Bring in the Peacocks - Memoirs of a Hollywood Producer

"I was fortunate to be a part of the Golden Years of Hollywood, albeit the tail end of it

MGM was the largest and most lucrative film studio in the world

This giant of a studio made one movie a week in its heyday

With stars who were stars

And story lines that you could follow without the aid of computers and digital innovation

Louis B Mayer had just been dethroned and a new group of “filmmakers” emerged

That’s when I joined MGM

This book follows my career from this point until my very last film entitled Dangerous Liaisons

Then I retired, having received an Academy Award nomination for the best picture of 1988.

The book, hopefully, will reflect the 'happenings' that occur during the making of a film – some sad – some fascinating but definitely extremely humorous

This is raw Hollywood as it was"