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Gunmen and Gangsters: Profiles of Nine Actors Who Portrayed Memorable Screen Tough Guys

Gunmen and Gangsters: Profiles of Nine Actors Who Portrayed Memorable Screen Tough Guys

Schlossheimer, Michael

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0786409894
ISBN13: 9780786409891
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Nov 28 2001
Pages: 359
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Gangsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano were considered by many people to be the most exciting personalities of the 1920s and 1930s. The public was hungry for press coverage about these mysterious and dangerous men. Most reports about them were sketchy, as the reporters did not want to get on the bad side of the racket bosses. Hollywood's response to the public's fascination was to portray the lives of gangsters on the movie screen, using actors such as Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson. Perhaps surprisingly, these men received not-so-favorable reviews from the Academy Award voters, and as their popularity grew with the public, censorship dictated other actors be brought in to play the roles.

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