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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999, author.     Subjects     Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999.     Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.     Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999, author.       by title:      Hollywood : stars an...         MARC Display

Hollywood : stars and starlets, tycoons and flesh-peddlers, moviemakers and moneymakers, frauds and geniuses, hopefuls and has-beens, great lovers and sex symbols / Garson Kanin. by Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999, author. New York, N.Y. : Viking Press, [1974] Subjects Kanin, Garson, 1912-1999.   Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.   Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.   Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Biography. ISBN:  0670375756 9780670375752 Description:  393 pages ; 24 cm Contents:  Samuel Goldwyn -- John Barrymore -- Carole Lombard -- Leo McCarey -- Charles Chaplin -- Ginger Rogers. Requests:  0 Summary:  Hilarious, audacious, poignant, scandalous, breathtaking, this book is everything--and more than--its name implies. From his own adventures there, Garson Kanin has drawn the material for a witty, wise, and dazzling panorama of this magical place. Kanin arrived in Hollywood at the age of 24, brought from New York at the bidding of the great producer Samuel Goldwyn "to learn the business." As the man who would become one of our most celebrated writer-directors now describes it, "I checked into the Goldwyn Studios on Monday morning and Alice in Wonderland was a piker." It was 1937, one of Hollywood's golden years, when it seemed that just about anything could happen. Looking back now over a career as full of drama, excitement, and glamour as any fabled movie extravaganza, Kanin tells us what actually did take place. With him we explore the inside workings of the industry--the tempestuous and often comical story conferences, the contract negotiations, the front-office conflicts. But artistry is not forgotten, as revealed by tantalizing glimpses of such stars as Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, and Marilyn Monroe. There are off-screen appearances by Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx; backlot tales of success and failure for Charles Laughton, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Holliday, and Ginger Rogers; fond remembrances of movie pioneer Carl Laemmle; thoughtful appreciations of fellow filmmakers Billy Wilder and René Clair; surprise introductions to Hollywood's secret people, especially the enticing Mae and her Pleasure Palace; and fascinating, seldom-captured views of powerful men who shaped the industry--Harry Cohn, Darryl F. Zanuck, and the extraordinary Sam Goldwyn, whose career encompassed the full span of American filmmaking from its virtual beginnings to the 1960s. This is an incomparable display of talent, ambition, and skill, sketched in all its absorbing detail with Kanin's inimitable style and charm.--Adapted from dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 791.43 Kanin Ka Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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