In
the 1940s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was at the epicenter of the film world.
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Elizabeth Taylor
were only a few of the many stars under contract at the studio. The
author, Claude Jarman Jr., takes us from his discovery in a small school
in Nashville, Tennessee, through his life among the movie elite. After
receiving a special Academy Award for his performance in The Yearling
in 1946, he remained at MGM until 1950 when the arrival of television
savaged the studio and the star system. He appeared in ten additional
films, including playing the son of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in
John Ford's epic western Rio Grande and Intruder in the Dust,
a story of racial strife in Mississippi based on a novel by William
Faulkner. After retiring from films in 1956 at the age of twenty-one, he
returned to the movie world in 1965 as the director of the San
Francisco International Film Festival which reunited him with famous
legends in the film industry.
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