This extraordinary book captures the glamour, the magic, the fabulous larger-than-life dimensions of the movies: from Fatima, the sensation of the penny arcade, to Marilyn Monroe; from The Great Train Robbery to The Jazz Singer and the wide wonders of Cinerama; the mad scientists (Lon Chaney to Boris Karloff); the musical spectacles (Gold Diggers of 1935); child stars like Shirley Temple and the first Our Gang kids, and dream girls like Louise Lovely, Jean Harlow and Grace Kelly. Six decades of movie idols, geniuses and charlatans, scandals and publicity stunts, monumental successes and epic failures, old-time masters of comedy, razzmatazz girls of the Twenties, gangsters and tarnished heroines of the Depression.