As Coppola accepted the Thalberg bust, which has only been presented 38 times since the award was established in 1937, he imitated his former bosses Jack Warner and Samuel Goldwyn and told stories about his family and love of filmmaking ...
It's more probable that, in the early MGM films, Irving Thalberg was trying to make them more like what audiences expected from a "comedy;" a romance, heroes and villains, and musical interludes.* The Paramount pictures weren't big hits ...
Irving Thalberg. Boy Wonder To Producer Prince, by Mark A. Vieira. I love Hollywood lore, so I can't wait to dive into this thick tome. I know quite a lot about Thalberg already, particularly that he was instrumental in creating ...