Hollywood remembered : an oral history of its golden age
A wide array of Tinseltown veterans share their stories of life in the city of dreams, from the days of silent pictures to the present. The 35 voices, many of whom have come to know Hollywood inside-out, range from film producers and movie stars to restauranteurs and preservationists. Actress Evelyn Keyes recalls how, fresh from Georgia, she met Cecil B. DeMille and was soon acting in Gone With The Wind; Blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein tells how he transformed his McCarthy era--experiences into drama with The Front; Steve Allen speaks out on how Hollywood has changed since he first came there in the 1920s; and Jonathan Winters relates how he left a mental institution to come work with Stanley Kramer in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Composers, cinematographers, bartenders, bit-players, publicists, and others add to the portrait of a place where, in days gone by, the idols of a nation walked down the famous boulevards daily, and nearly everybody--in and out of the movie business--knew one another
Print Book, English, 2002
1st Cooper Square Press edition View all formats and editions
Cooper Square Press, New York, 2002
Biography
xvi, 361 pages ; 22 cm
1141771131
pt. 1. A history of Hollywood
pt. 2. The memoirs (Frederica Sagor Maas ; Lothrop Worth ; David Raksin ; Karl Malden ; Lloyd Rigler ; Jules Fox ; Robert Cornthwaite ; Zelda Aronson ; A.C. Lyles ; Tom Jones ; Hank Sievers ; Evelyn Keyes ; Walter Bernstein ;Hal Riddle ; Johnny Grant ; Don Farquhar ; Jerry Maren ; Else Blangstead ; Lois Sidney ; Steve Allen ; Tommy Farrell ; Totty Ames ; Bob Board ; Marie Windsor ; Leatrice Joy Gilbert Fountain ; Ken Paradise ; Jonathan Winters ; Charles Champlin ; Bill Welsh ; Lee Bolman ; Aaron Epstein ; Geraldine Holt ; Roberta Murray ; Pippa Scott ; Burl Smith ; Manny Felix ; Bill Heyward)
pt. 3. A tour of Hollywood