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You Must Remember This: Life And Style In Hollywood's Golden Age (2014)

by Robert J. Wagner(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0670026093 (ISBN13: 9780670026098)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Viking Adult

review 1: I have always been enamored with the Golden Age of Hollywood. The movies, the movie stars, the mystique that surrounded them all is something I adore learning about. So when I spied this book by Robert J. Wagner I didn't hesitate to buy it. And I was not disappointed.Mr. Wagner takes his readers back to the early days of Hollywood - back when there were open fields between homes and back to a time before Beverly Hills. He shares his knowledge of everyone and everything in a laid back manner. The reader can imagine Mr. Wagner sitting in their parlor and telling his stories. He effortlessly mixes personal anecdotes with historical facts and all is interspersed with black and white photos. I was captivated from the first word straight through to the last.The stories are prese... morented in several groupings that make things easy to follow. The insights into the people who made Hollywood what it was and is are witty and informative. His recollections of the glitterati as they moved among themselves, attended each other's soirees, patronized their favorite eateries, as designed their homes makes the legends of the screen human and approachable - although some were quite eccentric.This book kept my interest from the first page to the last and I was sad that it ended where it did for I would have liked to know even more. If you are an aficionado of Hollywood, the movie industry, or Robert Wagner you won't want to miss reading this book.
review 2: I won this book in a good reads giveaway. It's full of interesting stories about how Hollywood changed over the years...the fashion, restaurants, architecture. For the most part it's very entertaining and you feel like the author is writing about dear friends and fond memories, which he is. It is organized into chapters based on subject, for example, the chapter on fashion. The only time it dragged was when it seemed like a paragraph was all about name-dropping but it's probably hard not to come off that way when you're writing about stars! :) Overall I really loved reading this book. It gave a glimpse into a world that not many people get to see and since the author loved his subject it wasn't a scandal-divulging book about Hollywood stars which is so common today. less

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