Scott Eyman

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Scott Eyman (* 1951 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American author and film historian .

Life

Scott Eyman first wrote for the Cleveland daily The Plain Dealer . Early in his career he interviewed Bette Davis , Alfred Hitchcock , John Wayne , Billy Wilder and Mae West, among others .

In 1983 he settled in Florida and wrote there first for the Sun-Sentinel , and then until they were hired in 1988 for The Miami News . He then moved to the Palm Beach Post , for which he worked as a book critic until 2013. His book reviews and texts have also appeared in the New York Times , the Washington Post , the Chicago Tribune , the Wall Street Journal and numerous film magazines. Since 1986 Eyman has published various non-fiction books on film history , mainly on topics related to classic Hollywood cinema.

Eyman has been teaching film history at the University of Miami School of Communication since 2013 . In 2014, he was awarded the William K. Everson Film History Prize at the National Board of Review Awards .

He lives in West Palm Beach with his wife, journalist Lynn Kalber .

Fonts

  • with Louis D. Giannetti: Flashback: A Brief History of Film. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1986, ISBN 9780133222234 .
  • Five American cinematographers: Interviews with Karl Struss, Joseph Ruttenberg, James Wong Howe, Linwood Dunn, and William H. Clothier. Metuchen NJ, London, The Scarecrow Press, 1987, ISBN 9780810819740 .
  • Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart. New York, DI Fine, 1990, ISBN 9781556111471 .
  • Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1993, ISBN 9780671749361 .
  • The Speed ​​of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926–1930. New York, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1997, ISBN 9780684811628 .
  • Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1999, ISBN 9780684811611 .
  • Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood. London, Robson, 2005, ISBN 9781861058928 .
  • with Robert Wagner : Pieces of My Heart: A Life. New York, HarperCollins, 2008, ISBN 9780061373312 .
  • Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2010, ISBN 9780743289559 .
  • with Robert Wagner: You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, 2014, ISBN 9781410467300 .
  • John Wayne: The Life and Legend. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2014, ISBN 9781439199589 .
  • with Robert Wagner: I Loved Her In The Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses. Waterville, Maine, Thorndike Press, 2016, ISBN 9781410494948 .
  • Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2017, ISBN 9781501102172 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ron Hayes: The Movie Master . In: palmbeach.floridaweekly.com of December 29, 2017.
  2. ^ William K. Everson Award for Film History Archive . In: nationalboardofreview.org, accessed June 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Eyman, Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and film historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio , United States