Just Tell Me When to Cry: A Memoir

by Richard Fleischer and fleischer-richard

Book Overview

The director of films including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Doctor Doolittle discusses his forty-five years in Hollywood and shares stories about some of Tinseltown's legends. 30,000... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881849448
• ISBN13: 9780881849448
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful and interesting hollywood memoir

This is an entertaining and interesting book for anyone interested in the older hollywood. Great stories about working with stars such as comments on working with Kirk Douglas are quite funny and working for Howard Hughes is also riveting with the crazy excess.

Top-Notch

Fleischer's career as a director and his reputation as a solid journeyman has been overshadowed by some wretched films during his last decade. Nevertheless, Fleischer's firsthand account of his years in and out of Hollywood--Fleischer is a classic-case "survivor story"--fleshes out the personality behind 4 decades of solid entertainment. His tangles with the likes of Howard Hughes and Kirk Douglas are just the tip of the iceberg. This should be standard reading for anyone who gives two shakes about classic Hollywood and for anyone who wants to understand the industry during its more "lost period" in the '60s. Fleischer has hit big on several projects, but it is his humility and depth of understanding of human behavior that characterizes this memoir more than any laundry list of his accomplishments. Of course, keep in mind, for every Amityville 3D, there is a Compulsion, or Boston Strangler, or Barabbas, or 20k Leagues. If anyone brings up Mandingo, hit back with The Narrow Margin. If anyone brings up the more canonized film books, keep this brilliant memoir on hand as a trump card.