debacle of Laura
• 25 A Failed Romance, a Revised Script, Abbott and Costello Meet Laird Cregar, a Female Stalker, and the Tragedy of Henry VIII
• 26 “The Bette Davis of the 20th Century–Fox Lot”
• 27 Blowing Up
• 28 Fox Infernos
• 29 The Last Act
• Part VI: Denouement
• 30 What I Wanted for Christmas
• 31 Legacy
• 32 A Final Tribute
• Filmography
• Theater Credits
• Radio Credits
• Unrealized Film Projects
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index