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Split Image: Life of Anthony Perkins Book

Though Anthony Perkins played roles as diverse as a lawman of the old West in The Tin Star and Eugene Grant in the play Look Homeward Angel, he is best remembered for his performance as the maniacal son of a monstrous mother in Psycho. In Split Image, Charles Winecoff explains how Psycho pigeon-holed Perkins into similar roles and stagnated his professional life. His private life was equally vexatious--his father died when he was 5 and his mother controlled his finances until she died. He was married for 19 years but remained an active homosexual, engaging in a lifestyle that ultimately led to his death from AIDS in 1992.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Split Image insightfully and comprehensively documents the life of this brilliant actor who was forever struggling to find himself while paying the high price of fame. Hollywood figures such as Tab Hunter, Gregory Peck, Dominick Dunne, Janet Leigh, and Mary Tyler Moore help Winecoff plumb the twists and turns of Perkins' double life.

  • 0452278392
  • 9780452278394
  • Charles Winecoff
  • 30 April 1998
  • Plume
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 496
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