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Hollywood: The Oral History
- By: Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Marni Penning
- Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Gleaned from nearly three thousand interviews, involving four hundred voices from the industry, Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a listener “listen in” on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera—Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Harold Lloyd—to the biggest behind it—Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the lesser known individuals that shaped what was heard and seen on screen.
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Picky, Picky!
- By Patrick on 12-22-22
- Hollywood: The Oral History
- By: Jeanine Basinger, Sam Wasson
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon, Marni Penning
Good oral history-poor reading
Reviewed: 01-18-23
The information is interesting if not exactly insightful. Too much of it is eyewitnesses of the era saying how great everyone was and weren’t we lucky. We needed some curmudgeons as well! The anecdotes themselves barely muster interest because no one seems to have any personality. Thus, the readers (male and female) have to try to make the dialogue interesting when they really have nothing to play. And even if they did, they are all wrong for the reading. The male had a bland sweet voice and the female has a touch of the irritating vocal rhythms and timbre of contemporary young women. If you’re going to act it, act it. If you’re going to just read, just read. But you need to study how people spoke back then. Americans in that circle of Hollywood spoke in distinctive styles so familiar from old movies.
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