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The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father's Twentieth Century

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“First printing. Remainder mark. 2013 Trade Paperback. xiv, 418 pp. Using the life and career of her ...
ISBN
9781594631887
Book Title
Entertainer : Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2013
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Margaret Talbot
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
432 Pages

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Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left his home in small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures with stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Carole Lombard, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver . Ultimately, his career spanned the entire trajectory of the industry. In her captivating, impeccably researched narrative--a charmed combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood. She transports us to an alluring time, simpler but also exciting, and illustrates the changing face of her father's America, all while telling the story of mass entertainment across the first half of the twentieth century.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594631883
ISBN-13
9781594631887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
164765290

Product Key Features

Book Title
Entertainer : Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Author
Margaret Talbot
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/8092 B

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