With or Without a Song: A Memoir

This is a history spanning almost a hundred years. The author, Edward Eliscu, describes the course of his life from his family’s emigration to America, his youth in New York City, his experiences in the Broadway theatre, and career as a song writer, his migration to Hollywood, return to New York as a television writer, and his eventual recognition as a celebrity in the entertainment field. He recounts how he survived three blacklists, offers an insider’s look at the Hollywood of the Depression and 1930s, and includes anecdotes about actors such as George Cukor, Katherine Hepburn, Dore Schary, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo.