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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
I enjoyed your post about J. Walter Kerrigan, JeffDiego. The film THE COVERED WAGON was presented at AMPAS in 2011 in a film series they had that year showing the 1920's winners of each year's Photoplay Award for Best Picture. The series was called The Summer of Silents. I didn't know about any of this in regard to Kerrigan. The film had excellent live musical accompaniment performed by Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys.
I was thinking about reading the book Tinseltown that you mentioned.
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Hi MartinPal: Thanks for your interesting comments.
I HIGHLY recommend "Tinseltown," a vivid, non-fiction portrait of Hollywood and Los Angeles in the early 1920's. The focus is old Hollywood and the "motion picture industry," already financially rivaling the biggest industries in The U.S., and the parade of scandals at the time, particularly the notorious William Desmond Taylor murder.