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Title: MOVIELAND
HOLLYWOOD AND THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM CULTURE
By: Jerome Charyn
Format: Paperback

List price: £21.99


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ISBN 10: 0814715508
ISBN 13: 9780814715505
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 August, 1996
Pages: 304
Description: Mingles the author's own life as a moviegoer with the history, romance, and sadness of Hollywood. The author meets Paul Newman, Viveca Lindfors, and Mae Clark, the actress who was the original bride of Frankenstein; and explores Cinecitta, Mussolini's own Hollywood on the Tiber.
Synopsis: In Movieland, Jerome Charyn mingles his own life as a moviegoer with the history, romance, and sadness of Hollywood. He meets Paul Newman, Viveca Lindfors, and Mae Clark, the actress who was the original bride of Frankenstein; explores Cinecitta, Mussolini's own Hollywood on the Tiber; recalls his own life as Otto Preminger's house writer (and jester) during Preminger's decline; reinvents the lost years and lost stars of the silent era --Irving Thalberg, Gloria Swanson, and Clara Bow -- and seeks out the hieroglyphics of modern Hollywood; writes of the Nazi officer who saved the Cinematheque Francaise and its library of American films; and pays homage to Hollywood's heroes, victims, goddesses, and neglected lords: Louise Brooks, Raymond Chandler, Carole Landis, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, and more.
Publication: US
Imprint: New York University Press
Returns: Returnable
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