My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood
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In the 1940s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was at the epicenter of the film world. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Elizabeth Taylor were only a few of the many stars under contract at the studio. The author, Claude Jarman Jr., takes us from his discovery in a small school in Nashville, Tennessee, through his life among the movie elite. After receiving a special Academy Award for his performance in The Yearling in 1946, he remained at MGM until 1950 when the arrival of television savaged the studio and the star system. He appeared in ten additional films, including playing the son of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in John Ford's epic western Rio Grande and Intruder in the Dust, a story of racial strife in Mississippi based on a novel by William Faulkner. After retiring from films in 1956 at the age of twenty-one, he returned to the movie world in 1965 as the director of the San Francisco International Film Festival which reunited him with famous legends in the film industry.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well written autobiography from child actor Claude Jarman Jr. His discovery to play the young boy in The Yearling with Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman was most interesting. This great film is his debut. He starred in several other films - many good like Intruder in the Dust and Rio Grande but others weren't so good. It was interesting to read how he ended up working for the San Francisco International Film Festival. I enjoyed the book. It was a good look at how Hollywood use to be.