I was fortunate to be a part of the Golden Years of Hollywood albeit the tail end of it. MGM was the largest and most lucrative film studio in the world. This giant of a studio made one movie a week in its heyday. With stars who were stars. And story lines that you could follow without the aid of computers and digital innovations. Louis B. Mayer had just been dethroned and a new group of "filmmakers" emerged. That's when I joined MGM. This book follows my career from this point until my very last film entitled "DANGEROUS LIAISONS" and retired having received an Academy Award nomination for the best picture of 1988. This book, hopefully, will reflect the "happenings" that occurs during the making of a film - some sad - some fascinating but definitely extremely humorous. This is raw Hollywood as it was Hank Moomjean

Bring in the Peacocks begins with the fading of Hollywood's Golden Age to the author's Academy Award nomination for Dangerous Liaisons. The book tells anecdotes of the famous or near-famous personalities of Hollywood. You will learn more of Elizabeth Taylor, Burt Reynolds, Joan Fontaine, Debbie Reynolds and hundreds of other stars. It's a feel-good book which, hopefully, will make you laugh.

It is pre-Revolution France. The Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte de Valmot (John Malkovich) are decadent members of the Paris aristocracy. The Marquise challenges the Vicomte to conquer young Cecile (Uma Thurman), the wife-to-be of an old friend. However, the perverse Vicomte prefers to work upon the seduction of Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer), a married and moral young aquaintance. The sexual and social repercussions of the seduction has disastrous effects. The film won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.

"Hank was privy to it all and tells all with wit and insight." - - Eva Marie Saint Read the one-of-a-kind autobiography of the producer of Dangerous Liaisons, Hooper, The Great Gatsby, and assistant director of Kismet, Jailhouse Rock, Raintree County, Gigi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and many more! Hank Moonjean was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up in Troy, New York. In 1946 Hank, together with his parents, moved to Los Angeles. In 1952 he graduated from the University of Southern California receiving a degree in cinema. During the Korean Conflict he served with the 82nd Paratroopers Battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in their Military Intelligence Unit. In 1954 Hank began working at MGM Studios in Culver City, California culminating a 40-year career with an Oscar nomination for producing Dangerous Liaisons.