Description: During his 50+ year career, garnering over fifty Academy Award wins and over 150 nominations, Alan Ladd, Jr.—known to friends and colleagues as Laddie—worked with world-famous filmmakers and actors and brought to life some of the most influential films of our time. In Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, Amanda Ladd-Jones endeavors to better understand her father—to see him not just as “Dad," the man who spent the majority of her childhood at the office—but the way his collaborators do, as a doyen of modern American cinema.