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Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood Book

In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tellsâ??for the first timeâ??the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the personal recollections of Hollywood luminaries, Bogle pieces together a remarkable history that remains largely obscure to this day. We discover that Black Hollywood was a place distinct from the studio-system-dominated Tinseltownâ??a world unto itself, with unique rules and social hierarchy. It had its own talent scouts and media, its own watering holes, elegant hotels, and fashionable nightspots, and of course its own glamorous and brilliant personalities. Along with famous actors including Bill â??Bojanglesâ? Robinson, Hattie McDaniel (whose home was among Hollywoodâ??s most exquisite), and, later, the stunningly beautiful Lena Horne and the fabulously gifted Sammy Davis, Jr., we meet the likes of heartthrob James Edwards, whose promising career was derailed by whispers of an affair with Lana Turner, and the mysterious Madame Sul-Te-Wan, who shared a close lifelong friendship with pioneering director D. W. Griffith. But Bogle also looks at other members of the black communityâ??from the white starsâ?? black servants, who had their own money and prestige, to gossip columnists, hairstylists, and architectsâ??and at the world that grew up around them along Central Avenue, the Harlem of the West.In the tradition of Hortense Powdermakerâ??s classic Hollywood: The Dream Factory and Neal Gablerâ??s An Empire of Their Own, in Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle re-creates a vanished world that left an indelible mark on Hollywoodâ??and on all of America.From the Hardcover edition.Read More

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  • 0345454197
  • 9780345454195
  • Donald Bogle
  • 31 January 2006
  • One World
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 432
  • Reprint
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