City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's by Otto Friedrich

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

Otto Friedrich

718 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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A dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood's golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean WarIn 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood...

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