New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide – Richard Alleman (2005)
New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide – Richard Alleman (2005) New York : the movie lover’s guide : the ultimate insider tour of movie New York New York: The Movie Lover’s Guide Richard Alleman (2005) Broadway Books New York An original trade paperback edition of this book was published in 1988 by Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. It is here reprinted by arrangement with Richard Alleman. MoMA Museum of Modern Art THE ULTIMATE INSIDER TOUR OF MOVIE NEW YORK Believing that film was “the only great art peculiar to the twentieth century,” former MoMA director Alfred H. Barr Jr. established the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935, and immediately sent curator Iris Barry on a special mission to Hollywood to drum up support for his innovative undertaking. There, at a party given by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Pickfair, their lavish Beverly Hills estate, Miss Barry met industry heavyweights like Samuel Goldwyn, Harold Lloyd, Harry Warner, Harry Cohn, Ernst Lubit...