Exiles in Hollywood

by David Wallace

Book Overview

David Wallace is a journalist who has covered celebrities and the movie industry for over 25 years., He lives in Los Angeles.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879103299
• ISBN13: 9780879103293
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Limelight
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Fleeing Europe for Hollywood

The Germans lose their wars because of arrogance, pride, and over confidence. Among their other traits are their desires to get rid of any of the people they don't like. The story of the contributions of the atomic scientists is well known. Einstein and Szilard writing the letter to Roosevelt. Bohr and Fermi constructing the atomic pile in Chicago, and many more. This book, however is on Hollywood. Hollowood got its share of Exiles as well. It consists of chapters on some of the most famous people of the movies from just before World War II until well after: Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock (OK so he wasn't German), Bertolt Brecht, Otto Preminger and many more. One chapter is on Hedy Lamarr, perhaps the most beautiful actress ever. She was also a German Jew and an electrical engineer, holding the patent on the frequency hopping spread spectrum technology used in a great deal of modern communications devices.

If your a little leary, read this review

In the Aug/Sept issue of Moving Pictures Magazine there is a review and summary of the book. It gives great detail and is well written. So if you're not sure you want to read the book you might want to check out the review and summary first.

Fascinating lives...

This book is packed with history and incredible lives. Wallace offers brief yet revealing biographies on dozens of Hollywood personalities - actors, composers, writers, etc. including Alfred Hitchcock, Thomas Mann, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Hedy Lamarr, and more. All 'exiles to Hollywood' for various reasons, they had tremendous impacts on art and life. Did you know Hedy Lamarr patented a frequency hopping device during World War II that is now used for celluar phones? This is such a fun book.