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Blake Edwards
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Blake Edwards

by William Luhr, Peter Lehman
August 2023
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 14m
English
Wiley-Blackwell
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction: “Call Me Blake.”

Today, Blake Edwards at best is primarily known to the public for ten films he directed at three points in his career beginning with Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Days of Wine and Roses in the early 1960s; followed by five mid-1960s to mid-1970s Pink Panther films; and culminating with “10,” S.O.B., and Victor/Victoria between 1979 and 1982. But this is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Edwards is rightly often considered the most important filmmaker of his generation. Yet even this overlooks the importance of his successful work in radio, television, and theater. It also excludes his extensive work in addition to directing as a writer, producer, and actor as well as his work as a studio artist. In this book we expand and refocus our understanding of this ceaselessly creative multimedia, multi-hyphenate artist, including major screenplays of films that were unproduced, a stage play script that has also not yet been produced, and a survey of his public one-man shows and retrospectives of his work as a studio artist featuring paintings and sculpture.

Although it is not widely known, Blake Edwards began his postwar filmmaking career in 1948 with a B Western, Panhandle, which he cowrote and coproduced and in which he acted. He followed that with another B Western, which he once again cowrote and coproduced. These were very low-budget films for minor studios, Monogram and Allied Artists. Edwards did not rise to sustained public prominence ...

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