James Agee
Birthday: 27 November 1909, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Birth Name: James Rufus Agee
James Agee, Pulitzer Prize winning author, was born in Knoxville in 1909. The intense writer was to enjoy little real success in his lifetime, but after death won accolades. In 1958 he won the Pulitze ...Show More
[reviewing Tycoon (1947)] Several tons of dynamite are set off in this movie, none of it under the r Show more
[reviewing Tycoon (1947)] Several tons of dynamite are set off in this movie, none of it under the right people. Hide
[on John Huston]: A natural-born anti-authoritarian individualistic libertarian anarchist, without p Show more
[on John Huston]: A natural-born anti-authoritarian individualistic libertarian anarchist, without portfolio. Hide
[on Lauren Bacall] She has a javelin-like vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce Show more
[on Lauren Bacall] She has a javelin-like vitality, a born dancer's eloquence in movement, a fierce female shrewdness and a special sweet sourness. With these faculties, plus a stone-crushing self-confidence and a trombone voice, she manages to get across the toughest girl a piously regenerate Hollywood had dreamed of in a long, long while. Hide
[on Judy Garland] How good she is! She is no Venus, let us admit--but how delightful is her smile, h Show more
[on Judy Garland] How good she is! She is no Venus, let us admit--but how delightful is her smile, how genuine her emotion, how sure her timing, and how brilliantly she brings off her effects. Hide
[on Gracie Fields] I think Miss Fields is about as nice a woman over 40 as I have ever seen; I have Show more
[on Gracie Fields] I think Miss Fields is about as nice a woman over 40 as I have ever seen; I have certainly never seen anyone in movies to approach her in that age bracket. Hide
All over Alabama the lamps are out--Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
All over Alabama the lamps are out--Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
[reviewing Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)] Vaudeville is dead; I wish to God someone would bury Show more
[reviewing Give My Regards to Broadway (1948)] Vaudeville is dead; I wish to God someone would bury it. Hide
[on D.W. Griffith] There is not a man working in movies, nor a man who cares for them, who does not Show more
[on D.W. Griffith] There is not a man working in movies, nor a man who cares for them, who does not owe Griffith more than he owes anyone else. Hide
[reviewing The Iron Curtain (1948)] If it could be proved that there is any nation on earth which do Show more
[reviewing The Iron Curtain (1948)] If it could be proved that there is any nation on earth which does not employ spies, that would be news. This is just the same old toothless dog biting the same old legless man. Hide
A streetcar raising its iron moan; stopping, belling and starting; stertorous; rousing and raising a Show more
A streetcar raising its iron moan; stopping, belling and starting; stertorous; rousing and raising again its iron increasing moan and swimming its gold windows and straw seats on past and past and past, the bleak spark crackling and cursing above it like a small malignant spirit set to dog its tracks; the iron whine rises on rising speed; still risen, faints, halts, the faint stinging bell; rises again, still fainter, fainting, lifting, lifts, faints forgone: forgotten. Now is that night one blue dew. Hide
James Agee's FILMOGRAPHY
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