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Hollywood on the Veld

Ted Botha

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      In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top floor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. And not just any movies but the biggest in the world, huge spectacles with elaborate sets, thousands of extras and epic story lines.

      Isidore Schlesinger – better known as ‘IW’ – built a studio on a farm called Killarney, where he set out to challenge a place in America that was in its infancy: Hollywood.

      The glamour, gossip and high drama of IW’s studio fit perfectly into a city experiencing an intoxicating golden age. There was as much action on the movie sets as there was on screen: from political intrigue and the clashing of massive egos to public outbursts, fiery judicial inquiries, disaster and death.

      Behind this mad enterprise was a maverick, a tycoon, a recluse, a friend of the famed and the connected. IW could have held his own in California but he chose as his base the City of Gold. This is the never-been-told-before story of the rise and fall of the strangest and most unique movie empire ever.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Ted Botha EAN: 9781776194681 COUNTRY: PAGES: 224 WEIGHT: HEIGHT:
      PUBLISHED BY: Jonathan Ball Publishers South Africa DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: Biography WIDTH: SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Film/ Television/ Social & Cultural History

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      In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top floor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. And not just any movies but the biggest in the world, huge spectacles with elaborate sets, thousands of extras and epic story lines.

      Isidore Schlesinger – better known as ‘IW’ – built a studio on a farm called Killarney, where he set out to challenge a place in America that was in its infancy: Hollywood.

      The glamour, gossip and high drama of IW’s studio fit perfectly into a city experiencing an intoxicating golden age. There was as much action on the movie sets as there was on screen: from political intrigue and the clashing of massive egos to public outbursts, fiery judicial inquiries, disaster and death.

      Behind this mad enterprise was a maverick, a tycoon, a recluse, a friend of the famed and the connected. IW could have held his own in California but he chose as his base the City of Gold. This is the never-been-told-before story of the rise and fall of the strangest and most unique movie empire ever.

      CONTRIBUTORS: Ted Botha EAN: 9781776194681 COUNTRY: PAGES: 224 WEIGHT: HEIGHT:
      PUBLISHED BY: Jonathan Ball Publishers South Africa DATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: Biography WIDTH: SPINE:

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      Film/ Television/ Social & Cultural History

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