Hollywood in the Forties PDF
192 Pages·1968·21.5391 MB·other
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A truly excellent book about Hollywood searching for new
markets as the world began to change in 1939-40. This was - and who can
doubt it? - the beginning of the end, in spite of a slew of great (and
not so great) movies. 'The Maltese Falcon' remains a favourite of mine,
but only partly because of Bogart; 'The Lost Weekend' and - especially -
'Double Indemnity' would also be on my list - but I'll take Ruby Keeler
over Betty Grable any day of the week, and - needless to say - Laurel
and Hardy over, say, Abbott and Costello. I would still argue that
there was a deterioration overall in quality after around 1935. Was
that because of the Code etc? Perhaps. Yet beauties like 'The
Adventures Of Robin Hood', 'Angels With Dirty Faces' and 'Gone With The
Wind' were, admittedly, yet to come.
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