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John Houseman

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Rumanian-born, British-bred John Houseman went on from his legendary 1930s collaborations with Welles to an independent career as film producer and theater director. This second memoir covers his year-by-year labors up to 1955. After WWII, it was back to L.A.-- for over ten years of producing movies: The Blue Dahlia, with Raymond Chandler; Max Ophuls' Letter from an Unknown Woman (a disaster then, a classic now); The Bad and the Beautiful; Julius Caesar (Brando as Antony); and Lust for Life. He also found time to exchange a loose lifestyle for marriage and kids at age 50. With acerbic close-ups of Hollywood in the studios' last heyday, it is show-biz autobiography at its most literate and leisurely--shrewd and thorough and drily amusing.

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Publisher
New York : Simon and Schuster
Year
1979
ISBN-13
9780671243289
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
Hollywood film productionTheater and film career1950s American cinema

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