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The shocking Miss Pilgrim : a writer in early Hollywood

This revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture from the 1920s to the 1950s and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio system
Print Book, English, ©1999
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©1999
Mass, Frederica Sagor
xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813121222, 0813121221
40230976
Family roots
From Columbia to Universal
Story editor
Purchase of The plastic age
My introduction to Hollywood
Hollywood parties
My friend, Riza
The troublemaker
Meeting Ernest Maas
Honor among thieves
The Maases go to Europe
"Swell fish"
The Depression years
Marriage in crisis
Motion picture peddler
World War II
The desecration of Miss Pilgrim's progress
Civil war stories are out
Includes index