{"product_id":"nicholas-ray-the-glorious-failure-of-an-american-director-9780060731380","title":"Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director","description":"Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of Nicholas Ray, the troubled director of \u003cem\u003eIna Lonely Place\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWe Can't GoHome Again\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/em\u003e. McGilligancharts the cerebral struggles, astonishing adventures, and artistic triumphsthat defined Ray's life, including his Hollywood collaborations with HumphreyBogart, Robert Mitchum, James Cagney, and James Dean;his love affairs with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, ZsaZsa Gabor, and Gloria Grahame; his partnerships withactivist Abbie Hoffman, pornography starlet MarilynChambers, photographer Wim Wenders;and more. Celebrating, contextualizing, and examining Ray's life and work, McGilligandelivers a milestone of film history and offers a captivating look at one ofclassic cinema's most colorful figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcGilligan, Patrick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003ePatrick McGilligan is the author of \u003cem\u003eAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand Light\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eGeorge Cukor: A Double Life\u003c\/em\u003e; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume \u003cem\u003eBackstory\u003c\/em\u003e series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive \u003cem\u003eTender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"It Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459887665426,"sku":"9780060731380","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d1d717b7-f474-405d-acb0-9c713d8f5282.jpg?v=1730011840","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nicholas-ray-the-glorious-failure-of-an-american-director-9780060731380","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}