In “The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century,” New Yorker staff writer Margaret Talbot succeeds at what Hollywood failed to do for her father: She makes him a star. Humphrey ...

You’ll find an entry on Lyle Talbot (1902-1996) in some movie encyclopedias, but not in others. In the early 1930s, he was under contract to Warner Bros., often playing “weak-willed malefactors.” His ...

It’s hard to recall Lyle Talbot’s face. Reading his daughter Margaret’s story-packed book, The Entertainer: Movies, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century, my mental picture of him kept fading ...

New York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras ...

I had an odd experience while reading The Entertainer, Margaret Talbot’s wry, wonderful new book about her irrepressible actor father, Lyle, and American entertainment over the course of the 20 th ...

What New Yorker writers and editors are reading, watching, clicking, playing, and hearing. I’ve been listening, obsessively, to the compilation “Dark was the Night,” the latest CD put out by the Red ...

This spring, the Daily Californian will celebrate its Co-Alumni of the Year at its alumni & friends event on March 14, where we will honor Noah Berger and Margaret Talbot. To purchase tickets to the ...

Lyle Talbot began his entertainment career as a member of a touring carnival that also put on theatrical productions. His first real break came when he was hired by a traveling hypnotist named ...