The Shocking Miss Pilgrim : a Writer in Early Hollywood
"Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system. An ambitious twenty-three-year-old, Maas moved to Hollywood and launched her own writing career by drafting a screenplay of the bestselling novel The Plastic Age for ""It"" girl Clara Bow. On the basis of that script, she landed a staff position at powerhouse MGM studios. In the years to come, she worked with and befriended numerous actors and directors, including Norma Shearer, Joan Crawfo
eBook, English, 2010, ©1999
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2010, ©1999
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9780813127071, 9780813137438, 9781283327121, 0813127076, 0813137438, 1283327120
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Cover; THE SHOCKING MISS PILGRIM; Title; Copyright; To the "Swell Fish" that my husband, Ernest, and I parented-creative works that never saw the light of day.; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Family Roots; 2 From Columbia to Universal; 3 Story Editor; 4 Purchase of The Plastic Age; 5 My Introduction to Hollywood; 6 Hollywood Parties; 7 My Friend, Riza; 8 The Troublemaker; 9 Meeting Ernest Maas; 10 Honor Among Thieves; 11 The Maases Go to Europe; 12 "Swell Fish"; 13 The Depression Years; 14 Marriage in Crisis; 15 Motion Picture Peddler; 16 World War II. 17 The Desecration of Miss Pilgrim's Progress18 Civil War Stories Are Out; Epilogue; Index; Illustrations follow page
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