The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire [*SIGNED*]

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.. Good in Good dj. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. [book in shelfworn at lower extremities (including exposure of boards at corners), and has a horizontal tear in the cloth mid-spine; the jacket has quite a bit of edgewear, and has been externally repaired/reinforced with clear tape at both ends of the spine and at the lower right corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author, to "an old friend," on the front endpaper. The more-or-less "official" (one might say) and somewhat mythologizing history of M-G-M -- heavily informed by the author's sources, almost exclusively studio stalwarts like Norma Shearer and Howard Strickling (the ultimate protect-the-studio publicist, who took most of his secrets to his grave), executives like Nicholas Schenck and Dore Schary, and "countless company employees." (Although there's no indication that Crowther ever spoke with Louis B. Mayer himself -- who had been essentially forced out of the company in 1951 -- I think it's worth noting that the book was published about six months before "that durable phenomenon," as the jacket blurb calls him, breathed his last.) Signed by Author .