Merchant of Dreams: Louis B. Mayer, M.G.M., and the Secret Hollywood

by Charles Higham (Author), Charles Higham (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.40

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.52

  The son of a penniless Russian immigrant, Louis B. Mayer became the richest and most powerful film tycoon in Hollywood. As the tyrannical head of MGM, his was the imagination which launched a galaxy of stars, among them Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Judy Garland - and his was the will which controlled their lives. In this biography, Charles Higham weaves an account based on research of the power struggles, scandals, creative successes and personal traumas which permeated Mayer's career. The author also wrote Wallis and Elizabeth and Philip .