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Zusatztext When Broadway Went To Hollywood will make you want to curl up on the sofa and work your way through a stack of classic movie musicals, starting with the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Informationen zum Autor Ethan Mordden is a recognized authority on the American musical, and the author of such books as On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide, Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theater, Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Beautiful Mornin: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s, and Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. He lives in Manhattan. Klappentext From the earliest talkies to the present, Hollywood has drafted the great Broadway songwriters to create successful musicals, while mistrusting and even abusing them. Here's the book that chronicles what happens when stage geniuses come up against the anti-intellectual producers of Hollywood. Zusammenfassung From the earliest talkies to the present, Hollywood has drafted the great Broadway songwriters to create successful musicals, while mistrusting and even abusing them. Here's the book that chronicles what happens when stage geniuses come up against the anti-intellectual producers of Hollywood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The First Hollywood Musicals 2. De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson 3. Irving Berlin 4. George and Ira Gershwin 5. Rodgers and Hart 6. Jerome Kern 7. Cole Porter 8. Operetta 9. Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser, and Harold Arlen 10. Direct from Broadway 11. Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe 12. The Last Hollywood Musicals Bibliography Index
