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Irving Thalberg:Boy Wonder to Producer Prince by Mark a. Vieira

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  • December 11, 2009 2:44 AM
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This is not, I’m happy to say, a “revisionist” biography of the fabled movie executive, nor is it a goldmine of new information. Yet Mark Vieira has accomplished something quite extraordinary: he amplifies, clarifies, underscores, and illuminates what we already know about Irving Thalberg, to create the most thorough...

Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg And The Rise of M-G-M

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  • November 27, 2009 12:22 AM
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by Mark A. Vieira


Mark Vieira’s name has become synonymous with handsome coffee-table books, but his credentials as a master photographer and photo archivist sometimes obscure his bona fides as a serious film researcher and historian. In his foreword to this beautiful volume he explains his fascination with Irving Thalberg and promises that this picture-and-text compilation is merely a prelude to an exhaustive biography of Hollywood’s legendary “boy wonder.”