Movieland: Hollywood and the Great American Dream Culture

by Jerome Charyn

Book Overview

In Movieland, Jerome Charyn mingles his own life as a moviegoer with the history, romance, and sadness of Hollywood. He meets Paul Newman, Viveca Lindfors, and Mae Clark, the actress who was the original bride of Frankenstein; explores Cinecitta, Mussolini's own Hollywood on the Tiber; recalls his own life as Otto Preminger's house writer (and jester) during Preminger's decline; reinvents the lost years and lost stars of the silent era --Irving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814715508
• ISBN13: 9780814715505
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"