Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince - Softcover

Budd Schulberg has written his greatest book. -- Frank Capra Although Moving Pictures reads like a novel, I found myself saying, 'Yes, this is exactly how it was. . . . Now I know it from the inside!' -- Elia Kazan A fascinating and significant contribution to American social history. -- Arthur Schlesinger Jr. In Moving Pictures, Budd Schulberg relates the saga he was born to write, and he does it with brilliance, knowledge, feeling, wit, and some of the old love. Four cheers. -- Garson Kanin For readers interested in Hollywood history, this Budd's for you. -- Michael Rogers * Library Journal * A fascinating account of a fascinating part of our recent history, a book full of memorable anecdotes. -- Irwin Shaw Budd Schulberg is uniquely qualified to tell about Hollywood. . . . Moving Pictures is fascinating. -- John Huston Filled with characters who ring absolutely true. -- Melvyn Douglas Unquestionably the authentic history of the creators of the motion picture-a fascinating book. -- Myrna Loy Moving Pictures entranced me.... The book is full of delicious vingettes... -- Scott Eyman * Palm Beach Post *

Raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul, Budd Schulberg went on to win fame as a distinguished novelist, short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and boxing historian. Moving Pictures is his fascinating remembrance of growing up amidst the glamour, swank, courage, triumphs, defeats, cabals, and double-crosses of an industry in the making. His utterly candid account includes unsparing portraits of outsized characters in all their power, venality, charm, pettiness, and vindictiveness. As a book on the early days of the movies in Hollywood, this one is hard to beat. Abundantly illustrated with black-and-white photographs.