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Ray, Nicca, author.

Ray by Ray : a daughter's take on the legend of Nicholas Ray / a memoir by Nicca Ray ; with an introduction by Samantha Fuller.

First edition.

New York : Three Rooms Press, [2020]

ii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Nicca Ray offers a new perspective of the Hollywood director, Nicholas Ray. As the director of classic films, he was an innovative force who changed the Hollywood landscape. As her father, however, he was someone she longed to connect with. Through his movies, letters, and interviews with family members and Hollywood icons, Nicca unravels the story of who he really was and who she has become.

Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979.

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Biographies.

Fuller, Samantha, writer of introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction by Samantha Fuller -- Please allow me to introduce myself -- Tinkerbell Betty -- For love and theater -- For love and music -- The darkness -- Be free -- States of mind -- For love and Hollywood -- Bigger than life -- My Keechie to his Bowie -- In a lonely place -- Betty -- Rebel without a cause -- Near death party girl experience or How to kill a party girl spirit or How to zap a star of its shine or It would have been easier to kill yourself than to have married Nicholas Ray -- Babies speed and movies -- A dog does not a father make -- Photo interlude -- Family ties -- Identity lapse -- Homecoming -- Boys and drinks and dirty old men -- Break your plans because I have five minutes to give you -- Dear Darling, I've come to say goodbye -- The call -- Abandon -- In your end is my beginning -- Bring it on home.

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