Mordden, Ethan - When Broadway Went to Hollywood

From the earliest talkies to the present, Hollywood has drafted the great Broadway songwriters to create successful musicals, while mistrusting and even abusing them. Here's the book that chronicles what happens when stage geniuses come up against the anti-intellectual producers of Hollywood.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
1. The First Hollywood Musicals
2. De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson
3. Irving Berlin
4. George and Ira Gershwin
5. Rodgers and Hart
6. Jerome Kern
7. Cole Porter
8. Operetta
9. Johnny Mercer, Frank Loesser, and Harold Arlen
10. Direct from Broadway
11. Rodgers and Hammerstein and Lerner and Loewe
12. The Last Hollywood Musicals
Bibliography
Index