It was the finish of an era-it was a turbulent, colorful, and completely remarkable period, four short years in which America’s most popular market reinvented itself.

This is actually the epic story of the transition from silent films to talkies, that moment when films were totally transformed as well as the American public cemented its love affair with Hollywood. As Scott Eyman demonstrates in his exciting account of the exciting era, it had been a time when fortunes, careers, and lives had been made and dropped, and when the American film market came fully into its.

In this mixture of cultural and public history that’s both scholarly and vastly entertaining, Eyman dispels the misconceptions and gives us the missing section in the history of Hollywood-the ribbon of dreams where America conquered the world.