Goldwyn A Biography,9781573227230

Goldwyn A Biography

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781573227230
ISBN10: 1573227234
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2025-07-29
Publisher(s): G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Summary

Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era, and in this lavishly-praised biography, the author of Lindbergh and Max Perkins: Editor of Genius offers a life story as rich with drama as anything found on the silver screen...

Author Biography

A. Scott Berg is the author of Wilson and four previous bestselling biographies: Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) winner of the National Book Award; Goldwyn, for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship; Lindbergh, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; and Kate Remembered, his biographical memoir of Katharine Hepburn. Berg lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

PART ONE 5(168)
1 Exodus
5(9)
2 New York
14(13)
3 Synapsis
27(11)
4 Dramatis Personae
38(18)
5 Musical Chairs
56(9)
6 A Name for Himself
65(19)
7 The Business of America
84(20)
8 Elba
104(16)
9 Leading Ladies
120(20)
10 Canaan
140(33)
PART TWO 173(180)
11 Interregnum
173(16)
12 Making Whoopee
189(19)
13 Coming of Age
208(24)
14 "That Little Something Extra"
232(31)
15 "The Goldwyn Touch"
263(47)
16 Annus Mirabilis
310(43)
PART THREE 353(160)
17 "We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again"
353(39)
18 Best Years
392(38)
19 The Plague
430(30)
20 Dinosaurs
460(29)
21 A Slow Fade to Black
489(24)
Acknowledgments 513(4)
Notes and Sources 517(40)
Index 557

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