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Also George Brent was in the IRA!

Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2023 21:56 (eleven months ago) link

Forgot about that. There’s something else about him too, some sort of personal excitement Bette Davis mentions which didn’t really translate to the screen for whatever reason.

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:34 (eleven months ago) link

Great Real Names: Spangler Arlington Brugh

Had missed this. Good catch.

Recently I took out a book from the library about Robert Taylor and the star-making machinery of his time but it turned out to be mostly a boring slightly-expanded PhD thesis I think so I returned it largely unread. Encountered no such book as yet on George Brent.

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:37 (eleven months ago) link

Ha, I just went looking and did find a book on George Brent which has kind of a hilarious (sub)title.

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:42 (eleven months ago) link

Apparently it was one of HuffPo’s Best Film Books of 2013.

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:43 (eleven months ago) link

Maybe the book that was listed was another by the same author, perhaps about one of Brent’s wives, Ruth Chatterton.

The Original Human Beat Surrender (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 June 2023 22:51 (eleven months ago) link


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