I lost my girlish laughter /
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 item...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Vintage Books edition. |
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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: | "Originally published by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1938."--Title page verso. "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: | xxv, 192 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781984897763 1984897764 |