Kirk Douglas More Is Never Enough: Oozing Masculinity, a Young

Kirk Douglas More Is Never Enough: Oozing Masculinity, a Young Horndog Sets Out to Conquer Hollywood & To Bed Its Leading Ladies (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)

Of all the male stars of Golden Age Hollywood, Kirk Douglas became the final survivor, the last icon of a fabled era that the world will never see again. When he celebrated his birthday in 2016, a headline readâ€•LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD HORNDOG TURNS 100.

He was both a charismatic actor and a man of uncommon force and vigor. His restless and volcanic spirit is reflected both in his films and through his many sexual conquests.

Douglas was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, his father a ragman. After service in the Navy during World War II, he hit Hollywood, oozing masculinity and charm. Conquering Tinseltown and bedding its leading ladies, he became the personification of the American dream, moving from obscurity and (literally) rags to riches and major-league fame.

The Who's Who cast of characters roaring through his life featured not only a daunting list of Hollywood goddesses, but the town's most colossal male talents and egos, too. They included his kindred hellraiser and best buddy Burt Lancaster, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Billy Wilder, Laurence Olivier, Rock Hudson, and a future U.S. President, Ronald Reagan.

Douglas began his conquests in New York, stealing the virginity of model Betty Bacall before she moved to Hollywood, changed her name to Lauren, and married Humphrey Bogart.

Later, both Marilyn Monroe and Lana Turner pursued him for boudoir duty. â€œI had them allâ€¦well, almost,â€ he boasted.

He interpreted Joan Crawford as â€œthe equivalent of six sisters and a mother.â€ Rita Hayworth â€œhad what other girls hadâ€¦only more so.â€ Marlene Dietrich was â€œthe personification of sexuality,â€ and Ava Gardner was â€œthe hottest game in town.â€

â€œBarbara Stanwyck may have had a lezzie streak, but not with me. Call her a tigress.

Over the decades, he immortalized himself in film after film, delivering, like a Trojan, one memorable performance after another. He was at home in film noir, as a western gunslinger, as an adventurer (in both ancient and modern sagas), as a juggler, as Tennessee Williams' â€œgentleman caller,â€ as a Greek super-hero in Ulysses, and as roguish sailor in the Jules Verne yarn, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, exploring the mysteries of the ocean's depths.

En route to his status as a myth and legend, his performances reflected both his personal pain and the brutalization of the characters he played, too. In Champion (1949), he was beaten to a fatal bloody pulp. As the sleazy, heartless reporter in Ace in the Hole (1951), he was stabbed with a knife in his gut. As Van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), he writhed in emotional agony and unrequited love before slicing off his ear with a razor. His World War I movie, Paths of Glory (1957) grows more profound over the years. He lost an eye in The Vikings (1958), and, as the Thracian slave leading a revolt against Roman legions in Spartacus (1960), he was nailed to a cross.

All of this is brought out, with photos, in this remarkable testimonial to the last hero of Hollywood's cinematic and swashbuckling Golden Age, an inspiring testimonial to the values and core beliefs of an America that's Gone with the Wind, yet lovingly remembered as a time when it, in many ways, was truly great.
Country USA
Brand Blood Moon Productions
Manufacturer Blood Moon Productions
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 150 Halftones, black and white
ReleaseDate 2019-04-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781936003617

Country	USA
Brand	Blood Moon Productions
Manufacturer	Blood Moon Productions
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	150 Halftones, black and white
ReleaseDate	2019-04-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781936003617

Kirk Douglas More Is Never Enough: Oozing Masculinity, a Young Horndog Sets Out to Conquer Hollywood & To Bed Its Leading Ladies (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)

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