City of Nets
Subtitle: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
By: Otto Friedrich.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Social life and customs.; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.
Description: This dazzling story of Hollywood during the 1940s is a social and cultural history of the movie capital's golden age. Its cast includes actors, writers, musicians and composers, producers and directors, racketeers and labor leaders, journalists and politicians in the turbulent decade from World War II to Korea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-479) and index.
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1986.