Stars and starlets; movie-makers and money-makers; tycoons and flesh-peddlers; frauds and geniuses; hopefuls and has-beens; great lovers and sex symbols. Kanin saw them all in his time at Hollywood in what is now known as the Golden Years. Here are the inside workings of the industry; revelations of such stars as Carole Lombard, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo and Marylin Munroe; Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx, as well as tales of failure and success for Charles Laughton, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Holliday and Ginger Rogers. There are also seldom-captured views of the powerful men who shaped the industry as we know it today - Harry Cohn, Darryl F. Zanuck and Sam Goldwyn.