"You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. "He is from Canada, too." As Foster was soon to discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian.
Stardust and Shadows brings together the stories of 18 Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywood’s formative years. Most of those profiled were known to Foster, and stories they told him about Hollywood’s early days, enhanced by many years of research and interviews with other living performers and directors from the silent movie era, reveal a never-before-seen look at what the movie industry was really like in those early days.
This is Canadian history that has never been told, and many of the startling stories and secrets of Hollywood’s past are revealed here for the first time.
Celebrities profiled:
May Irwin, Al and Charles Christie, Joe and Sam De Grasse, Marie Dressler, Allan Dwan, Florence La Badie, Florence Lawrence, Del Lord, Louis B. Mayer, Sidney Olcott, Jack Pickford, Mary Pickford, Marie Prevost, Mack Sennett, Douglas Shearer, Norma Shearer.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 791.43/092/279494
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781770700987 9781550023480
- LCCN
- PN1998.2
- LCCN Item number
- F67 2000eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (408 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00225095 (OCoLC)666233065 (CaOOCEL)433311
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- MAY IRWIN 12
- AL AND CHARLES CHRISTIE 18
- JOE SAM DE GRASSE 42
- MARIE DRESSLER 64
- ALLAN DWAN 94
- FLORENCE LA BADIE 124
- DEL LORD 168
- LOUIS B. MAYER 186
- SIDNEYOLCOTT 216
- JACK PICKFORD 244
- MARY PICKFORD 266
- MARIE PREVOST 294
- MACK SENNETT 312
- DOUGLAS SHEARER 340
- NORMA SHEARER 362
- EPILOGUE 386
- INDEX 392
