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Burt Lancaster : an American life

Title
Burt Lancaster : an American life / Kate Buford.
Author
Buford, Kate.
Publication
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©2000.
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  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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Description
ix, 447 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The story of Burt Lancaster, the star of such films as Sweet smell of success, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz, The swimmer, Atlantic City, From here to eternity, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Judgment at Nuremberg, The leopard, 1900, and Field of Dreams, from his teenage years to the "anti-Communist witch-hunts" and on through his final years.
Subject
  • Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994
  • Lancaster, Burt, 1913-1994
  • Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biography.
Bibliography (note)
  • Filmography: pages 347-359.
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-429) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also issued online.
Contents
The Set-Up 1913-1945 -- New York City Boy -- The Daring Young Man -- The Play 1945-1960 -- Discovery -- Taking Charge of the Asylum -- The Hero Business -- Zenith -- A Cookie Full of Arsenic -- The Fall -- The Payoff 1960-1990 -- Embracing the Zeitgeist -- Burying the Heroes -- Comebacks -- The End 1990-1994 -- Fade Out -- Epitaph.
Call Number
MWES (Lancaster, B.) 00-4767
ISBN
  • 0679446036
  • 9780679446033
LCCN
99037351
OCLC
41712166
Author
Buford, Kate.
Title
Burt Lancaster : an American life / Kate Buford.
Imprint
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©2000.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Filmography: pages 347-359.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-429) and index.
Additional Formats
Also issued online.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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Online version: Buford, Kate. Burt Lancaster. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, ©2000 (OCoLC)606265937
Research Call Number
MWES (Lancaster, B.) 00-4767
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