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Fred MacMurray de Charles Tranberg

Fred MacMurray

Autor Charles Tranberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2007

În 1960, Fred MacMurray se afla în fața unei răscruci care ar fi putut încheia cariera multor actori de calibrul său. Într-o epocă în care vedetele de cinema priveau televiziunea cu scepticism, el a ales să devină Steve Douglas în My Three Sons. Această decizie nu a fost doar o schimbare de format, ci o reinventare totală care l-a transformat în figura paternă chintesențială pentru o întreagă generație. Remarcăm în paginile volumului Fred MacMurray cum această durabilitate neobișnuită — o prezență constantă în roluri principale timp de aproape patru decenii — l-a plasat într-o ligă proprie.

Descoperim o analiză metodică a tranzițiilor sale, de la junele prim al anilor '30 de la Paramount, la perioada incertă de după război când gusturile publicului se îndreptau spre realism. Considerăm că forța acestei biografii rezidă în documentarea modului în care Walt Disney i-a oferit a doua vârstă de aur, începând cu The Shaggy Dog. În aceeași familie cu Journeyman Actor de William Windom, volumul adaugă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care un actor își poate gestiona imaginea publică pentru a rămâne relevant în ciuda schimbărilor de paradigmă industrială. Dacă Windom explorează viața unui actor de caracter, Charles Tranberg se concentrează pe mecanismul prin care un „leading man” devine o instituție culturală.

Autorul continuă aici tradiția portretelor minuțioase începută în Fredric March - A Consummate Actor sau I Love the Illusion. La fel ca în lucrările sale anterioare despre Agnes Moorehead sau William Conrad, Tranberg nu se limitează la cronologia evenimentelor, ci analizează chimia actorului cu industria. Stilul este informativ, cu un ritm narativ care reflectă eficiența profesională a lui MacMurray, oferindu-ne un tablou complet al unui artist care a reușit acolo unde giganți precum Henry Fonda au eșuat: cucerirea simultană a marelui și micului ecran.

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ISBN-13: 9781593930998
ISBN-10: 1593930992
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: BEARMANOR MEDIA

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Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istoria Hollywood-ului clasic și de mecanismele celebrității. Veți descoperi cum Fred MacMurray a navigat cinci decenii de schimbări culturale, transformându-se dintr-un actor de comedii romantice într-un simbol al valorilor familiale. Este o lecție despre adaptabilitate profesională și despre epoca în care studiourile Disney și televiziunea au redefinit succesul american.

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Fred MacMurray was one of the most durable stars in motion picture history. Fred arrived in Hollywood in 1934 and within a year he was one of the top leading men in the movie industry. He was the leading actor or one of the leads in films through 1973 when Walt Disney Studios released his final starring role in a motion picture, Charley and the Angel. Thirty-nine years - five separate decades. Few stars have equaled that distinction.Of course every star career has its peaks and valleys. The initial peak of Fred';s stardom was from his days as a Paramount leading man, beginning in 1935 and running roughly until the end of the Second World War. Like many aging stars, the post-war years were a mixed bag for Fred. Public tastes were changing and the kind of frothy, romantic comedies which had been his forte were going out of fashion. But he persevered and continued to do leading roles in a variety of pictures and from time to time found a film which registered strongly with film audiences and critics alike, such as The Egg and I (1947), and especially The Caine Mutiny (1954).By the mid 1950s Fred was appearing, increasingly, in that favorite genre of the aging leading man - the western film. Eight of ten films he made between 1955 and 1960 were westerns, not Fred's favorite genre. But they did keep his name before the public.Then in 1959, Fred began the second peak of his career thanks to Walt Disney, who cast Fred in his studios first live action comedy film, The Shaggy Dog. Incredibly this film which was made for under $1 million became the third biggest box office hit of that year, and Fred found a new audience. Over the next several years, Fred starred in a series of hugely popular family films for the Walt Disney Studios.Then in 1960, Fred did something that solidified his new family friendly image. He accepted the lead in a new television series called My Three Sons. For the next twelve years he played Steve Douglas, a widower with three rambunctious sons. Fred became THE quintessential father figure for a new generation of kids.In accepting My Three Sons Fred succeeded at something that few film actors had achieved up to that time. He became a star in both television and motion pictures. Look at it this way. In 1951 when Lucille Ball began I Love Lucy she had already spent nearly two decades as a motion picture actress, but she never had the kind of movie fame that Fred MacMurray had achieved when he became a television star. Loretta Young began a long running anthology series in 1953, and had been a popular, and Academy Award winning, movie actress prior to that, but when she began on television her days as a film actress were over. When Fred began doing My Three Sons in 1960, he was enjoying a rejuvenated film career thanks to the Disney films and his superb performance in Billy Wilder's hugely popular and Academy Award winning The Apartment. Fred was simultaneously enjoying popularity on both the big and small screens. Many film actors attempted this after Fred, including his contemporaries Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, but both proved failures in their own series.