ARTHUR PENN: American Director He directed the musical La

He directed the musical La Cage aux Folles in 1983 and received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical

and the Art of the Street & Smith Universe gives fans a rare glimpse into the pre-war pulp novel decade of the 1930s

and occasionally lurid

whose biography on Ruth Chatterton made The Huffington Post’s “Best Film Books of 2013

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ARTHUR PENN: American Director He directed the musical LaFirst published to acclaim in 2011, Arthur Penn: American Director is the first biography of the acclaimed director of The Miracle Worker, Little Big Man, Alices Restaurant, The Chase, Mickey One, The Missouri Breaks, and, of course, the motion picture that fired the first shot in the Film Revolution, Bonnie and Clyde. Born in Philadelphia to immigrant parents in 1922 and raised in Dickensian circumstances, Penn (and his older brother, Irving, who