My Life and the Final Days of Hollywood

by Claude Jarman Jr.

Overview

In the 1940s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was at the epicenter of the film world. Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Elizabeth Taylor were only a few of the many stars under contract at the studio. The author, Claude Jarman Jr., takes us from his discovery in a small school in Nashville, Tennessee, through his life among the movie elite. After receiving a special Academy Award for his performance in The Yearling in 1946, he remained at MGM until 1950 when the arrival of television savaged the studio and the star system. He appeared in ten additional films, including playing the son of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in John Ford's epic western Rio Grande and Intruder in the Dust, a story of racial strife in Mississippi based on a novel by William Faulkner. After retiring from films in 1956 at the age of twenty-one, he returned to the movie world in 1965 as the director of the San Francisco International Film Festival which reunited him with famous legends in the film industry.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159032874
Publisher:	Covenant Books
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Discovered by legendary MGM director Clarence Brown in 1945 in a fifth-grade classroom in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of ten, Jarman was whisked away to the movie capital of the world where he would star with Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman in the film The Yearling, based on a Pulitzer Prize–winning book written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. He received an Academy Award for his performance. He remained at MGM for five years before the advent of television signaled the end of the old Hollywood and its star system. Jarman went on to make ten additional films, including playing the son of John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in John Ford’s epic western Rio Grande and the film noir classic Intruder in the Dust, William Faulkner’s story of a lynching in the South. Jarman lives in Marin County north of San Francisco with his wife, Katharine, and their twin daughters Charlotte and Sarah. This is his first book.