Volume 21, Number 17 · October 31, 1974
Include Me Out
By Michael Wood
Hollywood
by Garson Kanin
Viking, 393 pp., $8.95
Wide-Eyed in Babylon
by Ray Milland
Morrow, 264 pp., $7.95
Each Man in His Time
by Raoul Walsh
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 385 pp., $10.00
Whatever Happened to Hollywood?
by Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Funk and Wagnalls, 324 pp., $8.95 (to be published in February)
Final Cut
by Paul Sylbert
Seabury, 243 pp., $7.95
Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema
by Richard Corliss
Overlook, 398 pp., $15.00
'Every movie star,' Garson Kanin writes, 'is a leading character in a fairy tale. Once upon a time (July 16, 1911, in Independence, Missouri), a little girl was born. She was christened Virginia Katherine McMath….' And she grew up, in the course of the fairy tale, to be Ginger Rogers. Once upon a time, in Wales, on January 3, 1907, a boy called Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones was born, and he, after an unruly childhood, a spell in the Horse Guards, and one or two small parts in British films, became Ray Milland.
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