"Caesar Borgia Was No Better Able to Care for Himself": Portrait of Irving Thalberg, 1927

Some brief excerpts from a 1927 Vanity Fair article about Irving Thalberg. The article is by Jim Tully. One thing that strikes the Siren when reading film articles of the past is that the writers were often a great deal more prescient and perceptive than we give them credit for today.

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