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<p>Using the life and career of her father, an early Hollywood actor, <i>New Yorker</i> writer Margaret Talbot tells the thrilling story of the rise of popular culture through a transfixing personal lens. The arc of Lyle Talbot’s career is in fact the story of American entertainment. Born in 1902, Lyle left his home in small-town Nebraska in 1918 to join a traveling carnival. From there he became a magician’s assistant, an actor in a traveling theater troupe, a romantic lead in early talkies, then an actor in major Warner Bros. pictures with stars such as Humphrey Bogart and Carole Lombard, then an actor in cult B movies, and finally a part of the advent of television, with regular roles on <i>The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet</i> and <i>Leave It to Beaver</i>. Ultimately, his career spanned the entire trajectory of the industry.</p> <p>In her captivating, impeccably researched narrative—a charmed combination of Hollywood history, social history, and family memoir—Margaret Talbot conjures warmth and nostalgia for those earlier eras of ’10s and ’20s small-town America, ’30s and ’40s Hollywood. She transports us to an alluring time, simpler but also exciting, and illustrates the ch

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Author

Margaret Talbot

Publisher

New York: Riverhead Books

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101597057

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (199 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14