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Lloyd Nolan: An Actors Life With Meaning
Lloyd Nolan could play any character in any genre and was believable to every role. He was not acting; he was just real. He was Inspector Briggs in The House on 92nd Street and The Street With No Name. He was Dr. Swain in Peyton Place and, even as a bad guy, he was Lt. De Garmot in Lady in the Lake. Nolan's off-screen life was just as remarkable. He was devoted to his autistic son Jay and, when young Jay died in an accident 2500 miles away, Lloyd channeled his grief into action. For the rest of his life, he did everything he could to better the lives of disabled people and their families, and such people are still benefitting from the resulting legislation today. This is the story of the two lives of Lloyd Nolan--his prolific on-screen life that is so familiar to movieoers and television fans alike, and his off-screen life that has positively affected many throughout the country. His was a true Hollywood success story of a role model extraordinnaire!
310 pages, Paperback
First published December 6, 2010
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September 22, 2012
I was sorely disappointed when I read this book to find that the writing quality was so poor. Lloyd Nolan was a talented actor and I was very interested in learning something about his career and life, but this book gave very little information outside of step-by-step descriptions of the plots of his movies including spoilers. The voice is also more suited to a child audience, with random exclamations like, "Boys will be boys, eh?"
The book would benefit from a lot of editing. The font even changes sizes at one point. This reads like the author's notes and isn't even good enough to be considered a rough draft. He begins one thought without fully developing it and moves onto the next one. Many of these thoughts seem to be simply conjecture without explanations to back them up. There are massive amounts of filler here; the author writes about the remakes of Lloyd Nolan films even though they have nothing to do with him, seemingly to fill up space. The author wrote about one play he was in and then the eight remakes that came later. It is ridiculous that this even got published.
The book would benefit from a lot of editing. The font even changes sizes at one point. This reads like the author's notes and isn't even good enough to be considered a rough draft. He begins one thought without fully developing it and moves onto the next one. Many of these thoughts seem to be simply conjecture without explanations to back them up. There are massive amounts of filler here; the author writes about the remakes of Lloyd Nolan films even though they have nothing to do with him, seemingly to fill up space. The author wrote about one play he was in and then the eight remakes that came later. It is ridiculous that this even got published.
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