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Article: `Gregory Peck: A Biography' by Gary Fishgall; Scribner.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- April 17, 2002
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Readers beginning a biography on Hollywood legend Gregory Peck will not expect to come across the kind of salacious material that makes Kenneth Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" books bestsellers.
Peck has a reputation for being one of the most professional and gentlemanly actors in film, and biographer Gary Fishgall offers up any number of quotes confirming that fact (and using those exact words) from dozens of Peck's former co-stars and directors.
He wasn't perfect, however, and Fishgall does go into some detail about his rocky marriages, his drinking and brief flirtation with drugs, as well as his somewhat hush-hush rep for off-screen romancing of his ...