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Francis X. Bushman
Richard J. Maturi
Mary Buckingham Maturi
其他書名
A Biography and Filmography
出版
McFarland
, 1998
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Performing Arts / Film / General
Performing Arts / Reference
ISBN
078640485X
9780786404858
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TKpZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Before Burt Lancaster and Charlton Heston, before Bogart and Gable, even before Rudolph Valentino, there was Francis X. Bushman. Named the King of the Movies at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915, Bushman virtually created the Hollywood model of the male heartthrob that hundreds of others have sought to imitate over the years.
Born in 1883, Bushman had his first acting jobs in stock companies in his hometown of Baltimore. His film career started in 1911 when he starred in a one-reeler entitled His Friend's Wife. Over the next seven years, he became one of the top stars in movies. But his divorce from his wife, Josephine, and subsequent remarriage to leading lady, Beverly Bayne, effectively ended his career. He did manage a triumphant return to the big screen as Messala in Ben Hur (1926), but mostly thereafter he had smaller parts or was on stage. From contemporary sources and conversations with many of Bushman's surviving relatives, this is the compelling tale of one of Hollywood's first superstars and how his career laid the foundation for the matinee idols who followed.