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American Zeus
- The Life of Alexander Pantages, Theater Mogul
Engelsk Paperback
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American Zeus
- The Life of Alexander Pantages, Theater Mogul
Engelsk Paperback

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Alexander Pantages was 13 when he arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s, after contracting malaria in Panama.

He opened his first motion picture theater in 1902 and went on to build one of the largest and most important independently-owned theater chains in the country. At the height of the Pantages Theaters'' reach, he owned or operated 78 theaters across the U.S. and Canada. He amassed a fortune, yet he could not read or write English.

In 1929 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old dancer--a scandal that destroyed his empire and reduced him to a pariah. The day his grandest theater, the Pantages Hollywood, opened in 1930, he lay sick in a jailhouse infirmary. His conviction was overturned a year later after an appeal to the California State Supreme Court, but the question remains: How should history judge this theater pioneer, wealthy magnate and embodiment of the American Dream?

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
226
ISBN-13:
9781476668383
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1476668388
Udg. Dato:
5 feb 2018
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
5 feb 2018
Forfatter(e):
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