Growing Up in Hollywood

By Robert Parrish

Book Overview

Autobiography of the child actor and film director. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316692565
• ISBN13: 9780316692564
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Don't waste your money

I love reading movie books about the Golden Era of Hollywood. This book was incredibly boring. Usually when I start reading a book, I am hooked by the end of the first chapter. This book was not scintillating or even remotely interesting. I stopped reading it at chapter 11. Just couldn't get into it. Even its presentation was lackluster. In one chapter Parrish mentioned receiving a credit card to rent a car for work. There were no credit cards in existence in the 1930s. The first credit card issued was in 1950, which was a Diner's Club card. Later in 1958, the Visa credit card was established. This book is not exactly factually correct. A real disappointment. I also order his sequel to this book. I hope it will be better than this one. Disappointed.

A True Hollywood Testament

If there is any person who has grown up in the classic Hollywood era, it is none other than Robert Parrish. Taking on the challenges and heart-ships of paving the way in film, Parrish proves himself to have a genuine knowledge of the industry. He takes his own experiences and expresses them in ways that keep you rolling through the chapters. A true testimony of a time when film was something more than box office and demographics.