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James Curtis was born in Los Angeles and graduated from California State University at Fullerton. He is the author of numerous biographies, among them W.C. Fields; James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters and Between Flops, a biography of Preston Sturges. He lives with his wife in Brea, California.

Books by James Curtis

Buster Keaton

From acclaimed cultural and film historian James Curtis—a major biography, the first in more than two decades, of the legendary comedian and filmmaker who elevated physical comedy to the highest of arts and whose ingenious films remain as startling, innovative, modern—and irresistible—today as they were when they beguiled audiences almost a century ago.

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Spencer Tracy

The complete, compelling, turbulent life of one of the greatest of all screen actors

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