[PDF] CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
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| #261740 in Books | Otto Friedrich | 2014-02-11 | 2014-02-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.18 x6.00l,1.55 | File Name: 006232604X | 736 pages | CIty of Nets A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940 s
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| a compendium|By Douglas McKeown|Nothing new here, unless you've never read about Hollywood. The author himself says as much upfront. He also reminds us that most of the famous anecdotes come in many different versions, because these showbiz types are tall-tale-tellers, after all. But then if he relates two of them, it is hard to know which is the more likely. In other word|.com |The late Otto Friedrich enlivened the pages of many newspapers and magazines with his vigorous prose. His journalistic ability to convey complex material in a vivid, accessible manner is evident in City of Nets, a mordant portrait of Hollywood in
In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust consent decree ended many of the business practices that had made the studio system so profit...
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