Barefoot on barbed wire: an autobiography of a forty-year Hollywood balancing act
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Lanham, Md. [u.a.]
Scarecrow Press
2001
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| Physical Description: | XIX, 275 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0810839415 |
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An Autobiography of a Forty-Year
Hollywood Balancing Act
Jimmy Starr
Filmmakers
The Scarecrow Press, Inc
Lanham, Maryland, and London
Contents
Editors Foreword
Prologue
Acknowledgments
1 Why I Wrote This Book
2 A Brush with the Big Time
3 I Crash a Studio
4 When Lady Luck Smiles
5 The Valentino Friendship Begins
6 Out of the Frying Pan And into the Fire
7 Ten Cents a Joke
8 My Blackface Imitation Didn t Worry Jolson
9 The Mathis Mystery
10 The First Big Studio Loan-Out
11 My Biggest Hollywood Gesture
12 I Am Supposed to Stop a Murder
13 Almost a Monkey Wrench to Romance
14 My Great Night
15 Bighearted Boss
16 Big-time Bootlegger, or Booze and Blondes
17 Phony Pooch Publicity
18 The Reel Racket
19 Setting the Social Scene
xiii
xvii
xix
IX
x Contents
20 A Famed Movie Elephant Must Die 58
21 TheWAMPAS 60
22 Sid, the Wild Joker 67
23 Hollywood s First Cheapskate Press Agent 74
24 Breaking into the Big Times 78
25 New, Young Press Agent Makes Good 80
26 A Goal Is Achieved: I Am at Mack Sennett s 83
27 A Sudden Bit of Stark Tragedy 90
28 The Man Who Kept His Promise 91
29 The Great Talking Dog Hoax 95
30 A Chinaman s Chance 100
31 He Screwed Himself to Death 103
32 Bogart Fliwered by Ford 105
33 A Lotta Lovin Lottie 107
34 The Fastest Scripter in the West! 109
35 Cooking Up Hollywood s Biggest Social Blaze 113
36 The Truth about Gable 118
37 How Hollywood History Is Made 120
38 Quick Change Artist 123
39 Just about as Fay as Fay 130
40 A Rare Day in Hollywood History 133
41 Stage Struck? Never! Just Scared to Death 137
42 Just a Night in Hollywood 141
43 Marshall Neilan 145
44 The Whiz-Bang Kid 146
45 A City Revisited with Memories 149
46 Hepburn and Rogers 156
47 When the Ham Starts to Sizzle 161
48 The Lay of the Land 167
49 What Did He Have to Tell Me? 172
Contents xi
50 Battle of the Big Ballyhoos 175
51 Hometown Incident 183
52 It s Such a Small World 185
53 As the Shannon Flows, So Bubbles a Mystery 197
54 The Executive Who Stole Toilet Paper 201
55 The Spoiled Brat 203
56 Fame Does Funny Things 207
57 The Cruze From Rags to Riches and Back Again 209
58 The Ham What I Am 212
59 The Lady Doesn t Lay and Tell 215
60 A Selected Few Are Europe Bound 217
61 The Last Supper—Hollywood Style 219
62 Death of a Delightful Drunk 225
63 Flynn, the Fabulous 227
64 The Hollywood Praise Agents 231
65 My Last Big Assignment 233
66 Gone with the Gail 239
67 Tallulah s Tangent Tongue 242
68 Fame Has No Rating on a Slab 245
69 The Colossal (?) Cinema Columnists 248
70 Reflective Recollections 252
71 And So There Will Be a Happy Ending 258
Index 264
About the Author 275
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