Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures, watches rushes in his screening room.
This afternoon, I had the good fortune to talk with Mark Lynch for his NPR show Inquiry from WICN radio, on my new book Death of the Moguls. In the 1930s and 40s the great Hollywood studios were ruled by a small group of men who had complete control over which films got made and what stars got to appear in those films. These moguls rule was absolute and together they had a feeling of “absolute immortality.” They were the real gods of Hollywood. But after they died, the era of the classic Hollywood studio also came to an end and the studios lost their individual identities. Here, I get a chance to talk about the book with Mark Lynch; we ran out of time just as we were getting started! Hope to do it again.
Click here, or on the image above, to hear the entire half hour show.
Tags: Death of the Moguls, Harry Cohn, Inquiry, Interviews, Mark Lynch, NPR, WICN
