This dazzling story of Hollywood during the decade of its greatest success is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, musicians and composers, producers and directors, racketeers and labor leaders, journalists and politicians in the turbulent decade from World War II to Korea.
City of Nets A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940’s
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Table of Contents
Foreword
I Welcome (I939)
2 Ingatherings (I940)
3 Treachery (I94I)
4 Americanism (I 42)
5 Prejudice (I943)
6 Reunions (I944)
7 Breakdowns (I945)
8 Treachery (I946)
9 On-Americanism (I947)
IO Prejudice ( I948)
II Expulsions (I949)
I2 Farewells (I950)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A page of photographs introduces each chapter
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