| Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue: Endgame, January 20, 1957 -- Part I -- Chapter One: Enter Boris, 1891-1914 -- Chapter Two: Broken Chords, 1914-22 -- Chapter Three: The Golden Land, 1922-25 -- Chapter Four: The Entertainer, 1925-33 -- Chapter Five: Cover Stories, 1933-34 -- Chapter Six: Paradise and its Discontents, 1934-35 -- Chapter Seven: Gateway to Hollywood, 1935-36 -- Chapter Eight: A Double Life, 1936-38 -- Chapter Nine: Declaring Independence, 1938-42 -- Chapter Ten: Turnabout, 1942-43 -- Chapter Eleven: Chord and Discord, 1943-44 |
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Chapter Twelve: Spook's Ball, 1944-45 -- Chapter Thirteen: Getting to Carnegie Hall, 1945-47 -- Part II -- Chapter Fourteen: Double or Nothing, 1947 -- Chapter Fifteen: Boris Loves Money! 1947-48 -- Chapter Sixteen: Pontifex Maximus, 1948-49 -- Chapter Seventeen: Inside the Temple, 1949 -- Chapter Eighteen: Believing in Tears, 1949-50 -- Chapter Nineteen: My Own FBI, 1950-51 -- Chapter Twenty: Atomic Bonds, 1951-52 -- Chapter Twenty-One: In Chains, 1952-54 -- Chapter Twenty-Two: The Agent in Black, 1954-55 -- Chapter Twenty-Three: A Cooked Goose, 1955-57 |
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Chapter Twenty-Four: Above the Fold, 1957-63 -- Notes on Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, I'lm producer and Russian double agent Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and '40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War'Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros's assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the iron curtain. The high-level intel he provided the KGB included military secrets and compromising information on prominent Americans: his friends. But in 1947, Morros flipped. At the height of the McCarthy era, he played a leading role in a deadly tale. Jonathan Gill's Hollywood Double Agent is an extraordinary story about Russian spies at the heart of American culture and politics, and one man caught in the middle of the Cold War. |
| Subject |
Morros, Boris, 1891-1963.
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Espionage, Soviet -- United States.
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Cold War.
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Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Morros, Boris, 1891-1963. (OCoLC)fst01472017
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Espionage, Soviet. (OCoLC)fst00915419
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Motion picture industry. (OCoLC)fst01027150
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California -- Los Angeles.
(OCoLC)fst01204540
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Cold War (1945-1989) (OCoLC)fst01754978
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gill, Jonathan. Hollywood Double Agent : The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy. New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., ©2020 |
| ISBN |
9781683358152 (electronic book) |
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1683358155 (electronic book) |
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