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Kearns, Burt, author.
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Tierney, Lawrence, 1919-2002.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century.
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Lawrence Tierney : Hollywood's real-life tough guy / Burt Kearns.
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Kearns, Burt, author.
Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2022]
Subjects
Tierney, Lawrence, 1919-2002.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780813196503 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
0813196507 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
Description:
416 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Violence, chaos, and drunkenness -- Poverty row -- Public enemy no. 1 -- The battle of decker's lawn -- Falling off the table -- Not so tough-and not Gene Tierney -- The drunk farm -- The milk wagon -- "Hello, sucker" -- The anti-Tierney -- In like Dillinger -- Taxicab confessions -- Again -- The payoff -- The respectful prostitute -- 5:30 A.M. -- Barefoot -- Socialite socked -- Making faces -- Year of the wag -- Pink elephants -- Banished -- Diminishing returns -- The burglar -- Get your kicks -- Skidville Avenue -- In like Flynn -- Chinatown -- Incident at P.J.'s -- Fights -- "Highly confused and largely incoherent" -- World's fair -- Exile -- Fatso -- Stabbed -- "From stardom to hansom" -- "I think I'm going to jump" -- Bad -- All in the family -- Renaissance man -- Reservoir dog -- Natural born killer -- Armageddon -- Dead as Dillinger.
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"Lawrence Tierney (1919-2002) was the kind of actor whose natural swagger and gruff disposition made him the perfect fit for the Hollywood "tough guy" archetype. Known for his erratic and oftentimes violent nature, Tierney drew upon his bellicose reputation throughout his career-a reputation that made him one of the most feared and mythologized characters in the industry. Born in Brooklyn to Irish American parents, Tierney worked in theater productions in New York before moving to Hollywood, where he signed with RKO Radio Pictures in 1943. His biggest roles would come in Dillinger (1945), in which he played 1930s gangster and bank robber John Dillinger, and Robert Wise's film noir classic Born to Kill (1947). Despite his natural talents, Tierney was trouble from the start, struggling with alcoholism and mental instability that emboldened him to start fights whenever and wherever he could. The continued bouts of alcohol-fueled rage, his subsequent stints in jail, and his continued attempts at rehabilitation curtailed his acting career. Unable to find work throughout much of the 1960s, he did a stint in Europe before eventually returning to New York, where he took odd jobs as a construction worker, bartender, and hansom cab driver. In the mid-1980s Tierney returned to acting. With a somewhat cooler head, he established himself again with recurring roles in shows such as Seinfeld and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He would take on his final projects as a septuagenarian in Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Armageddon (1998), where his on-set behavior would once again draw the ire of his colleagues and studio representatives. He would go down swinging just shy of his eighty-third birthday, his tough-guy image solidly intact until the end. In Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy, author Burt Kearns traces Tierney's storied life from his days as Dillinger, to his clash with Quentin Tarantino at the end of his film career, to his final public appearances. The first official biography of the late actor, the book draws on the writings of Hollywood reporters and gossip columnists who first reported on Tierney's antics, and exclusive interviews with surviving colleagues, friends, family members-and victims. Through their words and his research, Kearns paints a portrait of Tierney's brutish behavior and the industry's reaction to the pugnacious star, drawing parallels-and the line-between the man and the characters that made him a Hollywood legend"--
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