Hooked on Hollywood : discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom

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Hooked on Hollywood : discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom

Title remainder

discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom

Statement of responsibility

Leonard Maltin

Creator

• Maltin, Leonard

Author

• Maltin, Leonard

Interviewer

• Maltin, Leonard

Subject

• Cinéma -- États-Unis
• History
• Interviews
• Interviews
• Interviews
• Motion picture actors and actresses
• Motion picture actors and actresses -- Interviews
• Motion picture industry
• Motion picture industry -- California | Los Angeles -- History
• Motion picture producers and directors
• California -- Los Angeles
• Motion pictures
• Motion pictures -- United States
• Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma -- Entretiens
• United States
• interviews
• Motion picture producers and directors -- Interviews
• Cinéma -- Industrie -- Californie | Los Angeles -- Histoire

Genre

• Interviews
• interviews
• History
• Entretiens

Language

eng

Summary

"In Hooked on Hollywood, Maltin opens up his personal archive to take readers on a fascinating journey through film history. He first interviewed greats of Hollywood as a precocious teenager in 1960s New York City. Early Maltin interviews had literally been stored in his garage for more than 40 years until GoodKnight Books brought them to light for the first time in this volume to entertain readers and inform future film scholars. In addition, key feature articles from Maltin's newsletter Movie Crazy are published here for the first time, providing new perspectives on the Warner Bros. classics Casablanca and Gold Diggers of 1933 as well as many other masterpieces--and bombs--from Hollywood history. Finally, Maltin looks back at what he considers Hollywood's "overlooked" studio, RKO Radio Pictures, which gave us such classics as King Kong and the many dance musicals of Astaire and Rogers. In Leonard's unique and witty style, he looks at dozens of obscure RKO features from the 1930s, including saucy pre-Codes, musicals, comedies, and mysteries. Leonard Maltin's love of movies and vast knowledge about their history shines through from the first page to the last in this unique volume, which includes 150 rare photos and a comprehensive index."--

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries