The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood

by Dennis Mcdougal

2020-12-31 12:34:48

The reviewer of theBoston Globesaid point blank: "Over the years, I''ve read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top."As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) un... Read more
The reviewer of theBoston Globesaid point blank: "Over the years, I''ve read hundreds of books on Hollywood and the movie business, and this one is right at the top."

As the elusive, tyrannical head of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) until the 1990s, Lew Wasserman was the most powerful and feared man in show business for more than half a century. 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, and to a new generation of filmmakers beginning with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. For more than four years, Dennis McDougal 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 theNew York Times Book Reviewcalled "thoroughly reported and engrossing" and that theDaily Newscalled, simply, "a bombshell." Less

Book Details

File size9 X 6 X 1.28 in
Print pages600
PublisherHachette Books
Publication date April 20, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780306810503
Dennis McDougal is the author of eleven books, including Dylan: The Biography, The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA, and the Hidden History of Hollywood, and the true-crime books Angel of Darkness and M...

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