Burt Lancaster An American Life

by Buford, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780306810190
• ISBN10: 0306810190
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-24
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audiences around the world as the electrifying performer ofGunfight at the O.K. Corral, From Here to Eternity,andBirdman of Alcatraz,among many others. Kate Buford brings to life his vivid, memorable on-screen presence as well as the off-screen life he kept intensely private. The first writer to win cooperation from Lancaster's widow and close friends, Buford has written the intimate story of one of the last great unexamined Hollywood lives, capturing both the golden boy and the husband, philanderer, and sometime bisexual. Buford's portrait is compelling, comprehensive, intelligentand definitive.

Author Biography

Kate Buford is a commentator for Public Radio International's "Marketplace" and has written for publications including the New York Times and Architectural Digest. She lives in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 3
The Set-Up 1913-1945
New York City Boy	p. 11
The Daring Young Man	p. 28
The Play 1945-1960
Discovery	p. 59
Taking Charge of the Asylum	p. 83
The Hero Business	p. 101
Zenith	p. 133
A Cookie Full of Arsenic	p. 169
The Fall	p. 185
The Payoff 1960-1990
Embracing the Zeitgeist	p. 199
Burying the Heroes	p. 262
Comebacks	p. 299
The End 1990-1994
Fade Out	p. 339
Epitaph	p. 345
Filmography	p. 347
Notes	p. 361
Selected Bibliography	p. 421
Acknowledgments	p. 431
Index	p. 433
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