Over forty legends of the film business recount their First trip to Hollywood.
Once you start reading you won\'t want to stop..
And film critic and historian Leonard Maltin writes: What a priceless parade of evocative and highly entertaining memories.
Completely fascinating.
Of MY First Time IN HOLLYWOOD, Academy-Award-winning film preservationist, historian, and author Kevin Brownlow writes: What every film fan years for-first-hand, eyewitness accounts of a Hollywood none of us can remember and all of us wish we\'d known.
This anthology is edited and annotated by award-winning author and film historian Cari Beauchamp, the only person to twice be named as an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar.
Drawn from letters, speeches, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies-and illustrated with over sixty vintage photographs and illustrations-each story is intimate and unique, but all speak to our universal need to follow our passions and be part of a community that feeds the soul.
Actors, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and editors-half of them women-recall the long joinery, their initial impressions, their struggle to find work, and the love for making movies that kept them going.
Over forty legends of the film business recount their First trip to Hollywood
