Paramount In Paris: 300 Films Produced at the Joinville Studios, 1930-1933, With Credits and Biographies

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In an ambitious attempt to dominate the international sound film market, Paramount, the motion picture powerhouse, invested money abroad where great filmmaking talent was at hand. Waldman looks at the 300 films Paramount produced in Paris and the filmmakers who loaned their genius to an effort that has been overlooked by film historians.

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Those familiar with Waldman's previous books on Hollywood and foreigners and lost scenes won't be disappointed. He combines all three subjects in one epic of an entire lost foreign studio...Waldman has done quite a job in rescuing one of Hollywood's mostintriguing stories from the mysts of time...the synopses (of films often more risqu<\#142> than would have been allowed in the States) and the biographies are an enticing read.... * Movie Collector's World *
...a useful source of European cinematic history. * American Reference Books Annual *
...a fascinating look at the studio's 1930-33 attempts to dominate the market overseas... * Past Times *
Those familiar with Waldman's previous books on Hollywood and foreigners and lost scenes won't be disappointed. He combines all three subjects in one epic of an entire lost foreign studio...Waldman has done quite a job in rescuing one of Hollywood's most intriguing stories from the mysts of time...the synopses (of films often more risqu than would have been allowed in the States) and the biographies are an enticing read. * Movie Collector's World *

Author Bio

Harry Waldman is the author of several books, includingScenes Unseen (1991), Beyond Hollywood's Grasp (Scarecrow, 1994), and Hollywood and the Foreign Touch: A Dictionary of Foreign Filmmakers and Their Films from America, 1910-1995 (Scarecrow, 1996).