Hooked on Hollywood, discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom, Leonard Maltin
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- PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History
- Motion picture studios -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
- Maltin, Leonard -- Interviews
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Interviews
- Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History
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Hooked on Hollywood, discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom, Leonard Maltin
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eng
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Hooked on Hollywood
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1031192815
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Leonard Maltin
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discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom
Summary
Early Maltin interviews had literally been stored in his garage for more than 40 years until GoodKnight Books brought them to light for the first time in this volume to entertain readers and inform future film scholars. Teenaged Leonard Maltin landed one-on-ones with Warner Bros. sexy pre-Code siren Joan Blondell; Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor Burgess Meredith; Cecil B. DeMille?s right-hand-man Henry Wilcoxon; Oscar-winning actor Ralph Bellamy; playwright, novelist, and MGM screenwriter Anita Loos; early screen heartthrob George O?Brien; classic Paramount director Mitchell Leisen; and others. Later in his career, Maltin sat down with men and women who worked inside the top studios during the heyday of movies and early television. This second set of in-depth interviews reveals what life was like under Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn, and the other titans of Hollywood. What emerges is a fascinating and at times uproarious homage to Golden Era Hollywood. In addition, key feature articles from Maltin?s newsletter Movie Crazy are published here for the first time, providing new perspectives on the Warner Bros. classics Casablanca and Gold Diggers of 1933 as well as many other masterpieces?and bombs?from Hollywood history. Finally, Maltin looks back at what he considers Hollywood?s “overlooked” studio, RKO Radio Pictures, which gave us such classics as King Kong and the many dance musicals of Astaire and Rogers
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