Behind the Screen
Lives & Memoirs

Behind the Screen

Samuel Goldwyn

2026

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He sold gloves until he saw his first moving picture, and then he sold everything else. Goldwyn writes from inside the young industry as it climbed from nickelodeon to studio, on stars, stories, money and the manufacture of fame, with the certainty of a man who bet on the whole business early and turned out to be right.

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21 chapters

  1. 1IN WHICH IS FILMED THE BIRTH OF A NOTION15m
  2. 2RECORDS THE SUCCESS OF AN IDEA13m
  3. 3MARY PICKFORD30m
  4. 4FASCINATING FANNY WARD15m
  5. 5MARGUERITE CLARK MISSES FIRE AND EDNA GOODRICH DOESN’T IGNITE AT ALL16m
  6. 6THE MISCHIEVOUSNESS OF MAE MURRAY11m
  7. 7GERALDINE THE GREAT17m
  8. 8THE DISCOVERY OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN16m
  9. 9STARS, STARS, STARS!19m
  10. 10THE MAGIC OF MARY GARDEN15m
  11. 11MAXINE ELLIOTT AND PAULINE FREDERICK17m
  12. 12A MARRIAGE OF TWO MINDS9m
  13. 13THE REAL CHAPLIN16m
  14. 14JACKIE COOGAN AND “THE KID”15m
  15. 15DOUG AND MARY10m
  16. 16RODOLPH VALENTINO13m
  17. 17ROMANTIC TRUE STORIES OF SOME SCREEN FAVORITES26m
  18. 18POLA NEGRI10m
  19. 19THE TWO TALMADGES15m
  20. 20GOOD OLD WILL ROGERS8m
  21. 21SOME AUTHORS WHO HAVE TRAVELLED TO HOLLYWOOD29m
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