Lost Hollywood Book

The movie business may have been born on the East Coast, but it created Hollywood in its own image. Lost Hollywood is a rich trip back into a vanished place and time--the twenty-five chapters in this book use lost structures and customs to tell the history of the movie business in the last century.From Marion Davies' extraordinary Santa Monica playpen Ocean House, known as "Xanadu by the Sea," to America's first luxe housing development, Whitley Heights, and its now-iconic Mediterranean architecture, Lost Hollywood brings back to vivid life some of the most extraordinary West Coast building projects.Author David Wallace has also unearthed new and fascinating details on classic Hollywood institutions and the men and women behind them: from the Hollywood Canteen, to the Garden of Allah, the Brown Derby, the Coconut Grove and the legendary Pickfair.The details and fresh facts unearthed in Lost Hollywood will entertain and inform even the most knowledgeable film history buff.AUTHORBIO: David Wallace is a journalist who has covered celebrities and the movie industry for over twenty years.This is his first book.He lives in Los Angeles.Read More