- Hardcover: 608 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743204816
- ISBN-13: 978-0743204811
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.8 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,743,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lion of Hollywood is the definitive biography of Louis B. Mayer, the chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - MGM - the biggest and most successful film studio of Hollywood's Golden Age. An immigrant from tsarist Russia, Mayer began in the film business as an exhibitor but soon migrated to where the action and the power were - Hollywood. Through sheer force of energy and foresight, he turned his own modest studio into MGM, where he became the most powerful man in Hollywood, bending the film business to his will. He made great films, including the fabulous MGM musicals, and he made great stars: Garbo, Gable, Garland, and dozens of others. Despite his power and money, Mayer suffered some significant losses. As he grew older, his politics became increasingly reactionary, and he found himself politically isolated within Hollywood's small conservative community. Lion of Hollywood is a three-dimensional biography of a figure often caricatured and vilified as the paragon of the studio system. Film historian Scott Eyman interviewed more than 150 people and researched some previously unavailable archives to write this major new biography of a man who defined an industry and an era.
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Format:Hardcover
I read this book on holiday and finished it in only three days. It is packed full of fascinating detail not only on Mayer himself but also on MGM and Hollywood in its golden age. My only slight criticism is that sometimes it does get a little bogged down in anecdotes that slow up the story - something that was the not in the case with Eyman's superb biography of Mary Pickford. Still, a very enjoyable book though. Highly recommended.
Format:Hardcover
Superb biography, one of the best cinema biography's I've ever read. Eyman details Mayers early life, entry into the film industry and rise to the top in full and interesting detail. Into this he also weaves the history of Hollywood and MGM as a studio, including Mayer's sometimes fractious relationship with Irving Thalberg. A must for anyone wanting to know about this giant of film history.
Format:Hardcover
Typical of Eyman this comes accross as slightly hagiogarphical. He does refer to Mayer's dark side, but never delves that far. Instead we get a picture of a man who loved people more then power. Is that the real man?
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