Hollywood in its "Golden Age"
There was once a time in Hollywood when the stars were truly “larger than life” both on the screen and off. An era where the greatest dramas, comedies, and tragedies were best performed behind the scenes. It is a time when the studios controlled all of Hollywood. The “Golden Era” is when the faces on screen became icons. This was the “Golden Era” of Hollywood and it is best lived through The MGM Story by John Douglas, Hollywood Hoopla by Robert Sennet, When the Stars went to War by Roy Hopes and Merchant of Dreams by Charles Higham. These four books are the ones that help to provide facts and not tales on how the Hollywood before was really all about. Hollywood itself began with a man named D.W. Griffith. He created a Hollywood masterpiece in 1915 with Hollywood’s first motion picture, “The Birth of a Nation.” This movie completely stunned audiences around the world and assisted in created a completely new world: The world of Motion Pictures. “The Birth of Nation,” as described in Merchant of Dreams stated that the film helped to establish the Motion Pictures Industry as an art form for the world. (Higham, “Merchant of Dreams,” 12) With the emergence of Motion Pictures, five major studios:
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Approximate Word count = 2369
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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