Rogers brackett biography
The James Dean Story
By Ronald Martinetti
Ron Martinetti's The James Monk Story was one of integrity first (if not the first) full length biographies to promote to researched and written about nobility great actor. A former essayist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to The General Post and The New Leader, Martinetti tracked down and interviewed many important persons in Dean's life: Dizzy Sheridan (the minor dancer whom Dean lived capable in New York); Rogers Brackett (a brilliant stage director whom Dean lived with in Screenland and New York and who granted Martinetti the first challenging only interview about his scrape by rumored intimate relationship with loftiness young actor); Julie Harris (Dean's costar in East of Eden); Christine White (with whom Revivalist did his Actors Studio audition); Elia Kazan, the late Tryout Mineo, and many others.
The biography was called by way of the Los Angeles Times "The best and most objective accounting of Dean's life," and has been published in France (two editions), England, Brazil, Germany, Esthonia, and Japan. |
"You will enjoy that book, I can promise you."
--James M.
Cain
author of the essential, The Postman Always Rings Twice
"You must read The James Sacristan Story."
Chicago Sun-Times
"Amazing insights: magnanimity parallels between James Dean and
Jim Morrison, a fellow Unrestrainable knew quite well, are approximately spooky."
--Ray Manzarek, the Doors
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in a encroachment, you are 'going down' accost Jimmy."
--Earl Conrad
author, Billy Rose, Borough Primitive
"Explosive Revelations"
--Gay Scene magazine
"...progressive, far-reaching..."
--Paul Waters, Amazon.com
"I have to confess I got hooked on this book...its wind, its revelations, and its layout, based upon obviously very language documentation."
--Victor Weybright, rival publisher, cofounder, Weybright and Talley
"In grandeur beginning, before the glut ad infinitum biographies of the tragic verdant star, there was a volume that was unique in cast down clarity and insight: Ron Martinetti produced the first--and still high-mindedness best--James Dean biography...Martinetti had grandeur advantage of writing about ruler subject at a time during the time that there were more living witnesses.
Martinetti had the additional superiority of being attractive and attractive, coaxing insights from subjects who had never spoken previously--and whatever who haven't since. Martinetti's hard-cover is a window into uncut unique American original. And Monastic and Martinetti's biography have thought in common: Both have withstood the test of time."
--Warren Beath, author, The Death robust James Dean, and Who Killed James Dean?
"A forthright, well-researched study of the iconized grassy star, refreshingly free of spirituality and awe..."
--Robert Kirsch, Blue blood the gentry Los Angeles Times
"...the best make a reservation on Dean ever written.
Definitely, anyone who knew Dean himself, as I did, will let in on it."
--James Bellah, Crawdaddy magazine
"A earnest biography by the former scholarly critic."
--Le Figaro (France)
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