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Chargement... My First Time in Hollywoodpar Cari Beauchamp
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a collection of short memoirs from some forty people who were in the film industry when it first started in Hollywood. It ranges from famous actors- Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore, and Gloria Swanson-to producers and directors (lots of them), to writers, and people who furnished the sets. It even includes the infamous Will Hayes, who was brought to Hollywood to institute censorship. These first person pieces are gleaned from various sources- magazine articles, autobiographies, oral history, letters, and lectures. They are all about the very first time each of these people set foot in Hollywood, back when Hollywood was not even really Hollywood. The dates range from 1909 to the 1929, during the time in which Los Angeles and Hollywood exploded and grew exponentially, going from deserted semi-desert to built-up phenomenon. All but one person entered Hollywood via rail. All remember the vast, boring plains they had to travel through. All remember being rather bemused by the lack of buildings in Hollywood. It’s as much a history of the town and the industry as it is memoirs, and I found it fascinating because of that (I grew up in Los Angeles). It includes lots of photographs, too. This was like getting in a time machine and going back to the very early days of Hollywood. Beauchamp has collected recollections from many of Hollywood's early pioneers of their first impression of Hollywood. The mix of stories come from the very well known such as Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Frances Marion, Myrna Loy, Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Cecil B. DeMille, Gloria Swanson, and others to those not as well known such as Virgil Miller, Evelyn Scott, Valerie Belletti, Ralph Winters, and Maurice Leloir. Beauchamp has organized the reminiscences by year and has included many vintage photographs. Heartily recommended to anyone who wants first hand knowledge of Hollywood' early days by those who were there. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Over forty legends of the film business recount their first trip to Hollywood. Actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors-half of them women-recall the long joinery, their initial impressions, their struggle to find work, and the love for making movies that kept them going. Drawn from letters, speeches, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies-and illustrated with over sixty vintage photographs and illustrations-each story is intimate and unique, but all speak to our universal need to follow our passions and be part of a community that feeds the soul. This anthology is edited and annotated by award-winning author and film historian Cari Beauchamp, the only person to twice be named as an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar. Of MY FIRST TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, Academy-Award-winning film preservationist, historian, and author Kevin Brownlow writes: "What every film fan years for-first-hand, eyewitness accounts of a Hollywood none of us can remember and all of us wish we'd known. Completely fascinating." And film critic and historian Leonard Maltin writes: "What a priceless parade of evocative and highly entertaining memories. Once you start reading you won't want to stop." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I had read several of the excerpts before, but the majority were new to me and quite enlightening. I took numerous notes for my research purposes and found out about more material to seek out. Really, though, this is a great book for anyone with an interest in the silent era and how Hollywood BECAME Hollywood. ( )