9780813169835-0813169836-Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act (Screen Classics)

Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act (Screen Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780813169835
ISBN-10: 0813169836
Author: Jeff Corey, Emily Corey
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780813169835
ISBN-10: 0813169836
Author: Jeff Corey, Emily Corey
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act (Screen Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780813169835 and ISBN-10: 0813169836), written by authors Jeff Corey, Emily Corey, was published by University Press of Kentucky in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act (Screen Classics) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.27.

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Jeff Corey (1914–2002) made a name for himself in the 1940s as a character actor in films like Superman and the Mole Men (1951), Joan of Arc (1948), and The Killers (1946). Everything changed in 1951, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Corey refused to name names and was promptly blacklisted, which forced him to walk away from a vibrant livelihood as an actor and embark on a career as one of the industry's most revered acting instructors.

In Improvising Out Loud: My Life Teaching Hollywood How to Act, Corey recounts his extraordinary story. Among the actors who would soon fill his classes were James Dean, Kirk Douglas, Jane Fonda, Rob Reiner, Jack Nicholson, and Leonard Nimoy. In 1962, when the blacklist ended, Corey was one of the industry's first trailblazers to seamlessly reboot his acting career and secure roles in some of the classic films of the era, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), True Grit (1969), and Little Big Man (1970), in which he starred as the infamous Wild Bill Hickok.

Throughout his life, Corey sought to capture the human heart: in conflict, in terror, in love, and in all of its small triumphs. His memoir, which he wrote with his daughter Emily Corey, provides a unique and personal perspective on the man whose teaching inspired some of Hollywood's biggest names to star in the roles that made them famous.

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