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I Lost My Girlish Laughter

By Jane Allen

I Lost My Girlish Laughter Contemporary literature

I Lost My Girlish Laughter

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A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system. Madge Lawrence, fresh from New York City, lands a job as the personal secretary to the powerful Hollywood producer Sidney Brand (based on the legendary David O. Selznick). In a series of letters home, Western Union telegrams, office memos, Hollywood gossip newspaper items, and personal journal entries, we get served up the inside scoop on all the shenanigans, romances, backroom deals, and betrayals that go into making a movie. The action revolves around the production of Brand's latest blockbuster, meant to be a star vehicle to introduce his new European bombshell (the real-life Marlene Dietrich). Nevermind that the actress can't act, Brands' negotiations with MGM to get Clark Gable to play the male lead are getting nowhere, and the Broadway play he's bought for the screenplay is reworked so that it is unrecognizable to its author. In this delicious satire of the film business, one is never very far from the truth of what makes Hollywood tick and why we all love it.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2019-11-05
Publication Date:
2019-11-05
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1984897764
ISBN13:
9781984897763
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
244 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
206 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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