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Paperback Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield Book

ISBN: 1626546150

ISBN13: 9781626546158

Body and Soul: The Story of John Garfield

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Follow the Turbulent Life of a Hollywood Original

"I believe the more successful an actor becomes, the more chances he should take. An actor never stops learning." John Garfield

Before there was Brando and James Dean, there was John Garfield. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, young Jacob Julius Garfinkle's talent and charisma carried him from membership in some of the Bronx's toughest street gangs to the boards of the prestigious American...

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Interesting and engrossing

"Body and Soul" is an interesting and engrossing bio of one of my favorite actors who,sadly, is underrated or even forgotten by most. This is much better than the more recent bio, "He Ran All the Way." Swindle paints a complete portrait of the actor unlike the 2004 book which reduces Garfield to a bit of a cartoon. Swindle provides insightful stories of Garfield's life including his colleagues and family. Especially moving are the last few chapters dealing with HUAC, detailing not only Garfield's struggles but also of his friends including Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets. The book also provides large excerpts from Garfield's HUAC testimony. The book is very fair in assessing Garfield's career and personal life. Seek this bio out rather than Robert Nott's Garfield book. It benefits from having been written in 1975 when many of Garfield's peers were still alive and blacklisting was still painfully fresh in Hollywood's history. Frankly, this is just a better written and more complete biography.
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