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Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years
- By Leonard Maltin
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- November 28, 2009 12:03 AM
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by Cari Beauchamp
I could exhaust a thesaurus finding words to describe this book: riveting...revelatory...succulent... jaw-dropping are all adjectives that come to mind. Beauchamp has put in years of painstaking research in order to tell, for the first time, the full story of Joseph P. Kennedy’s adventures in Hollywood during the 1920s and beyond. Although her account of his various takeovers and maneuvers is detailed it is never dull. As Betty Lasky, the daughter of movie pioneer Jesse Lasky, so aptly puts it, “Joe Kennedy was the first and only outsider to fleece Hollywood.” The man who later became
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