Book Look! Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg & the Rise of MGM by Mark A. Vieira
Well, I'm happy to tell you all that this book is another winner from one of my favourite film authors, Mr. Mark A. Vieira. The man's only disappointed me once - please, let's not re-live that experien read more
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood was on my TCM Top Twelve back in May. Here we are at the tail-end of July and I finally watched it and boy is this one of the better documentaries I’ve seen in a while, particularly on TCM. It’s an 80 minute, comprehensive documentary focused entire read more
I’ve read quite a few biographies on classic Hollywood figures, but Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince by Mark Viera is really quite different from all of them. Mainly, I was impressed by how this book does not waste time. By the page five, Irving is meeting Carl Laemmle, by page read more
With his previous photo tributes to Hollywood, Mark Vieira has proven to be expert at combining style with substance. His books have the look of coffee table fluff: oversized, glossy and full of delicious photographs, but his impeccably-researched text has always been capable of standing on its own. read more
