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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.
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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