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Souls for Sale (Paperback)
Rupert Hughes; Introduction by Sarah Gleeson-White
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On her wedding night, Remember "Mem" Steddon, daughter of a
small-town conservative preacher, has a sudden change of heart.
Abandoning her groom, she impulsively sneaks off their Los
Angeles-bound honeymooner train in the middle of the desert. When
she recuperates from dehydration, she finds herself on a film set
and is cast as an extra. As Mem's masterful art of deception drives
her to fame, the left-behind husband returns, raging with jealousy
and murderous revenge. First published 1922 and adapted to screen
the following year by Rupert Hughes himself, this "insider" story
of Hollywood filmmaking traces every Hollywood trope from slapstick
comedy to theatrical melodrama with love and deceit at every page
turn. Hazing the lines between truth and fiction, Souls for Sale is
a snapshot of Hollywood's Golden Age, hailed by three-time Pulitzer
Prize winner Carl Sandburg as "the heart of moviedom by anyone who
believes in it."
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