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Giant
George Stevens, a Life
on Film
Marilyn Ann Moss
Terrace Books
A Place in the Sun for a director
in the Hollywood studio heyday
Marilyn Ann Moss's Giant
examines the life of one of the most influential directors to
work in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. George Stevens
directed such popular and significant films as Shane, Giant,
A Place in the Sun, and The Diary of Anne Frank. He
was the first to pair Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy on
film in Woman of the Year. Through the study of Stevens's
life and his production history, Moss also presents a glimpse
of the workings of the classic Hollywood studio system in its
glory days.
Moss documents Stevens's role as a powerful director who often
had to battle the heads of major studios to get his films made
his way. She traces the four decades Stevens was a major Hollywood
player and icon, from his earliest days at the Hal Roach Studios—where
he learned to be a cameraman, writer, and director for Laurel
and Hardy features-up to when his films made millions at the
box office and were graced by actors such as Elizabeth Taylor,
James Dean, Alan Ladd, and Montgomery Clift.
Marilyn Ann Moss
is a film historian and a scholar of literature. A television
critic for The Hollywood Reporter, she lives in Los Angeles.
This is her first book.
For publicity information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email:
publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
Other related books from the Fall 2004
season are:
Murder
in Hollywood: Solving a
Silent Screen Mystery by
Charles Higham
Walking
Shadows:
Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst,
and Citizen Kane by John Evangelist
Walsh
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November 2004
320 pp. 6 x 9
20 b/w photos
ISBN 0-299-20430-8 Cloth $35.00 t
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