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Author Kemper, Tom.

Title Hidden talent : the emergence of Hollywood agents / Tom Kemper.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 293 pages) : illustrations
Summary This is a history of Hollywood agents as they rose in the studio system in the late 1920s and early 1930s up through the 1940s, demonstrating the central role they played in the classical Hollywood period.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents City of agents : the power of place -- Revenge of the agent : Myron Selznick -- A percentage of power : small agents -- Charisma and contracts : Charles Feldman -- Numbers and niches : boutique agencies -- Sealing the deal : the contract industry -- My man Myron : power and persuasion -- What made Myron run? : the whole equation -- Tall in the saddle : agents in the producer's chair -- The deal factory : new fortunes in the forties -- Epilogue: The corporate era : changing channels.
Note Print version record.
Subject Theatrical agents -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Theatrical agencies -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Business Aspects.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General.
Motion picture industry. (OCoLC)fst01027150
Theatrical agencies. (OCoLC)fst01149413
Theatrical agents. (OCoLC)fst01432107
California -- Los Angeles. (OCoLC)fst01204540
Filmagent. (DE-588)4806974-7
Filmagent.
Los Angeles- Hollywood.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1925-1949
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kemper, Tom. Hidden talent. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520257061 (DLC) 2008054360 (OCoLC)289070805
ISBN 9780520944749 (electronic bk.)
0520944747 (electronic bk.)
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