Those Were the Days, My Friend Hardcover – September 1, 1993 9780810826946

While David O. Selznick is the focal point of the book, it also contains remembrances of many other personalities, including William S. Paley, Gloria Swanson, Howard Hughes, Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, and Cary Grant. Macnamara remembers his dealings with William Randolph Hearst and the newspaper gossip columnist Louella Parsons. He writes of planning Shirley Temple’s marriage, and of the making of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Moon Is Blue.

Those Were the Days will delight anyone interested in Hollywood’s golden age with its unique look at the work of a major industry publicist. It is an insider’s view of Hollywood that will appeal to both insiders and outsiders.