Everybody Is a StarToday a second-hand venue for comic-book characters and television comedians, movies once dominated western culture. Gone Hollywood offers a look back to Tinseltown in its Golden Age.
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1930s and 1940s were a legendary time to work in Hollywood. While the world
reeled from war and depression, a few square miles of California offered an imagined
oasis of escape. Too good to be true, it was an illusion that endured for a
long time, buttressed by easy money and a friendly press.
