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Lion Of Hollywood (Hardcover)

By: Scott Eyman (Author)

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"[M]eticulous and engaging....Eyman's extensive knowledge of old Hollywood, his scrupulous research and his refusal to indict the oft-pilloried Mayer make this biography an often revelatory delight."

"In his wonderfully readable biography...Scott Eyman paints a vivid portrait of of Mayer and the studio he ran with blood and bile rather than an M.B.A., and singular common sense....[T]he story in LION OF HOLLYWOOD is not only that of Louis B. Mayer and the world he made, but also that of this country."

"Eyman marshals thousands of facts, and dozens of opinions, with brio, wit, and authority to create a monument worthy of the greatest studio head of them all."

Publisher's note

Draws on 150 interviews and previously unavailable archival resources to chronicle the Hollywood Golden Age mogul's life from his early years in the Russian shtetls, to his rise to the head of MGM, to his embittered exile, a career during which he promoted a conservative worldview, discovered such stars as Greta Garbo, and founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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The tale of Louis B. Mayer is so very inspiring, so very imprinted with the "American Dream," that it could have come straight out of one of the Hollywood films his mega-studio, MGM, churned out. Mayer was born into an impoverished family in rural Ukraine. His boyhood was spent not in school, but rather outside in New Brunswick, Canada, collecting scrap metal. At the time of his death in 1957, he had spent four decades as the head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, during which time he ruled with an iron fist and an unflinching vision. Author Scott Eyman crafts Mayer's story into LION OF HOLLYWOOD, a biography that reads like a grand epic novel. With a simultaneous eye for minute details and the larger picture, Eyman examines not only the psyche of this complex movie mogul, but also the intertwining threads of the whole Hollywood system--a system that both shaped and reflected the dreams of America as a whole.

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