Featured Title: Hollywood: The Oral History

Hollywood: The Oral History


by Jeanine Basinger & Sam Wasson

PN1993.5 .U65 B326 2022  (available on the New Books Shelf, CCC 130)


Review excerpt (see full review here - Kirkus 7/29/2022)

"For cinephiles, however, this volume is a gold mine of production details, backroom deals, and inside gossip. There are surprising revelations—e.g., Joan Crawford was more beloved than her reputation for derangement would have one believe—and memorably graphic stories, as when Billy Wilder noted that during the filming of Greed (1924), Erich von Stroheim “stopped shooting for three days because there wasn’t enough horseshit in the streets” and forced staff to collect more for him “because that’s what he wanted. Plenty of good horseshit.”

Fun firsthand accounts from 100 years of Hollywood history."

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