The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century by Talbot, Margaret
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century by Talbot, Margaret

The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century

Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot...
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Author: Margaret Talbot
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The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century by Talbot, Margaret

The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century

$66.26
The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century by Talbot, Margaret

The Entertainer: Movies, Magic, and My Father's Twentieth Century

$66.26
Author: Margaret Talbot
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot's career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left his home in small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician's assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures with stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Carole Lombard, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and Leave It to Beaver. Ultimately, his career spanned the entire trajectory of the industry.

In her captivating, impeccably researched narrative--a charmed combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir--Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of '10s and '20s small-town America, '30s and '40s Hollywood. She transports us to an alluring time, simpler but also exciting, and illustrates the changing face of her father's America, all while telling the story of mass entertainment across the first half of the twentieth century.



Author: Margaret Talbot
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 11/05/2013
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781594631887
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/15/2013 pg. 40

About the Author
Margaret Talbot has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003. Previously, she was a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and an editor at The New Republic. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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