Volume 36, Number 8 · May 18, 1989
Goldwynism
By John Gregory Dunne
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
Goldwyn: A Biography
by A. Scott Berg
knopf, 579 pp., $24.95
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
by Neal Gabler
Crown, 502 pp., $24.95
The Search for Sam Goldwyn: A Biography
by Carol Easton
Morrow/Quill, 304 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The Hollywood Studios: House Style in the Golden Age of the Movies
by Ethan Mordden
Knopf, 387 pp., $24.95
Thinking Tuna Fish, Talking Death: Essays on the Pornography of Power
by Robert Scheer
Hill and Wang, 389 pp., $19.95
Inventing the Dream: California Through the Progressive Era
by Kevin Starr
Oxford University Press, 380 pp., $10.95 (paper)
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
by Otto Friedrich
Harper and Row/Perennial Library, 495 pp., $10.95 (paper)
John Ford
by Andrew Sinclair
Dial Press (New York, 1979, out of print)
The Deer Park
by Norman Mailer
Putnam/Perigee, 372 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Hollywood Glamor Portraits: 145 Photos of Stars, 1926-1949
edited by John Kobal
Dover, 144 pp., $7.95 (paper)
The Image Makers: Sixty Years of Hollywood Glamour
text by Paul Trent, designed by Richard Lawton
McGraw-Hill (New York, 1972, out of print)
In the midst of an argument to some other point, Harry Cohn, the much hated tycoon responsible for the success and ultimate respectability of Columbia Pictures, once bet that his own hated brother Jack did not know and could not recite the Lord's Prayer. Equally full of bluster, Jack Cohn accepted the wager, and with a certain trepidation, began, 'Now I lay me down to sleep….' Harry Cohn glowered and shoved his money across the table. 'That's enough,' he said. 'I didn't think you knew it.'
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