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City of Dreams (Hardcover)

By: Bernard F. Dick (Author)

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"City Of Dreams: The Making And Remaking Of Universal Pictures" traces the history of Universal, the only studio from Hollywood's golden age still in the business of making movies, from its beginnings under Laemmle to its corporate owners of the last decade, Seagram's and MCA. Operating under the premise that a film operation should be a self-contained unit, Carl Laemmel bought a 230 acre chicken ranch in the San Fernando Valley and transformed it into a Hollywood showplace complete with a post office, police and fire departments, a blacksmith shop, bungalows, a zoo, a nursery, a greenhouse, a hospital, and some of the best studios ever used for the making of celluloid magic. "City Of Dreams" is the detailed story of the original ownership being handed down through the decades to include Decca, MCA, Matushita, and Seagram. No Hollywood history is complete without the inclusion of Bernard Dick's "City Of Dreams" on the reading list.

"Though not thorough enough to be definitive, this concise account of Universal's transformation from the silent era to the present is a useful resource for anyone interested in James Whale, Deanna Durbin, or Howard the Duck."

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Traces the history of Universal Studios from its development in the early 1900s by Carl Laemmle through its continued success today.

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A concise history of Universal Pictures, from the silent era to the present, by the noted scholar of communications and professor at Farleigh Dickinson University.

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