The Heart of the Lion

The Heart of the Lion
Authors
Martin Turnbull
Publisher
Martin Turnbull
Size
0.59 MB
Lang
en
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Lose yourself in the Golden Age of Hollywoodand discover the story of the man who helped create it.

Hollywood in the 1920s: the motion picture industry is booming, and Irving Thalberg knows it takes more than guts and gumption to create screen magic that will live forever. He's climbed all the way to head of production at newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and is determined to transform Leo the Lion into an icon of the most successful studio in town.

The harder he works, the higher he soars. But at what cost? The more he achieves, the closer he risks flying into oblivion. A frail and faulty heart shudders inside this chest that blazes with ambition. Thalberg knows that his charmed life at the top of the Hollywood heap is a dangerous tightrope walk: each dayeach breath, evencould be his last. Shooting for success means risking his health, friendships, everything. Yet, against all odds, the man no one thought would...