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Original Title:	The Dream Merchants
ISBN:	0671780166 (ISBN13: 9780671780166)

The Dream Merchants

Harold Robbins

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 544 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 1185 Users | 28 Reviews

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Title	:	The Dream Merchants
Author	:	Harold Robbins
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 544 pages
Published	:	1970 by Pocket Books (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Fiction. Romance

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Return to a time when Hollywood was young and the movie industry was just starting out. In Harold Robbins’ second novel, he captures a bygone era of entertainment pioneers turning cinematic dreams into reality. The Dream Merchants is a story of powerful men and passionate women, doing whatever they have to in order to succeed.



Johnny Edge is a former carny hustler, filled with schemes and ambition. Peter Kessler trades in a life of being stuck in the hardware business for the fortunes of moviemaking. Actress Dulcie Warren isn’t afraid to use her sexuality to fulfill her ambitions. And if she has to take someone down to get to the top? That’s show business. Their worlds collide on the studio back lots at Magnum Pictures in moments of intrigue and entanglement.



Robbins’ own experiences at Universal Studios laid the foundation for The Dream Merchants, the novel that would later be made into an all-star miniseries featuring Mark Harmon, Morgan Fairchild, Eve Arden, Robert Culp, Jose Ferrer, Robert Goulet, and Fernando Lamas.

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Harold Robbins takes us through the start-up days and golden days of the motion picture industry in his 1949 novel "The Dream Merchants". It is said that Robbins based the main character of Peter Kessler on that of Carl Laemmle who started Universal.Through the characters of Peter Kessler and Johnny Edge we get to sit in on the very first moments of the movie industry with the installment of 'flickers' into the arcade rooms at the dawn of the 20th century. The public immediately embraced this

THE DREAM MERCHANTS was Harold Robbins's second novel, published in 1949. It's set against the background of the early days of the motion picture industry, 1908-1938, and is loosely based on the saga of Universal Pictures. Robbins had no trouble getting the basics for the novels background, as he worked for most of the 1940s and into the 1950s as a budget analyst at Universal (which became Universal-International in the late 1940s).It's been over 40 years since I read THE DREAM MERCHANTS in its

Very readable book. I have enjoyed a lot reading this awesome book. Actually the reading of this book is like analyzing an entire episode of the life story of Hollywood. I always wonder how this author found out so many facts about film industry. Anyway I am so glad he did.

Back in the mid-twentieth century, Harold Robbins sold a lot of books. As a teenager, I remember his novels were everywhere, although I only read one of them. That book, A Stone for Danny Fisher, I read because it was the basis of the Elvis Presley film King Creole, a movie that is still one of my favorites. I remember the novel bore little relation to the film, as the setting and character were changed to fit the Elvis persona. So that was my first experience with Harold Robbins, an

c1949. Supposedly loosely based on his own experiences whilst working in Hollywood - I really enjoyed this book. The Encyclopedia Brittanica has the following to say about Mr Robbins,'Orphaned at birth, Robbins was placed in a Roman Catholic orphanage and was given the name Francis Kane. He was raised in several foster homes and assumed the last name Rubins from a Jewish foster family, but he changed it when his writing career took off. At the age of 19, he began speculating on crop futures; he

fun, trashy book--great beach read

I loved the way the book gave a glimpse of how the business of making movies came about and how hollywood was created. Although a very fictitious account of how things were...the book does take you to an era where you start understanding a lot of what happens today...