Sidney Lumet: His Life and His Films By : Maura Spiegel
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Sidney Lumet: His Life and Films is the first-ever biography of this seminal American director whose remarkable life traces a line through American entertainment history. His biography takes us from the world of Yiddish theater to Broadway spectacles, then inside the Federal Theater, the Group Theatre, the Actors Studio, and the early ?golden age? of television ?all of which precede Lumet?s astonishing five-decades -long adventure in movie making.Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Lumet began his directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, and there followed such landmark New York films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon and Network. Most noted for contemporary urban dramas, his remarkably varied output included award-winning adaptations of plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O?Neill, whose Long Day?s Journey into Night featured Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in their most devastating performances.His renown as an ?actor?s
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