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...Front; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Milestone won his first Oscar for a 1927 war comedy called Two Arabian Knights. He also directed the 1931 version of The Front Page, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, the 1940 Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, and the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando...
INGRID BERGMAN: MY STORY by Ingrid Bergman and Alan Burgess Delacorte; 504 pages...
Bergman and a capable writer, Alan Burgess, take turns telling her story. She is perfectly straightforward and writes about her ordeals-the latest a second mastectomy-without drama, self-pity or blame...
...telling that Kim Philby's fellow spy, Guy Burgess, was fond of quoting Forster's doctrine, since, thanks to a tip-off from Philby, Burgess was able to flee England for the Soviet Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes...
Twisting through its labyrinthine course, Stranger provides vivid profiles of Burgess, Maclean and Philby, who appear as themselves, but the many-tiered novel is most affecting in its depictions of love true and false, at home, abroad and long gone. It is in these passages that the novel persuasively insinuates a chill, echoing question: The fourth man has been identified, but is there a fifth, sixth - even an nth man out there...