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Eighty odd years in Hollywood : memoir of a career in film and television / John Meredyth Lucas ; with a foreword by Cari Beauchamp.

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Van Pelt Library PN1992.4.L75 A3 2004
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lucas, John Meredyth, 1919-2002.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lucas, John Meredyth, 1919-2002.
Lucas, John Meredyth.
Television producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Television producers and directors.
United States.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Television writers--United States--Biography.
Television writers.
Screenwriters--United States--Biography.
Screenwriters.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
vi, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2004]
Summary:
John Meredyth Lucas, son of silent screen star and screenwriter Bess Lucas (Ben-Hur, Don Juan) and step-son of renowned Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy), came of age in Hollywood during the glamorous and decadent 1930s. He went on to an impressive career of his own as a writer-producer-director. His memoir is filled with never-before-told recollections of many Hollywood greats.
Contents:
A Hollywood family
Cast of characters
Home, school and earthshaking events
Life with stepfather
Resisting education and other pursuits
Coming up for air
Hungarian goulash
Off camera
In the wings
Takeoffs and landings
New directions
Test patterns
Foreign accents
Finding focus
Gains and losses
Letters of transit
Fade out, fade in
New horizons
Full circle.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0786418389
OCLC:
54503807

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