Rent Dangerous Intimacy (2010)
3.6 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 13min
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- Synopsis:
For the first time a documentary unflinchingly explores Mark Twain's tumultuous last years. Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, interviews with noted scholars and Twain's own recollections from his newly-published autobiography, Dangerous Intimacy reveals how the famous author enjoyed the attentions of a flirtatious and calculating young secretary, Isabel Lyon, who desperately wanted to marry him. With the help of Twain's assistant, an Englishman named Ralph Ashcroft, Lyon exiled Twain's daughter Jean, an epileptic, to a sanitarium and nearly succeeded in assuming complete control over the author's household and estate. The narrative is drawn from a book by Karen Lystra and is also based on Twain's uncensored autobiography which is being published now, one hundred years after his death, in three volumes by the University of California Press. - Actors:
- Leer Leary
- Directors:
- Richard Altomonte
- Producers:
- Richard Altomonte
- Narrated By:
- Bob Cudmore
- Writers:
- Richard Altomonte
- Aka:
- Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
- Studio:
- Beckmann Visual Publishing
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
