Movie Anecdotes

by Peter Hay

Book Overview

Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors. Always looking for an angle, always, scheming, always the scene of clashing egos, the movie industry is where they place you under contract instead of observation--and if you don't have anything nice to say, write it down. "In 1940, I had my choice between Hitler and Hollywood," French director Ren Clair recalled, "and I preferred Hollywood--just a little."
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045947
• ISBN13: 9780195045949
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"