Bosley Crowther

Hollywood Rajah (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

HE DISCOVERED GARBO AND GABLE.FOR NINE YEARS HE WAS THE HIGHEST SALARIED MAN IN THE U.S.HIS LIFE SURPASSED ALL HIS GREATEST FILMS IN LUXURY, NOTORIETY AND TRAGEDY.HE WAS A MAN TO BE FEARED.First published in 1960, Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer is the explosive biography of the head of MGM studio; the fabulous behind-the-scenes story of the most powerful of Hollywood's famed tycoons, it is a story more fantastic than any ever brought to the screen.This is the extravagant life story of Louis B. Mayer, once head of the largest motion picture studio in the world, and the most controversial subject in Hollywood's notorious history-a man who went everywhere, did everything, and knew everyone worth knowing. A man whose tapeworm ego had to be fed by driving activity, ruthless use of power, and adventures with beautiful women. Louis B. Mayer was a power to be feared, a man who deliberately surrounded and protected himself with myths and legends.Now his true story can be told.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Papamoa Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787207899
• Artikelnr.: 48960690

Autorenporträt

Bosley Crowther, acknowledged dean of motion picture critics, is the well-known film critic for the New York Times. He is the author of The Lion's Share, published in 1957, as well as numerous magazine articles on the entertainment world.After his graduation from Princeton in 1928, Mr. Crowther worked as a reporter for the New York Times. In 1940 he was appointed its screen critic, and in 1953 won the first Critics Award of the Screen Directors Guild. Over the past two decades he has distinguished himself as an ardent and consistent champion of greater freedom of the screen: the elimination of statutory censorship and more mature and responsible expression.