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Simon & Schuster
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
ISBN: 1476797722
EAN: 9781476797724
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Non-Fiction
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This line
from director John Ford’s film The Man Who Shot Liberty
Valance serves as an epigraph for the life of the legendary
filmmaker. Through a career that spanned decades and included dozens of
films—among them such American masterpieces as The
Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach,
and How Green Was My Valley—John Ford managed to leave as
his legacy a body of work that few filmmakers will ever
equal. Yet as bold as the stamp of his personality was on
each film, he was reticent about his personal life.
Basically shy, and intensely private, he was known to enjoy
making up stories about himself, some of them based loosely
on fact but many of them pure fabrications. Ford preferred
instead to let his films speak for him. What mattered to
Ford was always what was up there on the screen. Now, in this definitive look at the life and career of one
of America's true cinematic giants, noted biographer and
critic Scott Eyman, working with the full participation of
the Ford estate, has managed to document and delineate both
aspects of John Ford’s life—the human and the legend.
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