Hooked on Hollywood : discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom

Leonard Maltin Opens His Personal Archive In This Book Where He Takes Readers On A Fascinating Journey Through Golden Era Hollywood. He Landed One-on-one Interviews With Warner Bros. Sexy Pre-code Siren Joan Blondell; Emmy-winning And Oscar-nominated Actor Burgess Meredith; Cecil B. Demille's Right-hand-man Henry Wilcoxon; And Others. Later In His Career, Maltin Sat Down With Men And Women Who Worked Inside The Top Studios During The Heyday Of Movies And Early Television Which Revealed What Life Was Like Under The Titans Of Hollywood. Included Are Key Feature Articles From Maltin's Newsletter Movie Crazy, Which Provides New Perspectives On The Warner Bros. Classics Casablanca And Gold Diggers Of 1933 As Well As Many Other Masterpieces—and Bombs—from Hollywood History. Readers Will Also Look At Hollywood's Overlooked Studio, Rko Radio Pictures, Which Gave Us Such Classics As King Kong And The Many Dance Musicals Of Astaire And Rogers. History Shines Through From The First Page To The Last In This Unique Volume, Which Includes 150 Rare Photos And A Comprehensive Index.