*What do legends Groucho Marx, Bette Davis, W.C. Fields, and Alfred Hitchcock have in common? They're just 4 of the luminaries mentioned in Hollywood Anecdotes, the definitive oral history of film's Golden Era. This collection gathers some of the best stories ever recorded about the stars, directors, and producers who put the tinsel in Tinseltown.
I. The Beginning
- Penny arcades & nickelodeons
- Silent features
- The Coming of Sound
II. Production
- Moguls
- Studio Life
- Producers
- Directors
- Writers
- Discovery & Casting
- Actors & Actresses
- Child stars
- On the set
- The Crew
- On location
- Editing & Scoring
- Censorship
III. The Playbill
- Drama
- Comedy
- Musicals
- Westerns
- Spectacles
- Horror & Suspense
- Classics & Biopics
- Message Movies
- B Pictures
IV. Hollywood & Its Public
- Social life & publicity
- Sexual images
- Theaters & audiences
V. After the Golden Era
- "Movies are better than ever"
- The sexual & social revolution
- Movies in the age of Reagan