Van Dyke and The Mythical City Hollywood Cannon Signed

Dealing with the colorful career of the famous motion picture directorial genius, the late W. S. Van Dyke II, VAN DYKE AND THE MYTHICAL CITY, HOLLYWOOD is not a biography, but an engrossing narrative revealing "behind scenes" passages in Van Dyke's life.

Across the pages parades a steady march of heretofore untold anecdotes involving such familiar names as those of ,Jack Dempsey, Ruth Roland, Buck Jones, Col. Tim McCoy, Trader Horn, Norma Shearer, Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Greta Garbo, Tyrone Power, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell and a veritable Who's Who in Hollywood. "

From the time he gave up the stage to accept the role of a Babylonian King in D. W. Griffith's first screen spectacle, "Intolerance," in 1915, Van Dyke lived and breathed motion pictures, He was among the first to successfully produce adventure pictures with authentic backgrounds such historic epics as "Trader Horn," "Eskimo" and "White Shadows of the South Seas." Indeed, many of Van Dyke's adventures in filming these pictures were as thrilling as the screen stories.