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Cargando... I Lost My Girlish Laughter (1938)por Jane Allen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A young woman moves to Hollywood in the 1930's, gets a job as a producer's secretary, and learns first-hand the insanity of the movie business. I wanted and expected to like this book, since it's a fun topic and I particularly enjoy epistolary novels, but it just didn't move me. I couldn't really get a handle on the main character, and too many of the letters just seemed like an excuse for straight-forward first-person narration. Parts are quite funny, however, including when the producer moves all of his operations to the hospital while his wife is in labor. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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