Eighty odd years in Hollywood
Subtitle: memoir of a career in film and television
By: John Meredyth Lucas ; with a foreword by Cari Beauchamp.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Lucas, John Meredyth, 1919-2002.; Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.; Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.; Television writers -- United States -- Biography.; Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: 80 odd years in Hollywood
Description: "John Meredyth Lucas, son of silent screen star and screenwriter Bess Meredyth (Ben-Hur, The Sea Beast, When a Man Loves, Don Juan) and stepson of renowned Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Life with Father), came of age in Hollywood during the 1930s. Lucas went on to an impressive career of his own as a writer-producer-director. He made films with Hal Wallis, Ross Hunter, Walt Disney, and others, and he wrote, produced, and directed such classic television series as Mannix, The Fugitive and Star Trek." "Completed shortly before his death in 2002, Lucas' memoir is filled with never-before-told recollections of many Hollywood greats and features previously unpublished photographs. With Lucas, we go behind the scenes, onto the studio lots and into the parties with family friends John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn and Jack Warner, to name just a few. It's a boy's-eye-view of Hollywood in a time of glamour, decadence, and the golden years of filmmaking."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A Hollywood family; title: Cast of characters; title: Home, school and earthshaking events; title: Life with stepfather; title: Resisting education and other pursuits; title: Coming up for air; title: Hungarian goulash; title: Off camera; title: In the wings; title: Takeoffs and landings; title: New directions; title: Test patterns; title: Foreign accents; title: Finding focus; title: Gains and losses; title: Letters of transit; title: Fade out, fade in; title: New horizons; title: Full circle.