Mark Vieira, Irving Thalberg Exhibition

Hollywood historian and photographer Mark A. Vieira does a "walk and
talk" tour of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ current
Irving Thalberg exhibit, which he mounted as guest curator in
conjunction with his extensive, just published biography, Irving
Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince.
Thalberg, a legendary Hollywood executive, died young, but his
legacy, Vieira explains, has lasted. Not only with the Academy's
Thalberg Award and his film classics (Ben Hur, A Night at the
Opera, Grand Hotel, and Mutiny on the Bounty) but
in his innovations, which included shooting retakes after sneak previews, and
his reinvention of the director as the author of a film. The Thalberg
exhibit at the Academy's Beverly Hills Wilshire headquarters runs
until Dec. 13, 2009 (49 minutes).

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