When Broadway Went to Hollywood

by Ethan Mordden

Book Overview

When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart, among many others - were enticed westward by Hollywood studios' promises of national exposure and top dollar success. But what happened when writers native to the business of Broadway ran into the very different business of Hollywood?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199395403
• ISBN13: 9780199395408
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"