How to Succeed in Hollywood without Really Trying: P.S.—You Can’t!
About this audiobook
Writer-Director Melville Shavelson survived five wars: WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and Hollywood. In this often funny and always readable memoir, he recalls the heyday of the studio system and what it was like to work with such powerful forces as Kirk Douglas, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, the State of Israel, the family of President Eisenhower, and Paramount Pictures.
About the author
Melville Shavelson (1917–2007) was one of the most successful filmmakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age and thereafter, with twenty-one directing credits and fifty-five writing credits (including The Five Pennies, Yours, Mine, and Ours, Cast a Giant Shadow, and Ike: The War Years). A master of comedy (he was one of the writers who established Bob Hope and Danny Thomas), he was twice President of the Writers Guild of America and, living till the age of ninety, a major voice in preserving Hollywood history.
Nat Segaloff covered the motion picture business for the Boston Herald, CBS Radio, and Group W. He has also been a studio publicist, college teacher, playwright, and author. In 1996 he formed the multimedia production company Alien Voices® with actors Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie and produced five bestselling, fully dramatized audio plays.
