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A real Hollywood ending doesn’t always come from Hollywood; sometimes it comes from, gasp, the internet.
Or in this case, the Internet Archive, which has stepped in at the 11th hour to save the Michelson Cinema Research Library.
Lillian Michelson is Hollywood’s most famous and beloved librarian. Her marriage to late, great storyboard artist and production designer Harold Michelson brought her to Los Angeles in the late 1940s and eventually to Samuel Goldwyn Studios, where she began a lifelong career providing inspiration and information for all manner of filmmakers. Over the next half-century, she would build a cinematic research library second to none.