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Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
ISBN
9780982890202
Publication Year
2010
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Hollywood East : Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio System
Author
Altman
Publisher
Tapley Cove Press
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Performing Arts
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism, Industries / Entertainment
Number of Pages
Xvii, 302 Pages

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How did the business of movies grow? Who were the people who made it grow? What innovative twists did mobsters Al Capone and Willie Bioff add? Hollywood East tells the story of how the movies evolved as a business-a business controlled from the Eastern seaboard. As Diana Altman notes, "Hollywood was a pretty face but New York was the heart and lungs." Most film historians concentrate on the Hollywood studios and treat the New York side as an unimportant annoyance to the creative geniuses of Hollywood. In fact, New York ran the whole show, and the geniuses were merely employees as far as New York was concerned. Many of the elements of film art and technology were developed in the East. The screen test was an eastern innovation. James Stewart, Joan Crawford, Ava Gardner, and many other unknown actors who became stars got their start in the Fifty-fourth Street Manhattan studio where MGM screen tests were shot. Hollywood East is the story of Louis B. Mayer from his days as a theater owner in New England through his tenure as studio head at MGM, through his dismissal from the company bearing his name. It is the story of William Fox, the avaricious founder of Fox News (1919), the mightiest newsreel company, and Fox Film which eventually merged with Twentieth Century. At one time Fox sought to control the entire film industry and had a net worth of $100 million. Sent to prison for bribery, he sank into such obscurity that the New York Times referred to him as "the late William Fox" while he was still alive. It is the story of Marcus Loew, the benevolent ruler of the countrys largest theater chain. It is the story of Adolph Zukor, Samuel Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille, and other pioneers. Its all here: how the stars emerged, how the public relations mills did their jobs, how the moguls put aside their rivalries when they were threatened by adverse publicity. Many of the photographs in the book are from the one-of-a-kind collection of the authors father.

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Publisher
Tapley Cove Press
ISBN-10
0982890206
ISBN-13
9780982890202
eBay Product ID (ePID)
122822160

Product Key Features

Book Title
Hollywood East : Louis B. Mayer and the Origins of the Studio System
Author
Altman
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism, Industries / Entertainment
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
Xvii, 302 Pages

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pn1993.5.U65a47 2010
Copyright Date
1992
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
384.80973
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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