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Nicholas Ray managed to whelp a re¬
markable body of work. No director could
have elicited a finer portrait of bedeviled

genius than Humphrey Bogart gave in In
a Lonely Hlace. And who could have
made more explicable the anguish of the
young adults played by James Dean and
Natalie Wood in Hebei Without a Cause?

Ray's devoted wife, 40 years
junior, edited this book from his
mostly unpublished writings, interviews
and classroom lectures. Susan Ray's
beautifully written introduction tells
frankly of the idiosyncrasies that made
Ray almost impossible to cope with, yet
her love for him and his genius is always
his

evident.
A product of rural Wisconsin,
Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr. became
Nick Ray, an actor of the left-wing The¬
atre of Action in New York, and later a
theater arts director for the government.
His work with John Houseman led to a

seven-year writer-director stint at RKO
Radio as a protege of Howard Hughes. In
1953 he left to free-lance, but his "bril¬
liant but unreliable" reputation kept him
from achieving independence. While

working

on 55Days at Peking in 1963 he
sidelined with a heart attack. After
much roving he settled down to teaching.
He died in 1979.
There isn't much information
about his movies in this book, but it is
filled with his ideas and philosophy
was

about life and

piece of work.

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