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The fixers : Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM publicity machine
- Title
- The fixers : Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM publicity machine / E.J. Fleming.
- Author
- Fleming, E. J., 1954-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 315 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Through research and interviews with contemporaries, this is story of Eddie Mannix and Howard Strickling. The dual biography describes how a mob-related New Jersey laborer and the quiet son of a grocer became the most powerful men at the biggest studio in the world"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-298) and index.
- Contents
- The movies find Hollywood -- Building the Emerald City -- Omens, and the twenties end roaring -- The 1930s: the golden age of trouble -- The 1940s: war inside and out -- The 1950s: relics and the last big secret -- Postscript: fade out.
- Call Number
- MWER 05-834
- ISBN
- 0786420278 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004025792
- OCLC
- 56905500
- Author
- Fleming, E. J., 1954-
- Title
- The fixers : Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM publicity machine / E.J. Fleming.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-298) and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWER 05-834