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Title: To "B" or Not to "B: A Film Actor's Odyssey by Robert Clarke ISBN: 1-887664-02-5 Publisher: Midnight Marquee Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: For those who love Hollywood movies
Comment: Here is a refreshing change: a Hollywood autobiography (or sort of) written by someone who refuses to take himself too seriously. The result is one of the most engaging memoirs to have come down the pike in quite a while. Robert Clarke is almost too self-effacing; he is much better remembered than he thinks. Clarke was never a major star (not even close) but a true-blue working Hollywood actor -- and one with a keen sense of observation. Unforgettable as the dog boy in Val Lewton's Bedlam, Clarke went on to appear in Tim Holt Westerns, played supporting roles (some mere walk-ons) in more prestigious fare and starred in very early television swashbucklers. Never boring the reader with endless obscure personal details (Clarke, lone among Hollywood survivors apparently, doesn't seem to have had a horrible childhood), the author recounts working for next-to-nothing in no-budget B-movies, for Ida Lupino and Jack "just the facts, ma'm" Webb. and others too numerous to mention. He even produced and directed a couple of 1950s sci-fi flicks. All of this is recounted in engaging fashion and devoid of fake sentimentality. Robert Clarke is probably not well-known enough to have been published by Random House -- but that is their loss. Happily, horror specialist Tom Weaver brought him to Gary and Susan Svehla's Midnight Marquee, one of these technically up-to-par genre publishing houses made possible by new technology. It is due to folks like Weaver and the Svehlas that film books make such delightful reading these days.