Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520260481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you want to know about Hollywood s Golden Age, then you must know about Thalberg. --Robert Fulford"The National Post" (01/11/2010)"A fast-paced and well-researched new biography of Thalberg. Was Thalberg art s gift to Hollywood, with his well-bred epics (Romeo and Juliet, Marie Antoinette)? Or was he a mogul playing to the middlebrow? Read this impressively researched study and decide. --Camille McCutcheon, University of South Carolina Upstate"Jrnl Of American Culture" (12/01/2012)"Vieira takes students of movie history deep into the bowels
Big Momma said Interesting history of films. This was an enjoyable read mainly because there is so much information about how films were planned and made. Nostalgia.. "Irving Thalberg: A fine read!" according to J. Billings. I pre-ordered this book several months ago and was not disappointed. Author Mark A.Viera has presented a detailed and insightful profile of Irving Thalberg, creator of such classics as Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth. A major plus for this book is the use of the heretof. The boy wonder ! Christopher Landry The best hook on thalberg !
Known as Hollywood's Boy Wonder,” Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not reissued for thirty years, spurring critics to question his legend and diminish his achievements. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twent