Ron Howard, Beverly Gray
Ron Howard, Beverly Gray
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Ron Howard
From Mayberry to the Moon...and Beyond

Author: Beverly Gray

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/02/2021

Synopsis

Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon . . . and Beyond, the first full-length biography of Ron Howard, takes an in-depth look at the Oklahoma boy who gained national fame as a child star, then grew up to be one of Hollywood's most admired directors. Although many show biz kids founder as they approach adulthood, Ron Howard had the advantage of brains, common sense, and two down-to-earth parents who kept him from having an inflated view of his own accomplishments. He also had a longstanding goal: to trade the glare of the spotlight for a quieter but equally creative life behind the camera. This biography tracks his career from 1960, when he debuted as six-year-old Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show through 2002, when he accepted his Academy Award® as Best Director for A Beautiful Mind.

Author Beverly Gray, an entertainment industry veteran, has spoken to teachers, friends, and professional colleagues from all phases of Howard's career. She has also combed the archives to gain further insight into this very private man whose accomplishments have brought pleasure to so many.

About Beverly Gray

Beverly Gray spent nearly a decade serving as Roger Corman's story editor at both New World Pictures and Concorde-New Horizons Pictures. She has covered the entertainment industry for the Hollywood Reporter and leads screenwriting workshops for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program. Gray is the author of Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers, as well as Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation. Her popular twice-weekly blog about all things Hollywood is known as Beverly in Movieland (beverlyinmovieland.com).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on April 07, 2021

I enjoyed the book confirming what God has been feeding me for a while from different directions, that even the advantaged, the gifted, need to learn and to develop their gifts. The author does an admirable job tracing the consistencies in Howard's character even as she helps point out ways in which......more

Goodreads review by Mediaman on December 05, 2018

This author had no access to Ron Howard or anyone close to him, so she simply rehashes quotes from articles and videos she watched. It's all written like a high school term paper with confusing tense changes and no attributions for where she got some of the information. While she claims to have inte......more

Goodreads review by Bob on August 14, 2020

A Hollywood rarity - a genuinely good man I grew up in an LA beach suburb and some of my friends had parents who worked in Hollywood. One of my high school classmates was the daughter of the first TV Lois Lane. Still the Hollywood folks seemed a far cry from my working class parents. Ron Howard was lu......more

Goodreads review by Robin on December 12, 2021

Early on the author of this rehash says that Ron Howard declined the opportunity to be interviewed. Once I started reading the book, I could see why. The book is poorly written and contains no insight. The quotes read like blurbs from press releases. They are fawning beyond belief. I got through abo......more

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