Hollywood Royalty

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"Gregory Speck has always been one of the most professional reporters and interviewers dealing with the entertainment industry. Now he has come up with a book which displays his craft to the best advantage and reveals an imaginative flair in creating an atmosphere and a site for a number of his most searching talks with people who have something to say. I learned things about close friends for the first time in Hollywood Royalty. Gregory, on to Book Two!" — James Stewart
"Here we are — several of us talking about this, talking about that, but certainly talking! It's great fun, and I think that people will love" Holly*: wood Royalty." — Katharine Hepburn
"When Gregory Peck first met Gregory Speck I wasn't quite sure what was going on, but I soon found him to be a remarkable journalist and writer, and I believe that his book will soon be recognized as one of the most entertaining and illuminating works ever published about the most important personalities from the studio era." „ —... Tovább

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"Gregory Speck has always been one of the most professional reporters and interviewers dealing with the entertainment industry. Now he has come up with a book which displays his craft to the best advantage and reveals an imaginative flair in creating an atmosphere and a site for a number of his most searching talks with people who have something to say. I learned things about close friends for the first time in Hollywood Royalty. Gregory, on to Book Two!" — James Stewart
"Here we are — several of us talking about this, talking about that, but certainly talking! It's great fun, and I think that people will love" Holly*: wood Royalty." — Katharine Hepburn
"When Gregory Peck first met Gregory Speck I wasn't quite sure what was going on, but I soon found him to be a remarkable journalist and writer, and I believe that his book will soon be recognized as one of the most entertaining and illuminating works ever published about the most important personalities from the studio era." „ — Gregory Peck
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"In Hollywood Royalty you can believe what you read. Gregory Speck has compiled verbatim conversations with many film stars whose comments will amaze and fascinate you, as they did me."— Joan Fontaine
"For everyone and anyone seriously interested in movies, Hollywood Royalty shou\d occupy a convenient and conspicuous place on the book shelf. Cleverly compiled and highly amusing, it clutched my interest and I couldn't let go." — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
"Evenings at San Simeon were always interesting, but none was ever as exciting as the dinner in Hollywood Royalty."
— Maureen O'Sullivan
"Hollywood Royalty is highly entertaining and holds your attention to the last word, and I am personally very pleased to be included in it."
— Rod Steiger
"I found Gregory Speck's Hollywood Royalty most interesting, but I'm sorry that it wasn't an actual party, because I would love to have been there." — Loretta Young
"I hope the food is half as delicious as the conversation in Hollywood Royalty. Bon appétit!" — Lillian Gish

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In Hollywood Royalty Gregory Speck presents the ultimate celebrity soirée, giving a fascinating look into the world of movie stardom through the words of some of the world's most famous screen idols.
The scene is San Simeon, the mountain-top Xanadu created by William Randolph Hearst, and the occasion an imaginary dinner party to which he has invited major stars of the film world. At the head of the table sits James Stewart in his tuxedo, flanked on his right by Katharine Hepburn in a lovely gown and on his left by a bejewelled Bette Davis. Facing him across the crystal- and silver-laden table is Gregory Peck, holding court between Ava Gardner and Audrey Hepburn. Arrayed along the sides are eighteen more Hollywood legends, all of them looking as they did in their prime.
The scene may have been invented, but not a word has been fabricated, journalist Gregory Speck has inventively woven his own interviews with these stars into one extended, spellbinding conversation. Everyone from Lillian Gish, Helen Hayes and James Cagney to Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland confides memories of their peers, like Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Gary Grant, Grace Kelly, Gary Cooper, Vivien Leigh, Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman, Spencer Tracy and Jean Harlow. The book also includes vivid character portraits of the great directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, William Wyler and John Huston, and hilarious anecdotes about the making of cinematic masterpieces such as Gone With the Wind, Casablanca and Moby Dick.
The actual words of the stars in this pantheon are taken from transcripts of the author's interviews with these luminaries. Collectively, they offer an unprecedented perspective on the truth behind the images of these larger-than-life personalities.
Illustrated with stunning photographic portraits, many never before published, Hollywood Royalty may be the most unusual book ever written on the world of film. Vissza