The Grove Book of Hollywood

by Silvester, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780802116758
• ISBN10: 0802116752
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Pgw

Summary

Decade by decade, this richly entertaining compendium brings the world of Hollywood -- its dazzle and its dementia, its glamour and its seediness -- to life through the eyes of the people who were there. John Huston, P. G. Wodehouse, Cecil B. DeMille, Sergei Eisentein, Lillian Ross, Joan Didion, William Goldman and others join movie moguls, ambitious starlets, embittered screenwriters, and bemused outsiders to detail Hollywood's emergence from a dusty ranch on the outskirts of L.A. in the early years of the twentieth century to the rise of the studio system in the '30s, the blacklist and hard times in the '60s, Hollywood's resurrection in the '70s and '80s, and the era of the blockbuster in the '90s.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	ix
1910s	1	(42)
1920s	43	(82)
1930s	125	(142)
1940s	267	(134)
1950s	401	(68)
1960s	469	(52)
1970s	521	(54)
1980s	575	(34)
1990s	609	(55)
Index	664