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Article: Lancaster's Hollywood "A Big Circus".(Review)
- Article from:
- Video Age International
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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The story of Burt Lancaster begins with the idea of America, with the belief that you can journey to another place and become another person," wrote Kate Buford in Burt Lancaster: An American Life (Alfred A Knopf, pp. 447). Descended from ambitious Irish immmigrants, Lancaster rose from humble beginnings to Hollywood fame.
Born in 1919, Lancaster grew up in the progressive neighborhood of East Harlem. A large chunk of his time was spent at the Union Street settlement house, a place Lancaster would later say was one of the most important influences on his childhood, second to his mother. He participated in sports and plays and it was there that he met a former ...