Silvester - The Grove Book of Hollywood

Praise for The Grove Book of Hollywood:

Opening up Christopher Silvesters anthology The Grove Book of Hollywood is like discovering a hitherto unknown used-book store. You anticipate not just an afternoon browse now, but many visits in the future. Time and again, I marveled at the resourcefulness of this volume, digging up things I half recalled and finding others Id never heard of. If you know people who take movies too seriously, they must be given this anthology. As for the rest of us, already helpless, delighted victims of the illness, this is our book.

Bookforum

Undoubtedly the best book Ive ever read about Hollywood Silvester has created a rich tapestry to immortalize the mad, bad, wild and extravagant ways of the Babylon of the film industry.

Irish Times

Exceptional Traces the history of the film industry from 1905 to the late twentieth century. The stories of disaster-prone directors and power-driven actors are irresistible.

Seattle Times

Highly entertaining and informative This kaleidoscope of memories, reflections, paybacks and honors is both a great read and a good popular introduction to Hollywood history.

Publishers Weekly

A rich anthology of Cinema City.

Orlando Sentinel

A delightful collection, full of surprises.

The Mail on Sunday (London)

Often gritty and funny, this is definitely an insiders account of the business and the people who perpetuate it. But we voyeurs can enjoy it as well.

San Gabriel Valley News

The joys of this book are endless.... A masterly, magnificent anthology.

Literary Review (London)

THE GROVE BOOK OF

EDITED BY
CHRISTOPHER SILVESTER

To Carolyn, my guiding light With love

This selection copyright 1998 by Christopher Silvester
Introduction and notes copyright 1998 by Christopher Silvester

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review. Any members of educational institutions wishing to photocopy part or all of the work for classroom use, or publishers who would like to obtain permission to include the work in an anthology, should send their inquiries to Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003.

First published by Viking UK in 1998

The acknowledgments on pp. vii-viii constitute
an extension of this copyright page.

Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders.
The publishers will be glad to make good in future editions
any errors or omissions brought to their attention.

Printed in the United States of America

FIRST GROVE PRESS PAPERBACK EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Penguin book of Hollywood.

The Grove book of Hollywood. / edited by Christopher Silvester.

p. cm.

Originally published: The Penguin book of Hollywood. London,

England : Viking, 1998.

Includes index.

eBook ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9549-4

1. Motion picturesCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory. 2. Motion
picturesCaliforniaLos AngelesBiography. I. Silvester, Christopher.

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Foremost among those I wish to thank is Charles Elton, for making many helpful suggestions and for allowing me to borrow several titles from his library. Christopher Hawtree, Richard Ingrams and Francis Wheen were, as always, willing to point me in the direction of something interesting, while other friends who lent me books were Stephen Hermer and Barry Martin.

Otherwise, I wish to thank the following libraries and their staffs: the British Library; the British Newspaper Library, Colindale; the London Library; and the British Film Institute Library.

I should also like to thank Janine di Giovanni for her boundless hospitality.

The editors and publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reprint copyright material:

Alan Brodie Representation for permission to reprint material from The Noel Coward Diaries by Noel Coward (1929 by the Estate of Noel Coward); Laura Morris for permission to reprint material from Going Mad in Hollywood (1996 by David Sherwin); British Film Institute for permission to reprint material from Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein (1995); Carol Publishing Group for permission to reprint material from Flying Through Hollywood by the Seat of My Pants by Samuel Z. Arkoff (1992 by Samuel Z. Arkoff); Curtis Brown Ltd, London, on behalf of the Estate of Christopher Isherwood, for permission to reprint material from Los Angeles by Christopher Isherwood ( the Estate of Christopher Isherwood); Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc. for permission to reprint material from Silent Star by Colleen Moore (1968 by Colleen Moore); Paul S. Eriksson, Publisher, for permission to reprint material from Bulls, Bells, Bicycles & Actors (1965); M. Evans & Co. for permission to reprint material from Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo 1942-1962 edited by Helen Manfull (1970 by Dalton Trumbo); David Higham Associates for permission to reprint material from The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1962, the Estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald); Harold Ober Associates for permission to reprint material from Dance to the Piper by Agnes De Mille (1951); Hodder Headline plc for permission to reprint material from Streets Ahead by Keith Waterhouse (1995); Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books Inc., the publishing subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, for permission to reprint material from The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans (1994 by Robert Evans); Little, Brown and Company for permission to reprint material from People in a Diary by S. N. Behrman (1972 by S. N. Behrman); Macmillan Publishers Ltd for permission to reprint material from With Nails by Richard E. Grant (1994); Gottlieb Schiff Fabricant & Styernklar for permission to reprint material from The Lonely Life: An Autobiography by Bette Davis (1962); Scott Meredith Literary Agency for permission to reprint material from Billy Wilder in Hollywood by Maurice Zolotow (1977); Peters, Fraser and Dunlop Group Ltd for permission to reprint material from Midnight on the Desert by J. B. Priestley (1937 by the Estate of J. B. Priestley), and from the diary of Evelyn Waugh, 6, 7 & 13 February, 7 April 1947 (1947 by the Estate of Evelyn Waugh); Punch Ltd for permission to reprint Days in the Dream Factory (first published in Punch, 12 May 1954) and Visitor in a Dream Factory (first published in Punch, 19 May 1954); St Martins Press, Inc., for permission to reprint material from Ladies Man by Paul Henreid and Julies Fast (1984 by Paul Henreid and Julies Fast); Tessa Sayle Agency for permission to reprint material from Growing Up in Hollywood by Robert Parrish (1976); Alan Shapiro for permission to reprint his article It Came from Development Hell, first published in Premiere, July 1988 (1988 by Alan Shapiro); Sussex Publishers Inc. for permission to reprint Theres No Business Like Show Business by Celia Brady (first published in