Download or read book James Whale, a Biography, Or, The Would-be Gentleman written by Mark Gatiss and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of the British director who made films like Frankenstein and The Invisible Man for Universal Studios in the 1930s, and who was described in Hollywood Babylon as a hedonist who enjoyed the sight of young men in bathing trunks and who was eventually brought down by a homophobic film industry. Whale made his mark in many genres, directing stage and screen versions of everything from The Man in the Iron Mask to Showboat and Waterloo Bridge. Distributed in the U.S. by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR