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• catalog abstract ""Jimmy Starr was a Hollywood screenwriter, publicist, press agent, and most notably, gossip columnist. In this autobiography, Starr recalls his forty-year career that began as an office boy at Metro Studios in 1919. In an age where the written word wielded great influence over public perception of the the film industry, Starr was a recognizable figure, writing columns for the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the New York Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror." "In Barefoot on Barbed Wire Starr provides vivid portraits of screen stars, studio executives, and fellow writers from 1919 through the 1960s. He also discusses his contemporary publicists and columnists, including Howard Strickling and Harry Brand."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12128888.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""Jimmy Starr was a Hollywood screenwriter, publicist, press agent, and most notably, gossip columnist. In this autobiography, Starr recalls his forty-year career that began as an office boy at Metro Studios in 1919. In an age where the written word wielded great influence over public perception of the the film industry, Starr was a recognizable figure, writing columns for the Los Angeles Herald-Express and the New York Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror." "In Barefoot on Barbed Wire Starr provides vivid portraits of screen stars, studio executives, and fellow writers from 1919 through the 1960s. He also discusses his contemporary publicists and columnists, including Howard Strickling and Harry Brand."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "A Brush with the Big Time -- I Crash a Studio -- When Lady Luck Smiles -- The Valentino Friendship Begins -- Out of the Frying Pan ... And into the Fire -- Ten Cents a Joke -- My Blackface Imitation Didn't Worry Jolson -- The Mathis Mystery -- The First Big Studio Loan-Out -- My Biggest Hollywood Gesture -- I Am Supposed to Stop a Murder -- Almost a Monkey Wrench to Romance -- My Great Night -- Bighearted Boss -- Big-time Bootlegger, or Booze and Blondes -- Phony Pooch Publicity -- The Reel Racket -- Setting the Social Scene -- A Famed Movie Elephant Must Die -- The Wampas -- Sid, the Wild Joker -- Hollywood's First Cheapskate Press Agent -- Breaking into the Big Times -- New, Young Press Agent Makes Good -- A Goal Is Achieved: I Am at Mack Sennett's -- A Sudden Bit of Stark Tragedy -- The Man Who Kept His Promise -- The Great Talking Dog Hoax -- A Chinaman's Chance -- He Screwed Himself to Death -- Bogart Flivvered by Ford -- A Lotta Lovin's Lottie -- The Fastest Scripter in the West! -- Cooking Up Hollywood's Biggest Social Blaze -- The Truth about Gable -- How Hollywood History Is Made -- Quick Change Artist -- Just about as Fay as Fay -- A Rare Day in Hollywood History -- Stage Struck? Never! Just Scared to Death -- Just a Night in Hollywood -- Marshall Neilan -- The Whiz-Bang Kid -- A City Revisited ... with Memories -- Hepburn and Rogers -- When the Ham Starts to Sizzle -- The Lay of the Land -- What Did He Have to Tell Me? -- Battle of the Big Ballyhoos -- Hometown Incident -- It's Such a Small World.".
• catalog extent "xix, 275 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Barefoot on barbed wire.".
• catalog identifier "0810839415 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Barefoot on barbed wire.".
• catalog isPartOf "Filmmakers ; 83".
• catalog isPartOf "Filmmakers series ; no. 83.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press,".
• catalog relation "Barefoot on barbed wire.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "070/.92 B 21".
• catalog subject "Gossip columnists United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "PN4874.S66 A3 2001".
• catalog subject "Starr, James, 1904-1990.".
• catalog subject "Starr, Jimmy.".
• catalog tableOfContents "A Brush with the Big Time -- I Crash a Studio -- When Lady Luck Smiles -- The Valentino Friendship Begins -- Out of the Frying Pan ... And into the Fire -- Ten Cents a Joke -- My Blackface Imitation Didn't Worry Jolson -- The Mathis Mystery -- The First Big Studio Loan-Out -- My Biggest Hollywood Gesture -- I Am Supposed to Stop a Murder -- Almost a Monkey Wrench to Romance -- My Great Night -- Bighearted Boss -- Big-time Bootlegger, or Booze and Blondes -- Phony Pooch Publicity -- The Reel Racket -- Setting the Social Scene -- A Famed Movie Elephant Must Die -- The Wampas -- Sid, the Wild Joker -- Hollywood's First Cheapskate Press Agent -- Breaking into the Big Times -- New, Young Press Agent Makes Good -- A Goal Is Achieved: I Am at Mack Sennett's -- A Sudden Bit of Stark Tragedy -- The Man Who Kept His Promise -- The Great Talking Dog Hoax -- A Chinaman's Chance -- He Screwed Himself to Death -- Bogart Flivvered by Ford -- A Lotta Lovin's Lottie -- The Fastest Scripter in the West! -- Cooking Up Hollywood's Biggest Social Blaze -- The Truth about Gable -- How Hollywood History Is Made -- Quick Change Artist -- Just about as Fay as Fay -- A Rare Day in Hollywood History -- Stage Struck? Never! Just Scared to Death -- Just a Night in Hollywood -- Marshall Neilan -- The Whiz-Bang Kid -- A City Revisited ... with Memories -- Hepburn and Rogers -- When the Ham Starts to Sizzle -- The Lay of the Land -- What Did He Have to Tell Me? -- Battle of the Big Ballyhoos -- Hometown Incident -- It's Such a Small World.".
• catalog title "Barefoot on barbed wire : an autobiography of a forty-year Hollywood balancing act / Jimmy Star.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".