CLIFTON WEBB: A One-Person Play in Two Acts (The Hollywood Legends) - Softcover

Druxman, Michael B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1798773848 ISBN 13: 9781798773840

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Clifton Webb was one of those rare motion picture actors who became a major box-office star when he was in his mid-fifties. Indeed, his first sound movie was LAURA (1944), and his role as “Waldo Lydecker” in that classic film noir earned him the first of three Oscar nominations. Four years later, Clifton Webb became a household name when he played “Lynn Belvedere” and poured a bowl of mush onto a baby’s head in SITTING PRETTY. He would appear as “Belvedere” in two subsequent films, and also star in such memorable entertainments as THE RAZOR'S EDGE, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER, TITANIC (1953) and THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN.Webb was no novice when he began his motion picture career. He started his journey in show business at age five, when his stage mother, Maybelle, left her husband in Indiana and took young Clifton to New York. Maybelle would remain the most important and influential person in her son’s life until she died when Webb was in his seventies. Over the years, Webb would become one of the most revered actor-dancers in nightclubs, on Broadway; in London and Paris. He introduced Irving Berlin’s “Easter Parade” to the public, and worked with the likes of Noel Coward, Fred Allen and The Dolly Sisters, as well as enjoying troubled relationships with actresses Jeanne Eagels and Libby Holman.Michael B. Druxman’s one-person play, CLIFTON WEBB, finds the actor in his Beverly Hills home, still mourning the death of his mother. He ponders returning to work in a new film while, at the same time, struggling with his and Maybelle’s unsettled relationship.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael B. Druxman,author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD: From the Secret Files of HarryPennypacker, is a veteran Hollywood screenwriter whose credits includeCHEYENNE WARRIOR with Kelly Preston, DILLINGER AND CAPONE starringMartin Sheen and F. Murray Abraham, and THE DOORWAY with Roy Scheider,which he also directed.

He is also a prolific playwright. Amonghis many works is the one-person play, JOLSON, which has had numerousproductions around the country.

Additionally, he is the author of over a dozen other published books, including several nonfiction worksabout Hollywood, its movies, and the people who make them (e.g., BASILRATHBONE: His Life and His Films, and MAKE IT AGAIN, SAM: A Survey ofMovie Remakes), plus two novels, NOBODY DROWNS IN MINERAL LAKE andSHADOW WATCHER and a book of short stories, DRACULA MEETS JACK THERIPPER & Other Revisionist Histories.

His memoir, MY FORTY-FIVE YEARS IN HOLLYWOOD...AND HOW I ESCAPED ALIVE, was published in 2010.

Mr. Druxman resides in Austin, TX.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1798773848
• ISBN 13: 9781798773840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64