Exiles in Hollywood

Name: Exiles in Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780879103293

ISBN-10: 0879103299

ISBN-13: 9780879103293

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Wallace

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Fleeing Nazi persecution, half of Europe's creative talents, including screen legend Greta Garbo and composer Igor Stravinsky, were, in Arnold Schoenberg's words, "driven into paradise," settling in Los Angeles. It was the greatest flight of European cultural and intellectual talent in history, and for a time made Los Angeles a cultural capital. Their presence, enabling the evolution of film noir, also changed American movies forever. In Exiles in Hollywood, David Wallace, author of the national bestseller Lost Hollywood and whom columnist Liz Smith has called "the maestro of entertainment history," tells their dramatic stories. His profiles of refugees include filmmaker Billy Wilder,…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Film noir goes mainstream : the genius of Billy Wilder



The catalyst : Salka Viertel



The monocled aristocrat : Fritz Lang



The "muse to genius" : Alma Mahler



The master of mystery : Alfred Hitchcock



The odd man out : Bertolt Brecht



The pacifists : Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood



The dictatorial innovator : Otto Preminger



The writers : Thomas Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger



The conductors : Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer



Russia in Hollywood : Igor Stravinsky



The reclusive violin genius : Jascha Heifetz



Film music : Sergei Rachmaninoff and Erich Korngold



Hollywood's legendary odd couple : Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester



The architects : Richard Neutra and Rudolf Schindler



The theatre's genius : Max Reinhardt



The modernist musicians : Arnold Schoenberg, Eric Zeisl, Ernst Krenek, and Ernst Toch



The French arrive : Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, and Max Ophuls



Porn star, Hollywood legend, and inventor : the unlikely career of Hedy Lamarr



The Casablanca connection : Peter Lorre, Conrad Veidt, and Paul Henreid