02751cam a2200301 i 4500 412657533 TxAuBib 20200219120000.0 190801s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019031704 9781250030153 HRD 29.99 1250030153 HRD 29.99 TxAuBib rda Spiegel, Maura. Sidney Lumet [BOOK] : a life / Maura Spiegel. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019. x, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index. Yiddish roots -- Family stories -- Mother and son -- A Broadway education -- Brother and sister -- A second home: the group theatre -- What the camera sees -- GI Jew: eating ham for Uncle Sam -- Coming home -- Marriage take one: a season in Bohemia -- Television: worlds within worlds -- Marriage take two: Mr. And Mrs. Mouse -- The making of 12 angry men -- Career moves -- Marriage take three: maybe this time -- Men at work -- Marriage take four: print it -- Acquainted with the night -- Parents and children -- Make it personal -- Life all around -- All in all. Acclaimed as the ultimate New York movie director, Sidney Lumet began his astonishing five-decades-long directing career with the now classic 12 Angry Men, followed by such landmark films as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. His remarkably varied output included award-winning adaptations of plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O’Neill, whose Long Day’s Journey into Night featured Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in their most devastating performances. Renowned as an “actor’s director,” Lumet attracted an unmatched roster of stars, among them: Henry Fonda, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Ethan Hawke, and Philip-Seymour Hoffman, accruing eighteen Oscar nods for his actors along the way. With the help of exclusive interviews with family, colleagues, and friends, author Maura Spiegel provides a vibrant portrait of the life and work of this extraordinary director whose influence is felt through generations, and takes us inside the Federal Theater, the Group Theatre, the Actors Studio, and the early “golden age” of television. Provided by publisher. 20200219. Lumet, Sidney 1924-2011. Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography.