Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Synopsis
About the Author
Acknowledgments
The Psychology of Stage and Screen
Creativity and Actors
Identity Diffusion, Postmodernism, and Creativity
PART I: ACTORS
Chapter 1 – Henry Irving (pp. 3-8)
Chapter 2 – David Garrick (pp. 9-12)
Chapter 3 – Orson Welles (pp. 13-28)
Chapter 4 – John Gielgud (pp. 29-32)
Chapter 5 – Rudolph Valentino (pp. 33-36)
Chapter 6 – Michael Redgrave (pp. 37-40)
Chapter 7 – Charles Laughton (pp. 41-44)
Chapter 8 – Frank Sinatra (pp. 45-48)
Chapter 9 – Richard Burton (pp. 49-52)
Chapter 10 – James Stewart (pp. 53-56)
Chapter 11 – Alec Guinness (pp. 57-60)
Chapter 12 – James Mason (pp. 61-64)
Chapter 13 – Micheál Mac Liammóir (pp. 65-68)
Chapter 14 – Harry Houdini (pp. 69-72)
Chapter 15 – Richard Harris (pp. 73-74)
Chapter 16 – David Niven (pp. 75-78)
Chapter 17 – Ellen Terry (pp. 79-82)
Chapter 18 – Greta Garbo (pp. 83-86)
Chapter 19 – Leni Riefenstahl (pp. 87-90)
Chapter 20 – Judy Garland (pp. 91-94)
Chapter 21 – Mata Hari (pp. 95-98)
Chapter 22 – Groucho Marx (pp. 99-102)
Chapter 23 – Peter Sellers (pp. 103-106)
Chapter 24 – Tony Hancock (pp. 107-110)
Chapter 25 – Kenneth Williams (pp. 111-114)
Chapter 26 – W. C. Fields (pp. 115-118)
Chapter 27 – Spike Milligan (pp. 119-122)
Chapter 28 – Jimmy O‟Dea (pp. 123-124)
PART II: DIRECTORS
Chapter 29 – Cecil B. DeMille (pp. 127-132)
Chapter 30 – Constantin Stanislavski (pp. 133-138)
Chapter 31 – Federico Fellini (pp. 139-142)
Chapter 32 – Tyrone Guthrie (pp. 134-146)
Chapter 33 – Alfred Hitchcock (pp. 147-150)
Chapter 34 – Luis Buñuel (pp. 151-156)
Chapter 35 – Walt Disney (pp. 157-162)
Chapter 36 – Otto Preminger (pp. 163-166)
Chapter 37 – Sergei Eisenstein (pp. 167-170)
Chapter 38 – John Schlesinger (pp. 171-174)
Chapter 39 – Sam Peckinpah (pp. 175-178)
Chapter 40 – Frank Capra (pp. 179-182)
Chapter 41 – George Cukor (pp. 183-186)
PART III: COMPOSERS AND CONDUCTORS
Chapter 42 – Leonard Bernstein (pp. 189-194)
Chapter 43 – Leopold Stokowski (pp. 195-198)
PART IV: WRITERS
Chapter 44 – Anton Chekhov (pp. 201-206)
Chapter 45 – Henrik Ibsen (pp. 207-214)
Chapter 46 – Luigi Pirandello (pp. 215-218)
Chapter 47 – John Osborne (pp. 219-222)
Chapter 48 – T. S. Eliot (pp. 223-226)
Chapter 49 – F. Scott Fitzgerald (pp. 227-230)
Chapter 50 – Friedrich Schiller (pp. 231-234)
Chapter 51 – Voltaire (pp. 235-238)
Chapter 52 – Truman Capote (pp. 239-242)
Chapter 53 – Oliver St John Gogarty (pp. 243-244)
Chapter 54 – Ian Fleming (pp. 245-248)
Chapter 55 – Philip K. Dick (pp. 249-254)
Chapter 56 – William Shakespeare (pp. 255-258)
PART V: PRODUCERS/FINANCIERS
Chapter 57 – Sam Spiegel (pp. 261-264)
Chapter 58 – William Randolph Hearst (pp. 265-270)
Chapter 59 – Samuel Goldwyn (pp. 271-276)
Chapter 60 – Howard Hughes (pp. 277-282)
References
Index
