The Last Mogul
Subtitle: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780306810503
Subjects: Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors; Film & Video - Direction & Production; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: The man who created Lew Wasserman's beloved MCA-who, in fact, created Lew Wasserman-was born in 1896 in South Bend.
Description: "Lew Wasserman was the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of American (MCA) until the 1990s - and for more than a half century the most powerful and feared man in show business. His career spanned the entire history of the movies, from the silent era to the present, and he was guru to Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, and Jimmy Stewart, as well as to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.

For more than four years, Dennis McDougal interviewed interviewed over 350 people who knew the man with the giant dark horn-rimmed glasses - colleagues, relatives, rivals - and drew on tens of thousands of pages of documents to produce this extraordinary and first-ever portrait of a legend and his times, a book that the New York Daily News called "a bombshell.""--BOOK JACKET.