Manny Farber was born on February 20, 1917 in Douglas, Arizona, USA. He was a writer, known for Negative Space (2000). He was married to Patricia Patterson, Janet Terrace and Marsha Picker. He died on August 18, 2008 in Leucadia, California, USA.
[on William A. Wellman]: In any Bill Wellman operation, there are at least four directors - a sentimentalist, deep thinker, hooey vaudevillian and an expedient short-cut artist whose special love is for mulish toughs expressing themselves in drop-kicking heads and sombre standing around.
[on Anthony Mann]: The films of this tin-can De Sade have a Germanic rigor, caterpillar intimacy, and an original dictionary of ways in which to punish the human body. Mann has done interesting work with scissors, a cigarette lighter and steam, but his most bizarre effect takes place in a taxidermist's shop. By intricate manipulation of athletes' bodies, Mann tries to ram the eyes of his combatants on the horns of a stuffed deer stuck on the wall.