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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg : the whole equation / Kenneth Turan.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.2 .T873 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turan, Kenneth, author.
- Series:
- Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
- Jewish lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayer, Louis B. (Louis Burt), 1885-1957.
- Mayer, Louis B.
- Thalberg, Irving G., 1899-1936.
- Thalberg, Irving G.
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion pictures--Production and direction--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Louis B. Mayer & Irving Thalberg
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "One was a tough junkman's son, the other a cosseted mama's boy, but they dreamed the same mighty dream: that the right movies could make a profit and change both the culture and individual lives. Sharing a religion and an evangelical zeal for film, Louis B. Mayer (1884-1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899-1936) were unlikely partners in one of the most significant collaborations in movie history. Over the course of their decade-long relationship, as key players at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and major players in Hollywood, they joined forces in redefining and mastering the template for the film industry. Mayer, older by more than a dozen years, was the business-minded face of the studio, while Thalberg worked closely with the creative corps, especially writers; together they rarely set a foot wrong. And while Mayer initially viewed Thalberg as the son he never had, the two would go from passionate friends to near enemies before Thalberg's shocking death at the age of thirty-seven. In the first joint biography of the two men in fifty years, film critic Kenneth Turan traces their fraught relationship while examining the complicated history of Jewish identity in Hollywood." -- Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Mayer before Thalberg
- Thalberg before Mayer
- Early days and Norma
- One out of many
- Unfinished business
- The right stuff
- The women
- Rivals
- The two and only
- Garbo
- Sound makes some noise
- Threats and opportunities
- New beginnings
- To each his own
- Fissures
- Alone together
- Endgame
- Saying goodbye
- Mayer being Mayer
- Old and in the way
- Afterlife.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300254495
- 0300254490
- OCLC:
- 1449672538
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