Research Catalog
The entertainer : movies, magic, and my father's twentieth century / Margaret Talbot.
- Title
- The entertainer : movies, magic, and my father's twentieth century / Margaret Talbot.
- Author
- Talbot, Margaret, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Riverhead Books, 2012.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN2287.T139 T35 2012 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- xiv, 418 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Using the life and career of her father, writer Margaret Talbot tells the story of the rise of popular culture through a personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. In her impeccably researched narrative--a combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood.--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-418).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Learning to cry -- The hypnotist's boy -- Footlights on the prairie -- Hooray for Hollywood -- Gangsters, grifters, and gold diggers -- Man about town -- Empty bottles -- Unionizing actors, uniting fans -- Broadway and B movies -- From Ed Wood to Ozzie and Harriet.
- ISBN
- 9781594487064 (alk. paper)
- 1594487065 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012026309
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library