The Great Movie Stars - The golden years (Art Ebook).pdf

Crown | 1970 | Pdf | Eng | 576 pages | 90 MB

It's true: this is the first comprehensive book on the rise and fall of the great movie stars. Of course some fans already know all there is to know about John Wayne, and most people have heard something of the Garbo mythology, but how many remember that at one time Paramount considered Frances Farmer too important to play a lead opposite Gary Cooper? That, according to Gracie Fields's Hollywood Studio, she was once being paid "the highest salary ever paid to a human being"? That when David O. Selznick first announced the leads for Gone With the Wind they were Ronald Colman and Tallulah Bankhead ?