Marilyn Ann Moss is a film historian and a scholar of literature. A television critic for The Hollywood Reporter, she lives in Los Angeles. This is her first book.
"At a time when Hollywood is so disappointing, it is good to recall
that once there were giants who thought of filmmaking beyond
moneymaking. George Stevens stood tall among them with a
fascinating life and stellar career. Marilyn Moss has written Giant
with a clarity, elegance, and humanity that echoes his great
films."--Patrick McGilligan, Edgar-nominated author, Alfred
Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
"Moss has done a sensational job with Giant. She has accessed the
extensive files in the George Stevens Collection at the Academy
Library, so her primary research is impeccable. She gives us both
production histories and critical analysis of the films, and also
does an estimable job of capturing Stevens' rather cryptic
character. Along with Robert Birchard's volume on Cecil B. DeMille,
this is the best director bio of 2004."--The National Board of
Review
"Moss' work is extensive and draws on the huge George Stevens
Collection at the Academy's Beverly Hills Library. She balances her
findings there with comments from many of the director's friends
and provides penetrating insights of her own. . . . Stevens
constitutes a vast, nearly impossible subject and it's to Moss'
supreme credit that she gets so much of what makes him
unique."--culturevulture.net
"Ms. Moss' Giant is the first biography of Stevens, so it's a very
welcome addition to the bookshelf, even if, by itself, it's
unlikely to reverse decades of critical drift."--Scott Eyman, New
York Observer
"Stevens is not so well remembered today. Perhaps that's because he
didn't work the self-promotion angle as well as his contemporaries.
Or perhaps it's because he broke enough budgets and schedules to
have gotten himself crossed off the canonical list of the greats,
on which only the budget- and schedule-breaking Orson Welles still
has much of a place these days. On that score alone, film
journalist Marilyn Ann Moss does a fine turn for Stevens in Giant:
George Stevens, a Life on Film by calling attention to the
influential work he did throughout five decades in Hollywood. . . .
Moss honors the innovative storyteller who, it seems, had trouble
finding his way but who merits reconsideration. An engaging
book."--The Hollywood Reporter
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