Movieland Hollywood

by Jerome Charyn

Book Overview

In Movieland, Jerome Charyn mingles his own life as a moviegoer with the history, romance, and sadness of Hollywood. He meets Paul Newman, Viveca Lindfors, and Mae Clark, the actress who was the original bride of Frankenstein; explores Cinecitta, Mussolini's own Hollywood on the Tiber; recalls his own life as Otto Preminger's house writer (and jester) during Preminger's decline; reinvents the lost years and lost stars of the silent era --Irving Thalberg,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399134239
• ISBN13: 9780399134234
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.