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Road to Hollywood - An Only-in-America Story of Presidents, Tycoons, Movie Stars, and Aliens (Paperback)
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Road to Hollywood - An Only-in-America Story of Presidents, Tycoons, Movie Stars, and Aliens (Paperback)
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ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD tells the story of J. Herbert Klein - movie
producer, builder, impresario, and inventor - who started life as
an everyman and ended up working with some of the richest, most
powerful people in the world. We meet Klein at the start of World
War II as a 21-year-old U.S. Air Force private assigned to a new
unit established to defeat the enemy with one of America's greatest
inventions - movies. At the base, Klein meets his commanding
officer - Captain Ronald W. Reagan, film star and future president
of the United States - who puts the young recruit in charge of a
top-secret project. In ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD, Klein is finally at
liberty to reveal details of this operation - and to describe how
Hollywood professionals helped bring about the Allies' victory.
After the war, Klein takes over his family's business - and begins
to build luxury homes for the rich and famous. During the
late-1940s, he builds three houses in Bel Air for Howard Hughes -
renowned aviator, entrepreneur, and movie producer - that the
billionaire turns into love nests for his teenage protegees. In
1955, opportunity knocks when Hughes taps Klein to produce the
star-studded DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL, one of the mogul's final forays
into moviemaking that still creates a sensation on Turner Classic
Movies. Klein offers new insights about Hughes in ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD
- one of the few books about this American icon written from an
insider's perspective. During the 1960s, Klein seizes another
opportunity when he establishes a business partnership with Jon
Hall - leading man of the 1930s and 1940s - that generates patents,
technological innovations, and controversy. Hall believes his new
invention - the anamorphic camera lens - can capture the invisible,
including alien life forms, on film. Klein seeks proof for Hall's
incredible claims - and ROAD TO HOLLYWOOD includes evidence, along
with out-of-this-world, never-before-published photos.
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