Bernard F. Dick, professor of communications and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, is the author of numerous books on film history, including Engulfed: the Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood and Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars.
"A masterful job of charting Wallis's career and examining his
roles as production executive and independent producer. This is an
engaging and illuminating narrative." -- Film Quarterly
"For someone whose name appears in the credits of hundreds of
movies, Hal Wallis doesn't get a lot of credit. Bernard F. Dick has
tried to rectify that with the first biography of the great
Hollywood producer." -- Philadelphia Inquirer
"Heston remarked, 'Hal was very good. Surely one of the two or
three best of them all.' Hal Wallis: Producer to the Stars offers
plenty of reasons to take that assessment seriously, and it gives a
great filmmaker his due." -- Hollywood Reporter
"Includes enough good gossip to keep movie addicts reading." --
Hollywood Reporter
"It is one thing to understand the complex operation of the film
industry, particularly in the wake of the studios having been
absorbed into conglomerates. It is quite another to tell the story
of the producers involved in this industry with insight and wit, in
a way that appeals to the general reader as well as to film
scholars. Bernard Dick has accomplished this feat once again in his
book on Hal Wallis." -- Gene Phillips, Loyola University
"This readable and well-documented book is enhanced by interviews
with Wallis's widow and with numerous individuals who worked with
Wallis in Hollywood.... Recommended" -- Choice
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