Scott Eyman (born March 2, 1951) is an American author, and former book editor and art critic of ''
The Palm Beach Post
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''. He is a frequent book reviewer for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' and ''Film Comment,'' and was a contributor for ''
The New York Observer
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''. His books specialize in the
Golden Age of Hollywood
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. He is the author of ''
Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. He was known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. He was one o ...
: A Brilliant Disguise'', (
Simon & Schuster
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, 2020); ''
Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart'', (2017); ''
John Wayne
Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke or Duke Wayne, was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood's Gol ...
: The Life and Legend'', (2014); ''Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...
'', (2010); ''
Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1882 or 1884 or 1885 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industr ...
: Lion of Hollywood'' (
Simon & Schuster
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, (2005); ''Print the Legend: The Life and Times of
John Ford
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'' (2001); ''
Ernst Lubitsch
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: Laughter in Paradise'' (1993); ''The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930'' (1997); ''
Mary Pickford
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: America's Sweetheart'' (1990), and ''Five American Cinematographers'' (1987). With co-author Louis Giannetti, he published ''
Flashback: A Brief History of Film'' (1986), now in its seventh edition.
Robert Wagner
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's
autobiography
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, ''Pieces of My Heart: A Life'', written with Eyman, was published on 23 September 2008, and was on the ''
New York Times
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'' Bestseller List. Their second collaboration, ''You Must Remember This'', was published March 11, 2014, about life off the studio lot, and was also on the ''New York Times'' Bestseller List (March 30, 2014). Their third collaboration was ''I Loved Her In The Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses,'' (2016).
He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami in the Department of Cinema & Interactive Media, where he has taught film history since 2015.
Books
*''Flashback: A Brief History of Film'' (1986) with Louis D. Giannetti
*''Five American Cinematographers'' (1987)
*''Mary Pickford: America's Sweetheart'' (1990)
*''Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise'' (1993)
*''The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930'' (1997)
*''Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford'' (1999)
*''Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood'' (2005)
*''Pieces of My Heart: A Life'' (2008) with Robert Wagner
*''Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille'' (2010)
*''You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden Age'' (2014) with Robert Wagner
*''John Wayne: The Life and Legend'' (2014)
*''I Loved Her In The Movies: Memories of Hollywood's Legendary Actresses'' (2016) with Robert Wagner
*''Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart'' (2017)
*''
Cary Grant
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904November 29, 1986) was an English-American actor. He was known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, light-hearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing. He was one o ...
: A Brilliant Disguise'' (2020)
External links
Articles for ''The New York Observer''*Review of "Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise," The Washington Post,October 28, 202
Book review: 'Empire of Dreams' by Scott Eyman, ''Los Angeles Times'', August 25, 2010*
*
ttp://www.scotteyman.com/Bio.html Biography, Scott Eyman website*
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1951 births
American male non-fiction writers
American film historians
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Living people