James Curtis

Last Man Standing

Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of the comic who took the stage with nothing but a newspaper and gave America an entirely new way to laugh

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9781496809285
• ISBN-10: 1496809289
• Artikelnr.: 47082995

Autorenporträt

James Curtis was a senior executive in the health care and computer industries before turning full-time to writing. He is author of William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come; Spencer Tracy: A Biography; W. C. Fields: A Biography (winner of the 2004 Theatre Library Association Award, Special Jury Prize); James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters; and Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges.