Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood - Todd McCarthy - Google Books

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The first major biography of one of Old Hollywood’s greatest directors.   Sometime partner of the eccentric Howard Hughes, drinking buddy of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, an inveterate gambler and a notorious liar, Howard Hawks was the most modern…