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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
by
Donald Bogle
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.
Through interviews and the personal recollections...more
Through interviews and the personal recollections...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
January 31st 2006
by One World/Ballantine
(first published 2005)
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This is a very detailed chronology of the back stories and contexts within which Hollywood evolved from the African American perspective. This includes not just the well known actors but also the studio system, night club scene, the film industry, musicians, choreographers, and host of other lesser know key players and roles integral to the development of Hollywood. Also included is a chronology of the connected among mediums such as film, tv, radio, press in developing "Hollywood" as we know it...more
Such a fantastic book. Too bad California is broke now, there's so much glorious history to be rebuilt and reclaimed downtown especially Central Avenue and its glamorous black past. Donald Bogle is a true master of Hollywood history.
Great Book about some of the great African American trail blazers in tv and film and the struggles they endured just because they were black.
Good history of the first 60 years of black Hollywood taking a look at black actors, the geographic boundaries of black Hollywood and its shift over the years, black studios, and how black Hollywood existed in a segregated environment.
Part of why I didn't like this so much isn't really the fault of the author. However, I was hoping for something about black roles in Hollywood movies, instead this book is more about black social lives in Hollywood.
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