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...California. After establishing himself as a suave, romantic leading man during the 1930s and 1940s by playing opposite such stars as Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face), Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just completed his 77th film, Ghost Story, which is scheduled for release in December, recently declared: "Much of what we did in the old days was junk. I don't share...
...Budd Schulberg ∙ Prisoner Without...
MOVING PICTURES: MEMORIES OF A HOLLYWOOD PRINCE by Budd Schulberg; Stein & Day; 501 pages...
...began in movies by collaborating with an alcoholic writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald (whom he later commemorated in the novel The Disenchanted) and wrote several film classics, including On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Today neither Benjamin Percival ("B.P.") Schulberg nor his son Budd is precisely a household-or Hollywood-name. But that odd obscurity is what lends Budd's memoir Moving Pictures its poignance and fascination...
...wife, founder of the Malibu colony, half-baked advocate of Freud, Dewey and Marx, full-time heckler of B.P. as too trusting, too irresponsible, likely to come to a bad end. "I've decided not to depend on Father-for anything," she told Budd as her marriage wound down. "In all these years he has practically nothing to show for the millions he's earned . . . he lives in that dream world of his, with people like . . . the Sidney woman telling him how great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status...