历届奥斯卡最佳男演员介绍英语专业课文GregoryPeck背景介绍.ppt

In 1949, Peck founded The La Jolla Playhouse, at his birthplace, along with his friends Mel Ferrer and Dorothy McGuire. This local community theater and landmark (now in a new home at the University of California, San Diego) still thrives today. It has attracted Hollywood film stars on hiatus both as performers and enthusiastic supporters since its inception. The La Jolla Playhouse Though an amiable and fun-loving man at home, pecks stern presence made him one of the screens great patriarchs. Though and caring, he was the quintessential mid-century american man - the good looing romantic lead across from audrey hepburn as well as the rugged ww2 bomber commander. For many, the actor and the charactershe portrayed were in separable; the authority of his passionate yet firm demeanor was attractive to post-war americans who longed for a more stable time. Pecks acting abilities were in high demand during World War II, since he was exempt from military service owing to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons from Martha Graham as part of his acting training. Twentieth Century Fox claimed he had injured his back while rowing at university, but in Pecks words, In Hollywood, they didnt think a dance class was macho enough, I guess. Ive been trying to straighten out that story for years. During the 1960s and 1970s, peck continued to challenge himself as an actor, appearing in thrillers, war films, western and in his bestt known film, to kill a mockingbird. Based on the book by Harper Lee, to kill a mockingbird addresses problems of racism and moral justice in personal and powful ways. As atticus finch, a lawyer in a small southern town, peck created a character that remains a great example of an individuals struggle for humanity within deeply inhumane conditions. It seems clear, however, that the reason for pecks constant assertion that to kill a mockingbird is his best film, was the films attention to the lives of children and the importance of