A Star across the Spectrum: In Memory of Beverly Bentley

Authors

Beverly Bentley, tribute, theater, film, Hemingway

The editor recalls meeting Beverly Bentley at the 2008 Carnegie Hall memorial for Norman Mailer and reflects on her career and her presence.

Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentiethcentury literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the author or editor of five books, including Mind of An Outlaw (Random House, 2013). He has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays, including readings of the films of Wallace Fox, Joseph H. Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, Ida Lupino, Edgar Ulmer, Robert Wiene, and Billy Wilder. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume: Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021), and forthcoming essays, “Norman Mailer’s Literary Criticism” in Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021), “Bathos in the Bowery,” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (U of Edinburgh P, 2021), and “Ethical Encounter(s): Narrative Performance in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises” (2021).