Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Date:
1935
Publisher:
Los Angeles : End Poverty League
Volume:
Sodom and Gomorrah : the story of Hollywood
Leaf #:
000178
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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174 SODOM AND GOMORRAH man, there exists a feeling that those connected with the gigantic cinema bluff are vastly superior to the other members of the human race engaged in less colorful but more worthy occupations. Those who are without experience in dealing with the personnel of the film industry do not know, and can never realize, how true this is. It is only after one has made an effort to contact those who rule in Hollywood that he can wholly comprehend and appreciate the full ravages of the mental disease which has spread throughout the industry. To those who are condemned byfate to spend their lives associating with the egomaniacs of Hollywood, the megalomania of official filmdom takes on the aspect of a plague. Ask any honest newspaper man! The greatest victims of this form of insanity are the motion picture executives. Delusions of grandeur are always most tragic in the excessively ignorant. The latter have no foundation whatever on which to base their mad pretense of greatness. Consequently, the uncouth tailors, who have become the rulers of the canned-drama business because they invested their money at a time when a little went a long way in Hollywood, have by flimsy props erected glorious thrones on which they sit and imagine they are gods. All the motion picture magnates, except the independents who have no stockholders to rob, have extensive suites of offices, extensive and ex