- Source: Scott Eyman
Scott Eyman (born March 2, 1951) is an American author, and former book editor and art critic of The Palm Beach Post. He is a frequent book reviewer for The Wall Street Journal and Film Comment, and was a contributor for The New York Observer.
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.
His books specialize in the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is the author of Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise, (Simon & Schuster, 2020); Hank & Jim: The Fifty-Year Friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, (2017); John Wayne: The Life and Legend, (2014); Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille, (2010); Louis B. Mayer: Lion of Hollywood (Simon & Schuster, (2005); Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford (2001); Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (1993); The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930 (1997); Mary Pickford: 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's autobiography, Pieces of My Heart: A Life, written with Eyman, was published on 23 September 2008, and was on the New York Times 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).
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: A Brilliant Disguise (2020)
20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio (2021)
Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided (2023)
External links
Articles for The New York Observer
Review of "Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise," The Washington Post, October 28, 2020 [1]
Book review: 'Empire of Dreams' by Scott Eyman, Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2010
Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille, The Washington Post, October 24, 2010
Scott Eyman at IMDb
Biography, Scott Eyman website
Finding aid author: John N. Gillespie (2015). "Scott Eyman papers". Prepared for the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Provo, UT. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Louis B. Mayer
- A Family Affair (film 1937)
- Song of Russia
- Thy Name is Woman
- Crossfire (film)
- Conquest (film 1937)
- The War Lover
- Freaks
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Film musikal
- Scott Eyman
- Louis B. Mayer
- Adrian Scott
- Robert Wagner
- James Stewart
- Cecil B. DeMille
- John Wayne
- Eyman (surname)
- Robert Montgomery (actor)
- Lionel Barrymore