Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince (Hardcover)

Preface

Part One The Merger
1 The Boy Wonder
2 A Funny Little Man
3 Three Shaky Little Stars

Part Two The Perfection of Silence
4 A Studio Style
5 Wicked Stepchildren
6 A Business of Personalities
7 Top of the Heap
8 “More Stars Than There Are
in Heaven”

Part Three The Talkies
9 The Golden Silents
10 All-Talking, All-Singing,
All Profitable
11 The Production Code

Part Four “His Brain Is the Camera”
12 Visiting Royalty
13 New Morals for Old
14 The Right to Be Wrong
15 Hollywood Icarus

Part Five The Thalberg Unit
16 The New Setup
17 Honor with Credit
18 “To Hell with Art!”

Part Six The Crown Prince of Hollywood
19 “Napoleon Thalberg”
20 A Feverish Energy
21 A Labor of Love
22 The Gods Are Jealous

Part Seven The Legacy
23 Unfinished Projects
24 Marie Antoinette

Epilogue

Appendix: The M-G-M Films
of Irving Thalberg
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Illustrations