Hidden talent
Subtitle: the emergence of Hollywood agents
By: Tom Kemper.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780520257061; 9780520257078
Subjects: Theatrical agents -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.; Theatrical agencies -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.; Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Description: This is a history of Hollywood agents as they rose in the studio system in the late 1920s and early 1930s up through the 1940s, demonstrating the central role they played in the classical Hollywood period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: City of agents; title: Revenge of the agent; title: Small agents; title: Charisma and contracts: Charles Feldman; title: Numbers and niches: boutique agencies; title: The contract industry; title: My man Myron: power and persuasion, packages and percentages; title: What made Myron run?; title: Tall in the saddle: agents in the producer's chair; title: The deal factory; title: Epilogue. The corporate era: changing channels.