Sabotage
Gavin Millar, 13 September 1990
Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles
by Frank Brady.
Hodder, 655 pp., £18.95, January 1990,0 340 51389 6 Show More
by Frank Brady.
Hodder, 655 pp., £18.95, January 1990,
If this was happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
by Barbara Leaming.
Weidenfeld, 312 pp., £14.95, September 1989,0 297 79630 5 Show More
by Barbara Leaming.
Weidenfeld, 312 pp., £14.95, September 1989,
Ava’s Men: The Private Life of Ava Gardner
by Jane Ellen Wayne.
Robson, 268 pp., £14.95, November 1989,0 86051 636 9 Show More
by Jane Ellen Wayne.
Robson, 268 pp., £14.95, November 1989,
Goldwyn: A Biography
by Scott Berg.
Hamish Hamilton, 579 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 241 12832 3 Show More
by Scott Berg.
Hamish Hamilton, 579 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
The Genius of the System: Hollywood Film-Making in the Studio Era
by Thomas Schatz.
Simon and Schuster, 514 pp., £16.95, September 1989,0 671 69708 0 Show More
by Thomas Schatz.
Simon and Schuster, 514 pp., £16.95, September 1989,
“... is one of Scott Berg’s occasional plunges into the jacuzzi of archaism, so let us say of Thomas Schatz’s book that it is encomiastic about the studio system to which Goldwyn was such an eccentric exception, since he used his own money and made only two or three pictures a year. It judges the system to have been at its apogee in the Thirties ... ”
