Laird Cregar

A Hollywood Tragedy

By: Gregory William Mank

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Paperback | 21 February 2019

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In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6'' 3" and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer of psychopaths and villains. Determined to break free of this typecasting, he desperately desired to become "a beautiful man," embarking on an extreme diet that killed him at 31. This first biography of Cregar tells the heartbreaking story of the brilliant but doomed actor. Appendices cover his film, theatre, and radio work. Many never before published photographs are included.

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"decades of research...the author brings Cregar back to vivid life in this culmination of an 'almost lifelong' fascination with the actor...as with most good Hollywood biographies, this one interweaves its subject's life story with the story of the movie business itself...Mank finds joy as well as tragedy in Cregar's attempt to live his dream...gives rich life to an unknown Hollywood story"-Booklist

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