Legend has it that Hollywood lures gifted writers into its
service with sunshine and money, only to treat them as glorified
typists and plot-mechanics, peripheral to the main business of
moviemaking. This is what Ian Hamilton describes as 'the
writer-in-chains saga that emerges from any study of Hollywood
during its so-called golden years - the period I have marked as
running from 1915-1951.'
But in this superb account of what befell the likes of Faulkner,
Fitzgerald, Chandler and Huxley by working for the Dream Factory,
Hamilton argues that these writers 'were in the movies by choice:
they earned far more money than their colleagues who did not write
for films, and in several cases they applied themselves
conscientiously to the not-unimportant task at hand. And they had a
lot of laughs...'
'Fascinating and enjoyable.' New Statesman
'Abounds in marvelous stories, apocryphal, fabulous, funny and
even true.' Observer
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