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Review: Hollywood Dreams Made Real: Irving Thalberg and the Rise of MGM, by Mark A. Vieira 
The Tennessean | Fri, Nov 7
Fri, Nov 7
He was the "Boy Wonder" producer whose name never appeared on film credits. But he was responsible for classics including Grand Hotel, Night at the Opera and Freaks, and he made stars out of the likes of Clark Gable, Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
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subscription), IL 6 In 1937, Fitzgerald somehow managed to convince his agent, Harold Ober, to wrangle him a job as a contract writer for the fabled Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios. He had flirted with Hollywood before, but this was his first real job in the Dream ...
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