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Whatever happened to Hollywood?

Jesse L. Lasky Jr.

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Description:Jesse Lasky, Jr. is the son of one of Hollywood's greatest pioneers, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in an era that was as fabulous (and is now as extinct) as the Roman Empire under Nero. With honesty and gusto and in a wealth of anecdotes, Lasky tells of these halcyon days and the Empire's decline and fall, when the stock market crashed, ushering in the hungry thirties, and his father was wiped out overnight. Lasky records his years of struggle to achieve success as a screenwriter. His boyhood friendships with the greats and near-greats were of no use to him at all, proving the old axiom that you can be forgotten in Hollywood if you take time out to cross the street. Some of his most turbulent experiences came at the hands of the legendary Cecil B. DeMille, his father's old business partner, who was a benevolent tyrant, a monster of egocentricity. Lasky became one one DeMille's top scriptwriters. This book is much more than the history of an era. It is the rich, zestful, fast and funny personal chronicle of one man's journey through an amazing never-never land of make-believe, peopled by con men, suckers, larger-than-life characters, has-beens and never-has-beens. It's a Hollywood script with a cast of thousands--and it's all true!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whatever happened to Hollywood?. To get started finding Whatever happened to Hollywood?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Jesse Lasky, Jr. is the son of one of Hollywood's greatest pioneers, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in an era that was as fabulous (and is now as extinct) as the Roman Empire under Nero. With honesty and gusto and in a wealth of anecdotes, Lasky tells of these halcyon days and the Empire's decline and fall, when the stock market crashed, ushering in the hungry thirties, and his father was wiped out overnight. Lasky records his years of struggle to achieve success as a screenwriter. His boyhood friendships with the greats and near-greats were of no use to him at all, proving the old axiom that you can be forgotten in Hollywood if you take time out to cross the street. Some of his most turbulent experiences came at the hands of the legendary Cecil B. DeMille, his father's old business partner, who was a benevolent tyrant, a monster of egocentricity. Lasky became one one DeMille's top scriptwriters. This book is much more than the history of an era. It is the rich, zestful, fast and funny personal chronicle of one man's journey through an amazing never-never land of make-believe, peopled by con men, suckers, larger-than-life characters, has-beens and never-has-beens. It's a Hollywood script with a cast of thousands--and it's all true!We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Whatever happened to Hollywood?. To get started finding Whatever happened to Hollywood?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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