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1. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsBrief encounters: How David Lean's sex life shaped his films

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   She gave him his only son, Peter, but Lean soon decided that cosy family domesticity was not for him, and just six years after the wedding, the marriage was over.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › David_LeanDavid Lean - Wikipedia

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   The film turned actor Peter O'Toole, playing Lawrence, into an international star, and was nominated for ten Oscars, winning seven, including Best Picture and Lean's second win for Best Director. He remains the only British director to win more than one Oscar for directing.

4. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by Peter Lean (Author of The Guns of Napoleon) - Goodreads

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   Peter Lean has 15 books on Goodreads with 420 ratings. Peter Lean’s most popular book is Wyrd Worlds.

5. www.goodreads.com › author › showPeter Lean (Author of The Guns of Napoleon) - Goodreads

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   Author of legal texts in the 'real world', he started to write fiction as an hobby, and under a pen-name. After a number of short stories, most of which science fiction, he has published 'The Guns of Napoleon', a cross-genre, time travel / historical novel, based on one of his first short stories, with the same title. Author of legal texts in ...

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6. www.nytimes.com › 1991/04/17 › obituariesDavid Lean, Film Director, Dies at 83 - The New York Times

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   Apr 17, 1991 · David Lean's directorial credits embrace intimate dramas as well as sweeping historical spectacles. Here are some of his major films, and the years they opened in London.

7. www.amazon.com › stores › Peter LeanAmazon.com: Peter Lean: books, biography, latest update

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   Follow Peter Lean and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Peter Lean Author Page.

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   Who was David Lean's first wife?

   • The joy of six: The leading ladies of David Lean David Lean's first wife was his cousin, Isabel Jean, who he married in 1930. She gave him his only son, Peter, but Lean soon decided that cosy family domesticity was not for him, and just six years after the wedding, the marriage was over.

   Brief encounters: How David Lean's sex life shaped his films

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   Who is David Lean?

   • David Lean was given honorary membership of the Guild of British Film Editors in 1968. His first work as a director was in collaboration with Noël Coward on In Which We Serve (1942), and he later adapted several of Coward's plays into successful films.

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   Why did David Lean leave London?

   • When David Lean left London for Paris in the spring of 1955, the film-maker's finances were in a parlous state. The 47-year-old had separated from his wife, the actor Ann Todd (whom he was to divorce two years later), while the taxman was clamouring for payment of £20,000 – an astronomical amount for those days – in unpaid dues.

   Brief encounters: How David Lean's sex life shaped his films

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   Is lean a romantic?

   • With Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell, Lean is one of the greatest film directors this country has produced. Like all of them, he is a romantic, and romanticism was his subject matter: the flourishing and the breaking of inordinate desires, the dangerous lure of beauty, of adventure and the untrammelled life.

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   How old was lean when he left school?

   • Lean was a half-hearted schoolboy with a dreamy nature who was labelled a "dud" of a student; he left school in the Christmas Term of 1926, at the age of 18, and entered his father's chartered accountancy firm as an apprentice.

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   Who were David Lean parents?

   • David Lean was born on 25 March 1908 at 38 Blenheim Crescent, South Croydon, Surrey (now part of Greater London ), to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye (niece of Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye ). His parents were Quakers and he was a pupil at the Quaker-founded Leighton Park School in Reading.

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9. www.amazon.com › Guns-Napoleon-Peter-Lean › dpThe Guns of Napoleon: Lean, Peter: 9781910162668: Amazon.com ...

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   Feb 17, 2014 · Filled with history, mystery, and a bit of romance (the perfect mix for a good book), Peter Lean's The Guns of Napoleon was a thrill to read. Joining the protagonist, Victor, a professor and Napoleon Bonaparte enthusiast, the reader is brought back in time to the early 19th century so he can witness Napoleon firsthand.

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