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Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897-1936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his conflicts with Louis B. Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after the introduction of talkies. A dramatic and interesting personality,...
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The daughter of romantic idol John Gilbert offers a sympathetic, largely candid biography--which blames his downfall on a conspiracy of sabotage masterminded by MGM's Louis B. Mayer. Fountain sketches in Gilbert's early years; his storybook climb from teenage poverty to beginnings, as a gawky extra, in the silents; his rocky marriage to Fountain's mother, actress Leatrice Joy, who was the bigger draw at the start. Then comes Gilbert's mid-1920s burst...
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