This book focuses on the perception of the names, personae, performances and films of three Hollywood megastars, Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and William Holden, as presented in the references and allusions encountered in American and foreign literature. Its secondary aim is to establish the ''impact factor'' of the three actors and their major films and provide extensive data for further studies on the complex and bilateral relationships between film and literature.
The pertinent quotations in ''Three Hollywood Stalwarts in Literature: A Study in Film Perception Through References to Peck, Mitchum and Holden'' have been extracted from nearly 220 works by about 140 authors. The majority of the works were written by acclaimed authors; amongst them are some well-known American mainstream writers such as John Updike, John Irving, Fannie Flagg and Anne Tyler; some leaders of the mystery genre include Martha Grimes, Stuart Kaminsky, Elmore Leonard, Sara Paretsky; a
