New PDF release: You Must Remember This: Life and Style in Hollywood's Golden

By Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman

The mythical actor and bestselling writer of items of My center deals a nostalgic examine Hollywood's golden age

For thousands of motion picture fanatics, no period within the historical past of Hollywood is extra cherished than the interval from the Thirties throughout the Fifties, the golden age of the studio method. not just did it produce a few of the maximum motion pictures of the yank cinema, however it was once then that Hollywood itself grew to become firmly demonstrated because the nation's final image of glamour and magnificence, its stars virtually godlike figures whose remarkable lives have been chronicled in numerous positive aspects in magzazines like Photoplay and smooth Screen.

While those beneficial properties have been a regular a part of the paintings of studio exposure departments, they instructed keen readers little approximately what existence was once rather like for those celebrities after they stepped out of the general public eye. not anyone is best certified to inform that tale than Robert Wagner, whose personal profession has spanned greater than 5 a long time and whose manhattan instances bestseller, items of My center, used to be probably the most winning Hollywood memoirs in recent times. you need to take into accout this is often Wagner's intimate ode to a bygone time, certainly one of marvelous houses, sumptuous resorts, opulent night-clubs and eating places, and unforgettable events that have been all a part of the Hollywood social scene at its peak.

From a cocktail party at Clifton Webb's at which Judy Garland sang Gershwin on the piano to golfing video games with Fred Astaire, from Jimmy Cagney's humble farmhouse in Coldwater Canyon to the outstanding seashore mansion equipped via William Randolph Hearst for Marion Davies, from recognized eating places just like the Brown Derby and Romanoff's to nightspots just like the Trocadero and the Mocambo, Wagner stocks his affectionate thoughts and anec¬dotes in regards to the locations and personalities that experience all turn into a part of Hollywood legend.

As poignant because it is revealing, you want to keep in mind this is often Wagner's account of Hollywood as he observed it, faraway from the lighting fixtures and cameras and gossip columns—and a young farewell to the folk of a legendary position lengthy seeing that remodeled, and to a golden age lengthy on account that handed.

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