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Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay
Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay
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Author: John Wranovics Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Format: Softcover # of Pages: 256 Pub. Date: 2006 ISBN-10: 1403973032 ISBN-13: 9781403973030
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About
the Book:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still
available.
The first book about the unusual friendship between
Pulitzer-winning author James Agee and the legendary Charlie
Chaplin, which resulted in Agee's first screenplay: The
Tramp's New World, written for Chaplin's tramp character and set
in post-apocalyptic New York.
Chaplin and Agee charts the friendship between James
Agee, author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Pulitzer
Prize-winning A Death in the Family and screenwriter for
American classics including The African Queen, and Charlie
Chaplin, who starred in a staggering number of films from 1914 to
1967. This friendship emerged in the midst of the tumult of the 1940s
and 1950s, with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
McCarthyism and blacklisting. In print here for the first time is
James Agee's first screenplay, The Tramp's New World,
lost until recently. The striking screenplay – a comedy "so
dark it was without precedent" – was written for Charlie
Chaplin's Little Tramp, the apparent sole survivor of a nuclear
attack on New York City. Chaplin and Agee also features many
previously unpublished letters and photographs. As the story moves
from Hollywood to Greenwich Village, these two figures come to life,
revealing the untold story of the great bond between two influential
twentieth-century artists.
What people say:
"The
spirit of James Agee
comes through these pages beautifully...." — New
York Times
"Here
is high art and high drama given the flesh of knowing, skillful
story-telling: two wonderfully talented individuals come together for
today's readers as they once did in life-and the result is a
brilliantly telling account of an era's breakthrough achievements of
mind and heart." — Robert
Coles,
Pulitzer prize-winning author
"John
Wranovics
has written an amazing book! It is certainly by far the best
biographical work about James
Agee
that has yet been done. It is highly readable and full of
fascinating, little-known detail ... dug deeply and synthesized
beautifully. Most importantly, Chaplin
and Agee
not only brings to light a deeply significant episode in our nation's
literary, cinematic and political history, it gives us a brand-new,
rough-hewn, dazzling masterpiece by James
Agee
to contemplate and enjoy."
— Ross
Spears,
acclaimed
documentary filmmaker
"Wranovics
weaves personal, historical, and cultural threads into a true
page-turner as he outlines Agee's efforts to become Chaplin's close
friend and overcome his own psychological demons enough to craft what
may be his most ambitious and deeply felt project. The screenplay
itself is a riveting document of progressive 20th century thought."
— The Christian Science Monitor
"Much more than a footnote,
Chaplin and Agee is a real addition to film
culture (and the culture of the Cold War), complete with the
treatment for an unmade movie so vivid that it practically sears the
mind's eye." — Village Voice
About the Author:
John Wranovics is a Director
of Marketing for a leading electronics and computing manufacturer and
an independent scholar who has written for The Boston Book Review.
He is the author of Chaplin and Agee.
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