Balio, Tino.

Grand design Hollywood as a modern business enterprise, 1930-1939 / [electronic resource] : Tino Balio. - New York, N.Y. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1993. - 1 online resource (ix, 483 p.) : ill. - History of the American cinema ; v. 5 Gale virtual reference library . - History of the American cinema ; v. 5. .

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Studies the advent of color, big musicals, the studio system and the beginning of institutionalized censorship which made the thirties the defining decade for Hollywood, the decade that ended with "The Greatest Year in Motion Pictures" - the year of "Gone With the Wind", "The Wizard of Oz", "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" and other classics.

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Motion picture industry--History.--United States
Motion pictures--History.--United States