A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan: Hollywood Legends Series (Unabridged) A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan: Hollywood Legends Series (Unabridged)

A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan: Hollywood Legends Series (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in over 200 motion pictures and became the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting, which celebrated the actor's unique role as the voice of the American Western. His life journey from Swampscott, Massachusetts, to Hollywood, to a 12,000-acre cattle ranch in Joseph, Oregon, is one of the great American stories.

In the first biography of this epic figure, Carl Rollyson reveals Brennan's consummate mastery of virtually every kind of role while playing against and often stealing scenes from such stars as Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, and John Wayne. Rollyson fully explores Brennan's work with Hollywood's greatest directors, such as Howard Hawks, John Ford, and Fritz Lang. As a father and grandfather, Brennan instilled generations of his family with an outlook on the American Dream that remains a sustaining feature of their lives today. His conservative politics, which grew out of his New England upbringing and his devout Catholicism, receive meticulous attention and a balanced assessment in A Real American Character.

Written with the full cooperation of the Brennan family and drawing on material in archives from every region of the United States, this new biography presents an artist and family man who lived and breathed an American idealism that made him the real McCoy.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
NR
Neil Reeves
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:55
hr min
RELEASED
2015
November 23
PUBLISHER
Carl Rollyson
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
434.3
MB