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The Ivan Moffat File : Life among the Beautiful and the Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood by Gavin Lambert and Ivan Moffat (2004, Hardcover)

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Here is a fascinating portrait of Hollywood screenwriter Ivan Moffat, whose lonely, aristocratic childhood led to a precociously fashionable and sensual life in London's High Bohemia in the late 1930s, service in director George Stevens's World War II film documentary unit, and membership in Hollywood's dazzling postwar expatriate community. Moffat's grandfather, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, was one of the most celebrated actors of his day, producing and starring in everything from Richard II to Pygmalion on the London stage and founding the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His mother, Iris Tree, was a well-known poet-actress-adventuress whose circle included British bluebloods Nancy Cunard and Diana Cooper, and Bloomsburyites Carrington, Lytton Strachey, and Augustus John. Ivan's photographer father, Curtis Moffat, came from a well-connected New York family, studied with Man Ray, and had an audacious showroom that focused on Moderne furniture and lighting, some of which he designed himself. But Ivan Moffat's extraordinary pedigree was only the foundation upon which he built his own equally extraordinary and surprisingly active personal life, populated by the leading artists and personalities of his day-from Aldous Huxley and Dylan Thomas to Preston Sturges, Charlie Chaplin, Billy Wilder, and David Selznick. In 1943 Moffat enlisted in the army and was assigned to Stevens's unit, started by Eisenhower, which covered the last stage of World War II, from D-day to the fall of Berlin and the liberation of the concentration camps. After the war, Stevens invited Moffat to become an associate producer for his new Hollywood company. Moffat's unofficial credits on the screenplays for A Place in the Sun and Shane and his co-writing credit on Giant led to a successful screenwriting career, and at the same time he became a leading social figure in Hollywood. Moffat had affairs with many women-from a waitress to a duchess, from a stripper to a movie star. The most serious affair of his life was probably with the novelist Caroline Blackwood. At the center of The Ivan Moffat File is the elegantly written autobiography that Moffat was working on at the time of his death in 2002, to which Gavin Lambert adds never-before-seen letters, interviews, and screenplays, as well as many anecdotes and his own memories of Moffat. The result is a re-creation of the life of this unique figure, flamboyant and mysterious.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375422471
ISBN-13
9780375422478
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30862332

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Book Title
Ivan Moffat File : Life Among the Beautiful and the Damned in London, Paris, New York, and Hollywood
Author
Ivan Moffat, Gavin Lambert
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Social Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.2in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.O276z75 2004
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-043431
Dewey Decimal
812/.54 B
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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