How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
- ISBN-10
- 0385304897
- ISBN-13
- 9780385304894
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Delta
- Authors
- Roger Corman, Jim Jerome
Description
This revealing autobiography details Roger Corman's rise from Twentieth Century-Fox messenger to antistudio maverick and producer of low-budget "exploitation" films. With such memorable titles as The Little Shop of Horrors, Attack of the Crab Monsters and The Beast with 1,000 Eyes, Corman carved his niche in the history of Hollywood. Photographs.
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- 1990
- 237 pages
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