The Cunning Strategies of a Hollywood Superagent

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 18, 2015

Brian Kellow talks about Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s first superagent. One of the most outrageous showbiz characters of the 1960s and 1970s, her clients included Barbra Streisand, Michael Caine, and Candice Bergen. Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's First Superagent shows how she became a driving force of Creative Management Associates (which later became ICM).

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