A Gaudy Spree: The Literary Life of Hollywood in the 1930s When the West Was Fun

by Samuel Marx

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531150089
• ISBN13: 9780531150085
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An insider's look at early Hollywood

Although this book is certainly based on his own experience and memories, Samuel Marx does a good job recreating behind-the-scenes doings during the Golden Age of American cinema, when many of the best films ever made were conceived and brought to fruition. As a California native whose mother grew up in this area during this time and rubbed elbows with a few of the greats, this gets me reacquainted with my own past. And far from being just "Tinseltown", Hollywood employed some of the great writers of that age, who cut their writing teeth on screenplays.