MGM: Saving the Best for Last

"More Stars Than There Are in Heaven!" proclaimed MGM for over three decades---from a decade before the beginning of THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD (in May 1935) and until the day it decidedly died (in November 1956). Judy Garland,Tracy-&-Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly (and many, many others) all worked there, though not always happily and not always profitably. Their personal lives have been exhumed again and again and their...
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"More Stars Than There Are in Heaven!" proclaimed MGM for over three decades---from a decade before the beginning of THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD (in May 1935) and until the day it decidedly died (in November 1956). Judy Garland,Tracy-&-Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Clark Gable, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly (and many, many others) all worked there, though not always happily and not always profitably. Their personal lives have been exhumed again and again and their professional careers excavated endlessly---but for the first time their FINANCIAL careers are examined in detail with sometimes surprising results! THE SCHARY YEARS (1948-1956) were the end of The Golden Age, six decades ago, though the more than 200 movies that were made then live on (and on, and on...) even today. Why were the hits HITS? What made the flops CATASTROPHES? This detailed examination will answer (almost) all your questions and ignite your imagination with new ones as you relive MGM's glorious, delirious, declining "last days": THE SCHARY YEARS!