Matthau

Matthau
Author :
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages : 369
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780878332748
ISBN-13 : 087833274X
Rating : 4/5 (74X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Matthau by : Rob Edelman

Download or read book Matthau written by Rob Edelman and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great comic talents of his generation. Born Walter Matuschanskayasky into Jewish tenements on New York's Lower East Side, he was a child actor in New York Yiddish theater, and later a World War II Air Force radioman-gunner. He paid dues for ten years on Broadway, in summer stock, and on television before landing his film debut The Kentuckian in 1955. By the time of his 1968 casting as cantankerous but lovable slob Oscar Madison in the film version of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, Matthau had won major Hollywood stardom. Based on dozens of interviews and extensive research, this book covers the breadth of his often-complicated personal life and multi-faceted career, including his unforgettable performances in such films as The Fortune Cookie, A Guide for the Married Man, Plaza Suite, Charley Varrick, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Sunshine Boys, The Bad News Bears, California Suite, and Grumpy Old Men.


Matthau Related Books

Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide
Language: en
Pages: 1643
Authors: Leonard Maltin
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-28 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Previously published as Leonard Maltin’s 2015 Movie Guide, this capstone edition includes a new Introduction by the author. (Note: No new reviews have been ad
Matthau
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Rob Edelman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-04 - Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Funny yet down-to-earth, honest yet full of exaggeration, actor Walter Matthau (1920-2000) will always occupy a place in America's heart as one of the great com
The A to Z of African American Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: S. Torriano Berry
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-02 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champi
Van Gogh's Ear Volume 9
Language: en
Pages: 596
Authors: Tina Hall
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-17 - Publisher: Crossroad Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Founded by Ian Ayres, Van Gogh’s Ear: Best World Poetry, Prose & Art is an annual anthology series devoted to publishing powerful works by major voices and in
Inside the Music of Brian Wilson
Language: en
Pages: 417
Authors: Philip Lambert
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is, as author Phillip Lambert writes in the prologue "completely, and intensely, focused on the music of Brian Wilson, on the m