Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer

by Bosley Crowther

Overview

HE DISCOVERED GARBO AND GABLE.
FOR NINE YEARS HE WAS THE HIGHEST SALARIED MAN IN THE U.S.
HIS LIFE SURPASSED ALL HIS GREATEST FILMS IN LUXURY, NOTORIETY AND TRAGEDY.
HE WAS A MAN TO BE FEARED.
First published in 1960, Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer is the explosive biography of the head of MGM studio; the fabulous behind-the-scenes story of the most powerful of Hollywood's famed tycoons, it is a story more fantastic than any ever brought to the screen.
This is the extravagant life story of Louis B. Mayer, once head of the largest motion picture studio in the world, and the most controversial subject in Hollywood's notorious history—a man who went everywhere, did everything, and knew everyone worth knowing. A man whose tapeworm ego had to be fed by driving activity, ruthless use of power, and adventures with beautiful women. Louis B. Mayer was a power to be feared, a man who deliberately surrounded and protected himself with myths and legends.
Now his true story can be told.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787207899
Publisher:	Papamoa Press
Publication date:	07/31/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Bosley Crowther (July 13, 1905 - March 7, 1981) was an American journalist, author, and a film critic for The New York Times for 27 years, where his work helped shape the careers of many actors, directors and screenwriters. Crowther was an advocate of foreign-language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini.
Born Francis Bosley Crowther, Jr. in 1905 in Lutherville, Maryland, the son of Eliza (Leisenring) and Francis Bosley Crowther, he moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina as a child. There, he published a neighborhood newspaper, The Evening Star. His family then moved to Washington, D.C., and Crowther graduated from Western High School in 1922. After two years of prep school in Orange, Virginia at Woodberry Forest School, he entered Princeton University, where he majored in history. For his writing performance, Crowther was offered a job as the first cub reporter for The New York Times at a salary of $30 a week, which he eventually accepted. In 1933 he was asked by Brooks Atkinson to join the drama department and spent five years covering the theater scene in New York.
He met Florence Marks, a fellow employee, during his early years at the Times, and the couple wed on January 20, 1933. They had three sons, Bosley Crowther III, an attorney, John Crowther, a writer and artist, and Jefferson, a banker and the father of Welles Remy Crowther.
Bosley Crowther was a prolific writer of film essays as a critic for The New York Times from 1940-1967 and thereafter worked as an executive consultant at Columbia Pictures. He is also the author of The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire (1957), the first book documenting the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
He died of heart failure in 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York, aged 75.

Born Francis Bosley Crowther, Jr. in 1905 in Lutherville, Maryland, the son of Eliza (Leisenring) and Francis Bosley Crowther, he moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina as a child. There, he published a neighborhood newspaper, The Evening Star. His family then moved to Washington, D.C., and Crowther graduated from Western High School in 1922. After two years of prep school in Orange, Virginia at Woodberry Forest School, he entered Princeton University, where he majored in history. For his writing performance, Crowther was offered a job as the first cub reporter for The New York Times at a salary of $30 a week, which he eventually accepted. In 1933 he was asked by Brooks Atkinson to join the drama department and spent five years covering the theater scene in New York.
He met Florence Marks, a fellow employee, during his early years at the Times, and the couple wed on January 20, 1933. They had three sons, Bosley Crowther III, an attorney, John Crowther, a writer and artist, and Jefferson, a banker and the father of Welles Remy Crowther.
Bosley Crowther was a prolific writer of film essays as a critic for The New York Times from 1940-1967 and thereafter worked as an executive consultant at Columbia Pictures. He is also the author of The Lion’s Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire (1957), the first book documenting the history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
He died of heart failure in 1981 in Mount Kisco, New York, aged 75.