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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814500603321

Autore

Bernstein Matthew

Titolo

Walter Wanger, Hollywood independent / / Matthew Bernstein ; foreword by Robert Wise

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2000

ISBN

0-8166-9142-8

Edizione

[1st University of Minnesota ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (535 p.)

Collana

Commerce and mass culture series

Disciplina

791.43/0232/092

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Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994. With new foreword.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Personal history -- pt. 2. The executive apprentice -- pt. 3. Going "independent" -- pt. 4. Bitter teas and reckless moments, 1945-1952 -- pt. 5. Another comeback : three films -- pt. 6. Hollywood merry-go-round.

Sommario/riassunto

A portrait of the trailblazing film producer whose career spanned five decades."Bernstein packs an astonishing amount of solid film history into his lucid chronicle of Wanger's whirlwind corporate liaisons. . . . A fully realized, A-line biopic of a fascinating life in the movies."-Tom Doherty, Film Quarterly