Merton of the Movies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Merton of the Movies, credited to Harry Leon Wilson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Merton of the Movies, by Harry Leon Wilson. Read by Margaret Espaillat. Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a correspondence course from the General Film Production Company of Stebbinsville, Arkansas, certifying him to be a competent screen actor? Harry Leon Wilson, the author, was a very popular humor writer in the first decades of the 20th century. This book was made into film several times, the last in 1947 starring Red Skelton. (Summary written by Margaret Espaillat.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Merton of the Movies
• Author credits: Harry Leon Wilson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 12:15:17

Catalogue topics

• comedy
• movies
• cinema
• film
• actors

Track guide

1. 01 - Dirty Work at the Border — 25:18
2. 02 - That Night - The Apartments of Cliffor Armytage — 43:17
3. 03 - Western Stuff — 57:50
4. 04 - The Watcher at the Gate — 34:45
5. 05 - A Breach in the City Walls — 45:29
6. 06a - Under the Glass Tops, part 1 — 32:47
7. 06b - Under the Glass Tops, part 2 — 30:11
8. 07 - 'Nothing To-Day, Dear!' — 48:29
9. 08 - Clifford Armytage, the Outlaw — 22:24
10. 09 - More Ways than One — 28:56
11. 10 - Of Shattered Illusions — 29:41
12. 11 - The Montague Girl Intervenes — 51:41
13. 12 - Alias Harold Parmalee — 39:36
14. 13 - Genius Comes into Its Own — 29:29
15. 14 - Out There Where Men Are Men — 37:51
16. 15 - A New Trail — 34:25
17. 16 - Of Sarah Nevada Montague — 31:18
18. 17 - Miss Montague Uses Her Own Face — 37:11
19. 18 - 'Five Reels - 500 Laughs' — 32:07
20. 19 - The Tragic Comedian — 24:29
21. 20 - Onward and Upward — 18:16

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