Gregory Peck's family is defending the screen legend from a new biography that portrays him as a mediocre actor and calculating opportunist. In The Enchanted Life, Lynne Haney writes that when the married actor's romance with Ingrid Bergman failed after they made Alfred Hitchcock's Enchanted, Peck made every effort to remain friends with her.
"From a career perspective, it was a smart strategy. Domestically, it probably didn't work as well." The author writes that when Senator Joe McCarthy was hunting down the Reds in Hollywood, Peck “never took a forward position on the barricades. His position was not one of the boldest.
Source: New York Daily News