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Anthony Quinn, from unlikely beginnings in revolutionary Mexico, is today internationally recognized as a consummate actor with over one hundred films to his credit. After he made his debut at twenty-one in a film called Parole (1936), Quinn made his way through a spate of "B movies" and went on to star in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), La Strada (1954), Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and Zorba the Greek (1965), as well as his Oscar-winning roles in Viva Zapata (1952) and Lust for Life (1956). During his years as an actor, Quinn has also maintained a working interest in sculpture, painting, and architecture, and has written screenplays. In 1972 he published The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait, which, as described in the New York Times Book Review (8 October 1972), is "a story that is by turns embarrassingly candid, boldly awkward, funny, tragic, moving and full of life."
The Original Sin is not the typical egoistic telling of fabulous success as a Hollywood star but, quite to the contrary, the narrative of Quinn's search for emotional health, self-understanding, and a sense of how the familial and cultural substance of his experience brought him to a crisis of personal faith that had him on the brink of despair.
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