Before, In and After Hollywood The Life of

The autobiography of Joseph Henabery, the director of some of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1920s including Douglas Fairbanks, Fatty Arbuckle, and Rudolph Valentino.

Foreword

ix

(4)

Acknowledgments

xiii

(2)

Editor's Introduction

xv

Part 1: Before Hollywood

1

(52)

Prologue

1

(1)

Before the Beginning

2

(2)

Early Childhood

4

(1)

Chicago World's Fair

5

(1)

Fourth of July

6

(2)

Horse and Buggy Days

8

(2)

Signs of Progress

10

(1)

Silence Is Golden

11

(2)

Trans-Mississippi Exposition

13

(4)

Travel

17

(1)

The Theater

18

(5)

School and Work

23

(4)

Here I Come, California

27

(3)

No Longer a Kid

30

(2)

Beating the Movies to Hollywood

32

(3)

Job Advancement

35

(3)

Real Estate

38

(1)

Success and Sour Grapes

38

(4)

Amateur Theatricals

42

(2)

Good-bye Railroad

44

(2)

Upside-Down House

46

(1)

Hollywood Is Born

47

(3)

Sixty-Day Deadline

50

(3)

Part 2: In Hollywood

53

(232)

Crashing the Movie Gates

53

(11)

D. W. Griffith -- Reliance-Majestic

64

(10)

The Birth of a Nation

74

(13)

Erich von Stroheim

87

(8)

Griffith Has Problems

95

(10)

Assisting Griffith

105

(5)

Early Intolerance

110

(11)

In Full Action

121

(7)

Understanding Griffith

128

(16)

Intolerance Finale

144

(6)

A Director's Debut

150

(3)

I Join Fairbanks

153

(8)

The Man From Painted Post

161

(6)

Marking Time

167

(2)

Writing and Directing

169

(14)

After the Armistice With Doug

183

(2)

Louis B. Mayer

185

(5)

Ince Studio

190

(3)

Take-Off With Lasky

193

(3)

Lasky--Arbuckle

196

(7)

No Contract With Lasky

203

(5)

Lasky--Holt

208

(8)

Lasky--Brady

216

(6)

Holt Writer Problems

222

(1)

Backings and Backgrounds

223

(2)

Lasky--Hollywood Return

225

(4)

Lasky--Holt and the Tiger

229

(5)

Lasky New Star -- Old Problems

234

(2)

Lasky--The Stranger

236

(3)

Lasky--Valentino

239

(3)

The Valentinos -- Plural

242

(4)

Shady Business

246

(3)

Movie Deals

249

(3)

Ritz Carlton--The Cobra

252

(7)

On the Sidelines

259

(6)

Back to Health

265

(5)

Freelancing

270

(8)

Double Trouble

278

(7)

Part 3: After Hollywood

285

(40)

Vitaphone

285

(12)

War

297

(10)

Industrial and Contract Work

307

(6)

Retirement

313

(2)

The Films of Joseph Henabery

315

(10)

Anthony Slide

Appendix: Myths

325

(26)

Index

351

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