CIty of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's

A dazzling social and cultural history of Hollywood’s golden age in the decade from World War II to the Korean War

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering. The 1940s became the decade of Hollywood's decline: anticommunist hysteria excommunicated some of its best talent, while a 1948 antitrust con...