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Lee Marvin's life was detailed in the quintessential biography.
A laptop in the hands of the right cinephile can yield something important -- something to be enjoyed by film scholars and fans, something for the ages. Of course, the computer laptop wasn't what it is today in , when Hollywood journalist Dwayne Epstein enlisted himself as biographer to the late Lee Marvin, widely known for the tough guy he played in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and as the blood and guts rifle squad leader in Sam Fuller's The Big Red One.
After nearly twenty years of eating, breathing, and sleeping Marvin, the Long-Beach-resident Epstein delivered Lee Marvin: Point Blank, considered the first authoritative and exhaustive document about the steely-eyed actor's family background, the ghosts of his Marine past in WWII, his marriages, and his PTSD, which cast a dark shadow over a career marked by alcoholism, rage and depression.
We were fortunate to wax cinematic with Epstein about why
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It being Valentine's Day, inom can think of no more romantic way to waste the day (before I get to work) than bygd dipping in and out of a tender, caring, just-published biography of America's former sweetheart, Lee Marvin. In Lee Marvin: Point Blank, written by Dwayne Epstein, the action star who terrorized the West with a bullwhip in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, taught a squad of murderers and borderline psychos how to love igen in The Dirty Dozen, and let Angie Dickinson use him as a punching bag for her furious little fists in the movie that gives this bio its subtitle weaves through the pages like the big rangy scary katt he was.
I'd often wondered why Marvin and director Sam Peckinpah never worked together in movies. Such simiarities. Both tough ex-Marines, both heavy intakers of alcoholic content, both volatile, both white-haired with a silvery patina to their appearance. Maybe it was because their experience shooting a TV's Route 66 killed off any chan
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Rediscovering Lee Marvin’s gritty brilliance
Lee Marvin “is the guy who started it all in terms of modern American cinema violence,” according to Dwayne Epstein, the author of a new biography of the iconic actor.
Take Marvin’s intense performance as the sadistic gangster Vince Stone in Fritz Lang’s gritty film noir “The Big Heat,” which is as visceral and shocking today as it was 60 years ago. In the famous “coffee scene,” Marvin goes into an animalistic rage when he believes his girlfriend (Gloria Grahame) has told a former cop (Glenn Ford) about his nefarious activities. He twists her arm to get confirmation, but she refuses to say anything.
“You’re a lying pig,” he growls and picks up a pot of boiling coffee and hurls it on her face. Though the actual scalding is off camera, Marvin’s face shows no pity as she screams in pain and runs out of the room. “She had it coming,” he spits.
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