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American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964 is a 1978 biography of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur by American historian William Manchester. [1]Manchester paints a sympathetic but balanced portrait of MacArthur, praising the general for what he calls his military genius, administrative skill, and personal bravery, while criticizing his vanity, paranoia, and tendency toward ...
The biography, published in 1951, profiles Mencken, the self-described "conservative anarchist" who made his mark as a writer, editor, and political pundit in the 1920s. In 1953, Manchester published his novel The City of Anger , set in Baltimore and dealing with inner city life and the numbers racket , subjects Manchester had learned about as ...
I Was an American Spy: Claire Phillips: Ann Dvorak: I'll See You in My Dreams: Gus Kahn: Danny Thomas: Jim Thorpe – All-American: Jim Thorpe: Burt Lancaster: The Lady and the Bandit: Dick Turpin: Louis Hayward: The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale: Anna Neagle: The Magic Box: William Friese-Greene: Robert Donat: The Man with a Cloak ...
Robinson signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., casting him in another gangster film, Smart Money (1931), his only movie with James Cagney. He was reunited with Mervyn LeRoy, director of Little Caesar, in Five Star Final (1931), playing a journalist, and played a Tong gangster in The Hatchet Man (1932).
On September 21, 2000, Stone was in negotiations to develop and direct Universal Pictures' thriller American Caesar, about a former war hero. Douglas Wick and William Nicholson were reportedly set to re-team on the project as producer and screenwriter, respectively, just as they had done with Gladiator. [80]
[146]: 175–176 Welles wrote a 58-page memo outlining suggestions and objections, stating that the film was no longer his version—it was the studio's, but as such, he was still prepared to help with it. [146]: 175–176 [147] The movie was shown at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, where it won the grand prize. [148]
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Nigel Hamilton (born 16 February 1944) is a British-born biographer, academic, and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages.In the United States, he is known primarily for his best-selling [1] work on the young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, which was made into an ABC miniseries.