Hooked on Hollywood
Subtitle: discoveries from a lifetime of film fandom
By: Leonard Maltin
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780998376394
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion picture industry; Interviews; Motion picture actors and actresses; History
Description: "In Hooked on Hollywood, Maltin opens up his personal archive to take readers on a fascinating journey through film history. He first interviewed greats of Hollywood as a precocious teenager in 1960s New York City. Early Maltin interviews had literally been stored in his garage for more than 40 years until GoodKnight Books brought them to light for the first time in this volume to entertain readers and inform future film scholars. In addition, key feature articles from Maltin's newsletter Movie Crazy are published here for the first time, providing new perspectives on the Warner Bros. classics Casablanca and Gold Diggers of 1933 as well as many other masterpieces--and bombs--from Hollywood history. Finally, Maltin looks back at what he considers Hollywood's "overlooked" studio, RKO Radio Pictures, which gave us such classics as King Kong and the many dance musicals of Astaire and Rogers. In Leonard's unique and witty style, he looks at dozens of obscure RKO features from the 1930s, including saucy pre-Codes, musicals, comedies, and mysteries. Leonard Maltin's love of movies and vast knowledge about their history shines through from the first page to the last in this unique volume, which includes 150 rare photos and a comprehensive index."--
Notes: Includes index.

"Portions of this book originally appeared in Film Fan Monthly and Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy newsletter" -- Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Hollywood featurettes. All the music of Casablanca ; Blues in the night ; Where did the music go? ; Remembering forgotten men ; Grade B; title: but choice ; Act three: television ; Here we go again; title: Early interviews. Introduction: Seeing stars ; Anita Loos ; Burgess Meredith ; Robert Youngson ; Joan Blondell ; Mitchell Leisen ; Henry Wilcoxon ; George O'Brien ; Ralph Bellamy ; Madge Evans; title: Later in-depth interviews. John Cromwell ; Peggy Webber ; Arthur Gardner ; Marc Connelly ; Paul Wurtzel ; Dick Jones ; Leslie H. Martinson; title: The forgotten studio. RKO revisited.