Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince
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Main Author: Vieira, Mark A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: CA University of California Press 2009
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Hollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow. Known as Hollywood's "Boy Wonder," Thalberg created classics such as Ben-Hur, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Freaks, Mutiny on the Bounty, and The Good Earth, but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not re
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (526 p.)
ISBN:0520945115
9780520945111

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