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A Silent Star Goes Digital

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • September 12, 2012 1:00 AM
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One of the silent screen’s most important stars (and pioneering producers) is being celebrated on an innovative new website. The Mary Pickford Foundation has just launched www.marypickford.org, following a program held in her honor at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Pickford Center on Monday night.

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