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Take Two
Philip Dunne arrived in Hollywood in 1930, the depth of the Depression--not the best season for job hunting. There was, however, a promising aspect in his timing. The silent era was ending. The young men and women of his generation were the ones who would give Hollywood a voice. Unlike most of the others, Dunne had left behind a privileged background of boarding school, Harvard and Southampton summers.
His first job was as a reader at the old Fox studio on Western Avenue. Though he and Fox soon parted, he returned a few years later through the front door and spent his entire long career at the company that became 20th Century-Fox, writing or co-writing a long list of classic films of Hollywood's golden age, including "Suez," "Stanley and Livingston," "How Green Was My Valley," "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and many others. His career was a part of the Hollywood that shaped America and gave it its memory. "Take Two," an updated edition of Dunne's 1980 memoir, is a rich account of a Hollywood that is now gone, vanished forever, as well as the story of one American liberal in his battles with the windmills of war and peace over the last 60 years.
His first job was as a reader at the old Fox studio on Western Avenue. Though he and Fox soon parted, he returned a few years later through the front door and spent his entire long career at the company that became 20th Century-Fox, writing or co-writing a long list of classic films of Hollywood's golden age, including "Suez," "Stanley and Livingston," "How Green Was My Valley," "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and many others. His career was a part of the Hollywood that shaped America and gave it its memory. "Take Two," an updated edition of Dunne's 1980 memoir, is a rich account of a Hollywood that is now gone, vanished forever, as well as the story of one American liberal in his battles with the windmills of war and peace over the last 60 years.
1 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1992
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April 21, 2012
A highly engaging autobiography by screenwriter and political activist Philip Dunne. Dunne provides colorful accounts of offending P.J. Woodehouse, being called on the carpet by studio mogul Darryl Zanuck, and sharing fish stories with Hemingway. It also covers Dunne's part in the fight against the Hollywood Blacklist and his political activities and offers a closer look at Dunne's film work, including two of my favorites—"How Green Was My Valley" and "the Ghost and Mrs. Muir." Highly recommended for cinephiles.
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