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“You’ll like Louis Mayer,” Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. “He is from Canada, too.” As Foster would soon discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian.

Stardust and Shadows brings together the stories of eighteen Canadians who were celebrities during Hollywood’s formative years. Most of those profiled were known to Foster and stories they told him about Hollywood’s early days, enhance by many years of research and interviews with other living performers and directors from the silent movie era, reveal a never-before-seen look at what the movie industry was really like in those early days.