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    Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History
    Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History
    Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History
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    Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History

    By Manny Pacheco

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    Vision4Media Inc., a Brea, CA-based film production company, just signed a deal to develop a documentary based on Pacheco's work. V4M co-founder David Bojorquez, who will direct the film, said. "What makes this media property compelling for us are the stories behind some of the most beloved movies and cinematic legends from Hollywood's studio era, and how accounts reflect societal issues surprisingly relevant and entertaining today."

    The author's work has received literary recognition from the World Book Awards, USA Book News, Premier Books, Book&Authors.net, and the Hollywood Book Festival over the past year.

    The libraries of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, the Screen Actors Guild Foundation, and the Writers Guild Foundation have also added the honored paperback to their prestigious shelves. The book can also be found at the Hollywood Heritage Museum, and the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.

    Pacheco is a 29-year member of the Screen Actor's Guild, and has worked as a broadcast personality in Los Angeles for three decades. He's appeared on NBC's Santa Barbara, and co-hosted the Daytime Emmy-nominated In Studio on KCOP. The acclaimed scribe recently appeared on FOX 11's Midday Sunday to chat about his writings. He currently hosts a weekly radio show appropriately called Forgotten Hollywood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherManny Pacheco
    Release dateApr 11, 2011
    ISBN9781452415802
    Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History
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    Manny Pacheco

    Manny Pacheco is a Southern California radio and television personality. He has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild for over 40-years. His award-winning book Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History has won five major awards including 2013 Readers Favorite - Gold Medal, 2009 USA Book News - Winner, 2010 World Book Awards - Gold Medal. His paperback can be found in the prestigious libraries of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the American Film Institute, the SAG Foundation, and the Writers Guild Foundation. You can also find his work at the Hollywood Heritage Museum and the Niles Essanay Museum in Fremont, CA.

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      A reflection of America's story experienced through the eyes of character actors of Hollywood's Golden Age. Great films as Captain's Courageous, Stagecoach, and It's a Wonderful Life (among others) should never be forgotten. Neither should the impressive work of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Paddy Chayefsky, or Eugene O'Neill.
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      Author Manny Pacheco’s abiding fascination with cinema’s favorite character actors, has enjoyed a growing acclaim since his first award-winning book, Forgotten Hollywood, Forgotten History—now included in the library collections of the American Film Institute, the Hollywood Heritage Museum, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, among others. He recently signed a theatrical deal to turn his literary work into a documentary. A Southern California television and radio personality for over three decades, Pacheco co-hosted the Daytime Emmy-nominated In Studio, and currently hosts Forgotten Hollywood, a weekly program on The Spa radio network.

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    Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History - Manny Pacheco

    FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD

    FORGOTTEN HISTORY

    Starring The Great Character Actors

    of Hollywood’s Golden Age

    MANNY PACHECO

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    Copyright © 2009 by Manny Pacheco

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    For every book sold $1 will be donated to MOOSEHEART CHILD CITY & SCHOOL.

    MOOSEHEART CHILD CITY & SCHOOL is a residential childcare facility, located on a 1,000-acre campus 38 miles west of Chicago. The Child City is a home for children and teens in need, from infancy through high school. Dedicated in July 1913 by the Moose fraternal organization, MOOSEHEART cares for youth whose families are unable, for a wide variety of reasons, to care for them. The Moose fraternity provides children with a wholesome home-like environment and the best possible training and education.

    Moose Charities Inc., is a registered nonprofit, Illinois-based 501 (c)3 charity, charged with the primary goal of providing the necessary resources for the continued support and maintenance of the MOOSEHEART Child City & School and the MOOSEHAVEN retirement community. Additional donations can be made to Moose Charities 155 South International Drive, Mooseheart, Illinois 60539-1100. Email inquiries about Moose Charities Inc. can be made at request@moosecharities.org.

    Editor: Julie Scandora

    Cover Designer: Nina Barnett

    Typographer: Stephanie Martindale

    This book is dedicated to

    Margaret Prouty

    (1919-2009)

    A creative inspiration in my life. She had a tremendous love of black and white movies. She shared this enthusiasm with her children and me throughout her life. Her legacy lives with each printed word in this work. I will miss my beloved grandmother.

    CONTENTS

    Foreword by Gary Lycan

    Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    CHAPTER ONE - THE LOYAL OPPOSITION: Claude Rains

    CHAPTER TWO - TRIUMPH OVER DISABILITY: Lionel Barrymore

    CHAPTER THREE - POWER OF THE ELUSIVE AMERICAN DREAM: Arthur Kennedy

    CHAPTER FOUR - AN ADVOCATE AGAINST THE COMMUNIST THREAT: Ward Bond

    CHAPTER FIVE - TALL IN THE SADDLE: Walter Brennan

    CHAPTER SIX - 1939...HOLLYWOOD’S CROWN JEWEL: Thomas Mitchell

    CHAPTER SEVEN - HISTORY’S FOOTNOTE: John Carradine

    CHAPTER EIGHT - A VOICE FOR BLUE-COLLAR AMERICA: William Bendix

    CHAPTER NINE - HOLLYWOOD’S PATRIARCH: Donald Crisp

    CHAPTER TEN - CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD: Van Heflin

    CHAPTER ELEVEN - A TOE IN THE WATER: Eddie Rochester Anderson

    CHAPTER TWELVE - LADIES-IN-WAITING

    Gloria Grahame

    Beulah Bondi

    Thelma Ritter

    CHAPTER THIRTEEN - FROM FOIL TO SLEUTH: Basil Rathbone

    Afterword

    Appendix

    About the Author

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    FOREWORD

    THOSE OF US WHO WORK IN THE NEWS and entertainment industry are fascinated by history. I’m not sure if it is because we are dreamers caught up in thinking about what if…, or realists who see events as they actually happened and want to document it for future generations, whether it be audio, video, film, or a musical composition, or perhaps a story written online, for print media, magazines, or books. Yes, books, something one still picks up and reads and turns pages, as you are doing now.

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    Memo to President Johnson (regarding Apollo 1 fire)

    I’ve seen a fair amount of history. I was twenty-one and working Saturday nights on the wire desk at the Orange County Register. It was past deadline, around midnight. The presses started to roll, when the wire service (FLASH - five words or less) reported "Churchill Dies." It was Jan. 24, 1965, more than two years after I worked an entire weekend when JFK was assassinated, Nov. 22, 1963. The events unfold like chapters in a book for me – three astronauts die in Apollo fire in 1967, RFK killed in 1968, Elvis dead in 1977. The one story we laid out pages for and wrote headlines that made us feel jubilant – man landing on the moon in July, 1969.

    Along the way, I started writing a radio column, and later began producing a program about saving adoptable animals called The Pet Place. Along the way, I have met many personalities. One is Manny Pacheco, a native of Los Angeles who loves political science and history and probably would be a lawyer today had it not been for a diagnosis of kidney cancer while a junior in college. The prospect of a possible life cut short made him change direction and decide to be an entertainer. Luckily, the diagnosis was incorrect – his kidney merely had an abnormal shape. He changed majors and went on to become a successful radio personality in L.A. on several different stations. For Manny, history spun off into a unique knowledge of the oldies radio format.

    But Manny’s fascination with political science never waned. If anything, it kept nagging at him as he saw people relying more and more on internet reading, and history that is either colored by ideology, poorly written, or just plain incorrect. The result is this book – Forgotten Hollywood Forgotten History. It was an admittedly risky undertaking, profiling a selected group of Hollywood character actors and connecting their choices of film roles to the actual history or folklore of the persons they portrayed. One can easily walk a tightrope when writing a book appealing to both fans of old Hollywood and those who love history.

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    Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    Commemorative Postcard

    Overall, Manny does a skillful balancing act. This is one of those books you don’t want to read in a rush. Allow yourself the luxury of a chapter at a time, embrace the storytelling method that merges fact and fiction and delivers some fascinating insights into some of cinema’s favorite character actors. So, go get the popcorn, sit back and relax, and let the show begin…

    Gary Lycan

    Radio columnist, Orange County Register

    Executive producer and co-host, The Pet Place television show

    PREFACE

    APART FROM VISITING YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, or looking through Wikipedia in today’s computer age, it has become increasingly harder to come in contact with American history. As a member of the baby-boom age, I grew up going to school that required history as part of a full educational curriculum. The Golden Age of Hollywood and the early days of television were filled with projects from noted novelists and playwrights in dramatic reenactments that brought to life a time that existed before I was born (which was 1957). The source of original films and teleplays of the period might have come from Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Edna Ferber, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and other great authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rod Serling, Abby Mann, Paddy Chayefsky, and other noted script and screenwriters were not afraid to be controversial and intelligent in approaching thought-provoking issues of the day.

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    Writer Paddy Chayefsky

    While watching the adaptation of David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, John Adams, brought to life recently on HBO, I realized that this kind of television programming is disappearing from American society. After deep soul-searching and plenty of channel surfing, the only place today that I can find any significant references to our precious U.S. History is on PBS, C-Span3 History, Turner Classic Movies, and, of course, the History Channel. Snippets may also be shown on the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, A&E, and ESPN Classics. Otherwise, reality TV permeates network and cable television.

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    President John Adams (portrait)

    Every once in a while… Hollywood provides us with compelling historical cinema. Usually one can find these gems around award season. Then they go away and hibernate for the summer, to be replaced by inferior sequels and remakes, mindless horror movies, crass comedies, and weepy chick flicks.

    The computer is a valuable tool in finding educational and informational facts. The problem is that catalogues are too broad and non-categorized, and the temptation for today’s youth is to search for what is popular in our society. Gaudy styles of the week have replaced the significant substance of the past. I also fear that the slashing of funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities by the government might further erode the memories of our rich presentation of history.

    Before it becomes completely extinct, I decided to write a book that ties Hollywood’s past reverence of American history to how the U.S. actually evolved, linking events that occurred during our pre-Revolutionary days to issues that we might tackle in the new millennium. That said, it would have been easy to pick familiar stars of the

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