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  1. Nov 1, 2022 · Isaac Butler is the author of “ The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act ” and the co-author, with Dan Kois, of “ The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America ...

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  2. Aug 14, 2014 · Garfield was never a Communist but was forced to testify; he died from a heart attack at 39 in 1952 and is often cast as a blacklist martyr. Years later, Mr. Polonsky (who died in 1999), wrote of ...

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  3. John Garfield (born Jacob Julius Garfinkle; March 4, 1913 – May 21, 1952) was an American actor who played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. [1] He grew up in poverty in New York City. In the early 1930s, he became a member of the Group Theatre. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood, eventually becoming one of Warner Bros. ' stars.

  4. Oct 29, 1999 · The film earned Mr. Polonsky his second Oscar nomination, a year after receiving a nomination for "Body and Soul," a boxing story featuring fighter Garfield caught between his family and gangsters.

  5. Oct 29, 1999 · Abraham Polonsky, a director and screenwriter who was an early Hollywood master of film noir and who worked under many disguises after being blacklisted in the McCarthy era, died Tuesday in his ...

  6. Jan 30, 2003 · By Bernard Weinraub. Jan. 30, 2003. Before James Dean and Marlon Brando, before Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, there was John Garfield. A tough kid who grew up in the 1920's on the streets of the ...

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  8. Oct 28, 1999 · Polonsky, who scripted and directed such films as “Force of Evil” and “Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here,” died Tuesday at his Beverly Hills home after suffering a massive heart attack. For the ...

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