num_pages: 608
description: The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg Frank Capra Bette Davis Meryl Streep Harold Lloyd and nearly four hundred others assembled from the American Film Institute's treasure trove of interviews reveals a fresh history of the American movie industry from its beginnings to today. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews involving four hundred voices from the industry The Oral History  lets a reader listen in on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera -- Bette Davis Meryl Streep Tom Hanks Harold Lloyd -- to the biggest behind it -- Frank Capra Steven Spielberg Alfred Hitchcock Jordan Peele as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on musicians costumers art directors cinematographers writers sound men editors make-up artists and even script timers messengers and publicists. The result is like a conversation among the gods and goddesses of lively funny insightful historically accurate and for the first time authentically honest in its portrait of Hollywood. It's the insider's story. Legendary film scholar Jeanine Basinger and New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson both acclaimed storytellers in their own right have undertaken the monumental task of digesting these tens of thousands of hours of talk and weaving it into a definitive portrait of workaday Hollywood.
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title: Hollywood: The Oral History
publisher: Harper