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Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century
Riverhead Books
November 2012
On Sale: November 8, 2012
416 pages
ISBN: 1594487065
EAN: 9781594487064
Kindle: B0085DOC08
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Non-Fiction Biography
Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood
actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling
story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing
personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact
the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left
his home in small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling
carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an
actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in
early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures
with stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Carole Lombard, then
an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent
of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie
and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. Ultimately, his career
spanned the entire trajectory of the industry. In her captivating, impeccably researched narrative--a
charmed combination of Hollywood history, social history,
and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and
nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town
America, '30s and '40s Hollywood. She transports us to an
alluring time, simpler but also exciting, and illustrates
the changing face of her father's America, all while telling
the story of mass entertainment across the first half of the
twentieth century.
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