Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu The first biography of this pioneering Hollywood maverick and bon vivant. DUDLEY MURPHY, HOLLYWOOD WILD CARD Susan Delson University of Minnesota Press | 272 pages | 2006 ISBN 0-8166-4654-6 | hardcover | $27.95 Dudley Murphy (1897-1968) was one of early Hollywood's most intriguing figures. Active from the 1920s through the 1940s, Murphy was one of the industry's first independents and a guiding intelligence behind some of the key films in early twentieth-century cinema. In the first full-length biography of Murphy, Susan Delson gives full rein to an American original whose life was as audacious as his films. ³Dudley Murphy doesn't bear a household name like John Ford or King Vidor, but, as chronicled by Delson, his ambitious career out-barnstormed them all‹even if it often only sputtered in the public eye. The author displays a scholarly grasp of the facts, but also the fluid, resonant prose to animate them. A balanced portrait of a man and a panorama of his times, told with exceptional grace.² ‹Kirkus Reviews For more information, including the table of contents, an author q & a, and a Dudley Murphy quiz, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/delson_dudley.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html