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S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker - Adventures with Lucy, Red Skelton and Harry Cohn in the Golden Age of Hollywood (Paperback)
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S. Sylvan Simon, Moviemaker - Adventures with Lucy, Red Skelton and Harry Cohn in the Golden Age of Hollywood (Paperback)
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He was Red Skelton's favorite director, and mentored Lucille Ball
in the art of physical comedy. In his 15-year Hollywood career, S.
Sylvan Simon (1910-1951) directed and/or produced more than 40
films, with stars like Lana Turner, Abbott and Costello, and
Wallace Beery. Though he loved to make moviegoers laugh, he
demonstrated his versatility with murder mysteries, war stories,
and musicals. After a decade at MGM, he moved to Columbia, where he
produced his own projects, including the Western melodrama Lust for
Gold, and popular slapstick comedies like The Fuller Brush Girl. As
head of production, reporting to irascible Harry Cohn, he produced
the award-winning Born Yesterday, and was working on From Here to
Eternity when his life ended tragically at the age of 41. This
first-ever account of Simon's life and career draws on interviews
with family and colleagues, genealogical records, archival
materials, and his own annotated scripts to tell the story of a
stage-struck boy from Pittsburgh whose talent and tenacity made him
a Hollywood success. The filmography provides production histories,
critical commentary, and excerpts from published reviews. An
appendix covers books written or edited by Simon, including his
anthologized plays for amateur groups.
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