Description: Merchant of Dreams Louis B Mayer - MGM and the Secret Hollywood by Charles Higham - copyright 1993 This hardcover book issued with dustjacket is very good condition - Dustjacket is in very good condition with no wear in protective cover - book has no torn or missing pages nor writing in the book ..... Louis B Mayer looms larger that few others over the Golden Age of Hollywood, though he is little understood as his own man. He battled with John Gilbert. He was fond of Katharine Hepburn. He drove Judy Garland to what eventually would become her ruin, and then tried to save her when it was too late. Mayer certainly could be cruel, vindictive, petty, lecherous, and tyrannical, but at the same time he was hopelessly sentimental, emotional, prudish, family-oriented, unlucky in love, and had conflicted relationships with his equally strong-minded daughters. As a businessman, he ruled like a father. No smut, No tawdriness. Family fare. That was his motto. He tried, often unsuccessfully, to live it himself. And much less successfully to do so for his staff. MGM employees were his children and he covered up their exploits from homosexuality (illegal at the time and even more of a career killer than it is now), to assaults, to allegedly even murder. Mayer was successful. He was a showman and a purveyor of glamour. He wanted the best and hired the best. Though he was himself deeply right wing he hired David Ogden Stewart, Dalton Trumbo, George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn, all big-time liberals. He was smart enough to let artists do what they did best as long as it was clean. Also listed Diana Ross SIGNED, Liberace SIGNED, James Arness, Raymond Burr, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Jimmy Stewart SIGNED, Sonja Henie SIGNED, Fay Wray, Shirley Temple SIGNED & other Hollywood Bios & Collectables!!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered
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Book Title: Merchant of Dreams Louis B Mayer
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Edition: First Edition
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Subject: Biography & Autobiography
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Biography
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Charles Higham
Features: 1st Edition
Genre: Biographies & True Stories
Topic: Entertainment, Film, Movies, Performing Arts, Television, Movie & Television
Subjects: Biographies & True Stories
