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LILLIAN HELLMAN AND DASHIELL HAMMETT
Lillian: The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes, Pentimento: A Book of Portraits Dashiell: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, The Continental Op
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BEN HECHT ON THE MOVIE BUSINESS
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often...
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BEGUILING BOOKS WITH GEORGE KAPLAN
Booking A Show Adapting a book for the screen isn’t easy. No, really, don’t laugh at the obviousness of that statement! It isn’t. A screenwriter (okay, this is Hollywood we’re talking about…is there a...
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MARLENE DIETRICH, JOSEF VON STERNBERG AND A HOLLYWOOD DIVORCE
A screenwriter wrote this passage about her friend’s divorce at the age of 99. She was intimately acquainted with the ins and outs of Hollywood and waited until “all the bastards were dead” before she...
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The man who set screwball comedy on its ear – Preston Sturges
The Seven Wonders of Preston Sturges In just four years, 1940–44, Preston Sturges wrote and directed seven classics reflecting the America he loved and laughed at–a fast-talking, unpredictable melting...
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Sh…I’m sleeping…watch this little bit of The Palm Beach Story and I’ll see...
My darlings, I first posted this the day after the Academy Awards in February, and I’m trotting it out again because; a) it’s possibly my favorite movie of all time, and b) I’m still working with my...
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Star Spangled Joan Crawford – a reprise from the beginning of the blog
Happy 4th of July! (On January 9th, 2014, we’ll call it a little sparkle in the midst of the Polar Vortex.) For an amazing account of Hollywood from it’s inception to one screenwriter’s declaration of...
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“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in...
I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion. What Hollywood looked like when Mr. Faulkner deigned to spend time here… This is the corner of Highland and Hollywood Blvd. The building is still there....
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Stealing a line from Billy Wilder, “I am not a gal writing deep-dish...
You all know (I think…I must have mentioned it before…) that I started this blog because I was told I had to. The surprising and wonderful thing is that I love the people it’s introduced me to… I...
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Gossip column meets romance meets crime fiction…and it’s funny! Click on the...
5.0 out of 5 stars July 3, 2014 By Ellen Keefe – See all my reviews This review is from: It’s In His Kiss (Paperback) I haven’t read a murder mystery in a very long time because I don’t enjoy the...
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Hollywood types…intrigue, secrets…murder! Click on the picture!
5.0 out of 5 stars Witty, filled with wry side-eyed humor, and yes, a murder!, May 25, 2014 By Jan (Altadena, CA, United States) – See all my reviews Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is...
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It’s in His Kiss…naughty and nice — with plenty of intrigue and spice! Click...
5.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood Confidential: Mystery, Scandal & Romance, Oh My, June 28, 2014 By West Coast Reader – See all my reviews This review is from: It’s In His Kiss (Paperback) Anne Brown, a...
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From Whence Novels Do Come – Unvarnished Vickie Lester
Now I am sitting on the couch pondering this post — considering doing something on the photo that inspired my novel — self referential to a degree of great ickiness… Perhaps. I’ll see if I can make it...
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Blue skies, romance, Hollywood quips and a nip of noir…click on the pic to...
Whatever, or whoever, was the cause of her sudden twist of fortune, Anne wasn’t disembarking in Los Angeles. The travel itinerary from the studio specified her arrival in Palm Springs. Having flown in...
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Cecil B. DeMille, a.k.a., Papa Hollywood…
While we credit David Wark Griffith with creating the visual language of filmmaking in America – the father of Hollywood as a cultural force, a purveyor of dreams, a life style – is Cecil B. DeMille...
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So Alive…an excerpt from It’s in His Kiss by Vickie Lester
SO ALIVE In 1996 Keir Bloomfield got his first sole screen credit as a writer. Granted, it was on a low-budget, a very low-budget, movie that the producers guaranteed would be seen on oil platforms...
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