Exiles in Hollywood
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(Limelight). 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 Alfred Hitchcock Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Thomas Mann The Screenwriter Salka Viertel And Her Controversial Relationship With Greta Garbo The Deeply Conflicted Actor Charles Laughton And Many More. The Result Is A Rich Page-Turning Look At An Era Its Triumphs And Tragedies Its Gossip And Hidden Facts And Its Colorful Personalities.
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