01700cam a22003253u 4500 3472 UtSlPG 20260610133113.0 m cr n 260607r2002||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Wilson, Harry Leon, 1867-1939 Merton of the Movies Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2002 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton_of_the_Movies_(novel) Release date is 2002-10-01 Produced by Charles Franks, Ralph Zimmermann, the Online Distributed Proofreading Team, and David Widger "Merton of the Movies" by Harry Leon Wilson is a comic novel published in 1922. Small-town dreamer Merton Gill abandons his simple life to pursue stardom in Hollywood's silent film industry. Armed with a correspondence course in acting, he arrives in the glamorous world of cinema only to find his idols less perfect than imagined. With help from stuntwoman Flips Montague, Merton finally gets his chance—but his earnest, dramatic performances produce hilariously unexpected results that transform his career in ways he never anticipated. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Motion picture industry -- Fiction Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3472 45543 45543