I lost my girlish laughter a novel
In this thinly-disguised pseudonymous satire, Madge Lawrence is a "good girl" trying to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As secretary to a big-time producer, Madge learns the movie business from the inside. The story unfolds in a series of documents--memos, telegrams, newspaper items, and let...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Vintage Books,
2019.
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| Summary: | In this thinly-disguised pseudonymous satire, Madge Lawrence is a "good girl" trying to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As secretary to a big-time producer, Madge learns the movie business from the inside. The story unfolds in a series of documents--memos, telegrams, newspaper items, and letters from Madge to a former colleague in New York. |
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| Item Description: | "The classic Hollywood novel of the 1930s"--Cover "Jane Allen" is a pseudonym for Jane Shore, a professional writer, and Sylvia Schulman, who had worked as a secretary for David O. Selznick |
| Physical Description: | 192 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781984897763 |
| Author Notes: | JANE SHORE came to Hollywood from New York City in 1928 to write a film for Nancy Carroll, which was ultimately not produced. She collaborated with Silvia Schulman on I Lost My Girlish Laughter and continued to write under the pseudonym of Jane Allen for "A Girl's Best Friend Is Wall Street" (adapted for the screen in 1941 as She Knew All the Answers ). Her novel, Thanks God! I'll Take It from Here (1946), written in collaboration with May Livingstone, was adapted for the screen and retitled W ithout Reservations (RKO, 1946). J. E. SMYTH is professor of history at the University of Warwick (UK) and the author of several books about Hollywood, including Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood (2018). |
