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Starmaker: The Autobiography of Hal Wallis
Starmaker The Autobiography of Hal Wallis Author:Hal B. Wallis, Charles Higham, Katharine Hepburn Discoverer of great stars -- including Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Humphrey Bogart, Shirley MacLaine, Errol Flynn, Charlton Heston, Kirk Douglas, and Jerry Lewis -- Hal Wallis, legendary Oscar-winning producer of Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and over one hundred other classic pictures, has led a life most people only dream about. — In... more » this exciting memoir, told in conjunction with best-selling biographer Charles Higham, Wallis relates countless never-before-told stories about the great and powerful. We learn much that is new and surprising about his close friends and starring players John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn (who supplied a memorable foreword to the book); about his famous wives, actresses Louise Fazenda and Martha Hyer; about the tempestuous Anna Magnani; and about Paul Muni, Audrey Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Jennifer Jones, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Genevieve Bujold, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, and Tony Curtis« less