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196131411New York: Harper and Brothers 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 274 pp. "A shrewd and vastly entertaining look at the lights and shadows of Hollywood with portraits of some of its leading citizens - the sick the well the geniuses and the otherwise" A well-thumbed copy in very good condition in very good dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author to rock and roll journalist Al Aronowitz. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1960WRCLIT29223Yucca Valley: Manzanita Press 1960. Small quarto. Gilt cloth. Pictorial endsheets. Frontis. Fine in very good dust jacket with tanning to rear panel. First edition of this unconventional fictional depiction of Hollywood and its audience with a preface by Lion Feuchtwanger. Designed and published by Merle Armitage in a relatively small edition; an edition from Houghton Mifflin followed after Dorothy Parker praised it in ESQUIRE. Manzanita Press hardcover books
1948197491New York Grayson Publishing ca. 1948. 1948. Oblong 4to. 56 pages of gravures printed by Beck Gravure plus 8 page supplement added for this "enlarged edition." Spiral bound stiff printed pictorial red and green wrappers. Very good. Primarily studies of female nudes but with seven illustrations of male "beefcake" at the end. No signatures or bookplates. Soft cover. New York, Grayson Publishing [ca. 1948]. paperback books
181916034JLos Angeles: 16 pages on legal length sheets November 18 1936. Thomas B. Costain is best known for his historical novels and especially the film adaptations of his The Black Rose 1950 starring Orson Welles and Tyrone Power and The Silver Chalice starring Paul Newman Virginia Mayo Pier Angeli and Jack Palance. Unbeknownst to many Costain was the head of film studio 20th Century Fox’s bureau of literary development story department from 1934 to 1942. The contract engages Costain’s “.services in writing and/or assisting and/or collaborating in the writing of stories adaptations continuities scenarios or dialogue and services in a consulting capacity with respect to photoplays.†Fine condition. 16 pages on legal length sheets unknown books
1948197494New York Grayson Publishing 1948. 1948. Oblong 4to. 56 unnumbered pages of gravures of female nudes. Spiral bound red pictorial wrappers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. F. Soft cover. New York, Grayson Publishing [1948]. paperback books
193115715JNew York: Brentano’s 1931. First Edition First Printing. Very good copy in original sliver stamped cloth without dust jacket. Sylvia of Hollywood 1881-1975 was a Hollywood fitness guru. As Wikipedia notes “Hollywood Undressed revealed intimate details of Sylvia's famous Hollywood clientele which included Jean Harlow Marie Dressler Mae Murray Alice White Bebe Daniels Mary Duncan Ramón Novarro Ruth Chatterton Ann Harding Norma Talmadge Grace Moore Constance Bennett Gloria Swanson Nella Webb F.W. Murnau Elsie Janis Ernest Torrence Lawrence Tibbett Laura Hope Crews Ronald Colman Constance Cummings Ina Claire John Gilbert Carmel Myers Helen Twelvetrees Carole Lombard Ilka Chase Dorothy Mackaill Pepi Lederer Marion Davies Neil Hamilton Alan Hale Sr and Vivienne Segal†Brentano’s hardcover books
19475354NChicago: Harlich Manufacturing 1947. First Edition. With a printed introduction by actor Jean Hersholt. A 13†x 10 1/2†photo-style album the inner pages printed in blue ink with “quiz†pages reproducing movie star signatures and squares for filling in the correct colored stamps. The stamps themselves are produced in a variety of colors with black & white portraits and feature such stars as Basil Rathbone in a drawn Sherlock Holmes outfit Lauren Bacall Bette Davis next to an image of her in the role of Queen Elizabeth Joseph Cotten Marlene Dietrich Gene Autry Heddy Lamarr Ray Milland Rita Hayworth Lassie Trigger as well as a “Star Deck†series with caricatures of the stars on playing cards with actors such as Charles Laughton Peter Lorre Karloff as the Monster Harold Lloyd and too many more to list. An almost complete album with only a couple pages unfilled. A charming book with gilt embossed covers showing a large stamp with the faces of Comedy and Tragedy surrounded by movie star signatures. About fine. Harlich Manufacturing unknown books
194016032JLos Angeles: Samuel Goldwyn Inc 1940-1941. Four original contracts signed by Talbot Jennings to write a screenplay for Samuel Goldwyn Studios on the life of General George Armstrong Custer based on the book With Custer’s Calvary by Katherine Gibson Fougera. Dated between 1940-1941 the group includes the original 6 page master contract dated September 20 1940 plus 3 one page signed contracts of later dates. The contracts are accompanied by an ex-library 1940 first edition copy of Fougera’s book. Despite Talbot Jennings’s efforts the film was never produced. Talbot Jennings 1894-1985 was among Golden Age Hollywood distinguished screenwriters and was involved with the screenplays for such films as Mutiny On the Bounty The Good Earth The Black Rose Anna and the King of Siam Romeo and Juliet Northwest Passage Frenchman’s Creek Marie Antoinette Across the Wide Missouri Scaramouche The Sons of Katie Elder etc. Interesting material. Samuel Goldwyn, Inc unknown books
19502738861950. unbound. All the pages measure 3.75 x 4.75 inches and are signed by various actors and actresses of the Golden and Silver ages of Cinema including: Jackie Coogan 1914 - 1984 best remembered in Charlie Chaplin's classic film "The Kid" 1921 and for his television role as Uncle Fester in "The Addams Family"; Sabu 1924 - 1963 the first Indian actor to achieve great success in Hollywood -- he died at the age of 39; James Mason 1909 - 1984 an English actor who made the transition to American films and became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood; Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1909 - 2000 iconic American actor and highly decorated naval officer during World War II; and Robert Donat 1905 - 1958 English actor best remembered for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" 1935 and "Goodbye Mr. Chips" 1939 the latter earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor. All items are boldly signed and in near fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
194521236EBerkeley and Los Angeles CA: University of California Press 1945 1946 1947. Eight original issues of ‘Hollywood Quarterly’ magazine published under the joint sponsorship of the University of California and the Hollywood Quarterly Associates: for 1945 - Volume 1 October 1945 Number 1; for 1946 - Volume 1 January 1946 Number 2 with a supplement to Volume 1 1946 Volume 1 April 1946 Number 3 Volume 1 July 1946 Number 4 and Volume II October 1946 Number 1; and for 1947 - Volume II January 1947 Number 2 Volume II April 1947 Number 3 and Volume II July 1947 Number 4. All paperbound 6 3/4†x 10â€. The condition runs from bright very good lightly handled copies with some small chips and tears to one Volume II April 1947 Number 3 with dampstaining to the covers slightly affecting a few interior pages. Hollywood Quarterly was a quarterly journal devoted to the study and coverage of film television and visual media which ran from 1945 - 1951 when it became Quarterly of Film Radio and Television from 1951 - 1958 until its present incarnation as Film Quarterly. University of California Press unknown books
404967-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Fine. 7-1/4 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Two Hollywood actors of markedly different styles and fortunes: Mickey Rooney born 1920 youthful box office draw and major star in 1938 rising to the height of his popularity; and veteran character actor Reginald Gardiner 1903-1980 who appeared most often as an urbane Englishman with a mustache in dozens of films and on Broadway from the 1920s to the 1960s. unknown books
40510Bacall inscription in ink; Cukor in pencil. 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Fine. Bacall inscription in ink; Cukor in pencil. 8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. 1 vols. Bacall and Cukor to Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. unknown books
198212947JNew York: Delilah 1982. First Edition. Signed presentation copy to Hollywood actress Gwen Seager: “For Gwen - the golden girl of ‘the golden voice’ with thanks for being as lovely to be with. John Kobal.†Additionally signed with five signed presentation inscriptions from film director Bruce Martin and members of the crew of the documentary film Screen Dreams - The Hollywood Pinup based on this book of which Gwen Seager appeared in. Laid in is the original letter from the film production company asking her to appear with much information about the production as well as another thanking her for participating in the film. A superb collection of vintage black & white and color photographs of some of the most stunning women to grace the Hollywood screen. Near fine in a very good plus dust jacket with a couple of small tears. Delilah unknown books
1934230291934. Very good . 16mo. Black cloth stamped in gilt over stiff boards. Journal with side-band and latch with lock no longer functional. All edges gilt. Red ribbon bookmark attached. Boards moderately worn with scuffing to corners. Pen writing to approximately 1/4 of ruled pages; remainder blank. <br/><br/>Diary of Olive Grismer daughter of eminent playwright-producer-director Joseph R. Grismer and actress Olive Chamberlain Harper Grismer. Engaging closely observed and illuminating record of 1934 written by a young woman born into California's theater aristocracy. Grismer nineteen at the time of writing had familial connections to or social acquantaince with an enormous number of theater film and artistic personalities of 1930s Los Angeles and San Francisco -- most notably the de Milles and the Barrymores. Diary highlights include a multi-page description of Grismer's visit to sculptor Lorado Taft's Chicago studio a vast number of anecdotes regarding various Barrymores and de Milles and a captivating "time-worn tale of the eternal triangle" whose three members were: the writer Isabel Garland daughter of Hamlin Garland and then-wife of tenor Hardesty Johnson; the writer Mindret Lord whom Garland would eventually marry; and Lord's established lover Marguerite Namara a once-famous opera singer and fading musical comedy star. Grismer lays out in exacting detail who loves whom who knows about it who is complacent and who will be heartbroken. "Well well" she concludes 'I wonder how it will end" Grismer pauses her diary in 1935 following her 20th birthday but returns for a brief post-script in 1941. In the intervening six years she writes she has been married; now " on the brink of a 'trial separation' -- I call it my vacation!' Other well-known personalities appearing in Grismer's diary include: Stewart Edward White writer and spiritualist whose story "The Girl Who Got Rattled" formed the basis for one chapter of the Coen Brothers' recent "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"; Miriam Hopkins film actress and star of Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise; Barnaby Conrad: author author bullfighter and boxer; Carman Runyon coal magnate and onetime owner of Los Angeles's Runyon Canyon/Runyon Park; and many others. A fascinating view on Hollywood and theater life from a child's perspcetive. hardcover books
192722298ENew York: Boni & Liveright 1927. First Edition First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author Dan Ryan on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: “To Ethel - In gratitude for sympathetic encouragement while laboring on this opus. And - To Jim In memory of an old friendship. Sincerely Dan Ryan Oct. 28 1927â€. A lightly handled copy with some minor edge wear minor rubbing to the cloth and a few tiny tears to the cloth without dust jacket. The novel relates the life of Los Angeles newspaper reporter Will Pence who finds his material in the life of both the lowly and the famous. In the novel is a very thinly veiled portrait of the great Hollywood director Erich Von Stroheim whom Ryan knew intimately and he played an officer in Von Stroheim’s The Merry Widow 1925 and appeared as the Archbishop in The Wedding March 1928. Ryan went on to write for Hollywood films from the 20s into the 1940s. The title of this novel refers to the elevated railroad in Los Angeles that traveled up and down one uphill city block and had the distinction of being the shortest railroad in the world. Boni & Liveright hardcover books
193820931ELos Angeles: Walter Wanger Productions 1938. Original 1938 Studio Pass to Walter Wanger Productions for Hollywood Columnist Jimmy Starr with his signature. Bright orange and red cardstock 3 7/8†x 2 1/4†with rounded corners. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Walter Wanger Productions 1045 North Formosa Avenue Name Jimmy Star typed Publication Herald & Express typed Valid Until June 30 1938 Russell Phelps signed in ink Publicity Director.†With “Press Pass†printed along the outer edges. On the verso is a printed set of basic terms regarding the bearer’s use of the pass with Jimmy Starr’s signature in ink. Fine condition. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Walter Wanger was a film producer in Hollywood beginning his career at Paramount Picture in the 1920s and later at his own unsuccessful production company. Some of the films produced by Walter Wanger from 1938 Mr. Starr may have enjoyed include such popular productions as Trade Winds with Frederic March Joan Bennett and Ralph Bellamy Algiers with Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr Blockade with Madeleine Carroll and Henry Fonda and I Met My Love Again with Joan Bennett and Henry Fonda. Some of Wanger’s best known films include Joan of Arc 1948 with Ingrid Bergman Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 with Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter and Cleopatra directed and written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton and Rex Harrison. Walter Wanger Productions unknown books
195020930ESimi Valley CA: Corriganville Movie Ranch n.d. 1950s. Original 1950’s Studio Pass to Corriganville Movie Ranch Film Studio for Hollywood Columnist Jimmy Starr with his signature. Textured beige cardstock with Western Film decorative elements. 3 5/8†x 2 1/4†with rounded corners. Studio passes were given to press and industry representatives allowing the bearer access to the studio’s lot and sets. It reads in full: “Jimmy Starr and party typed at the top of the card 195__. Corriganville Privilege Card for Two Only Member’s Signature Jimmy Starr signed by him in ink Not Transferable By ___ illegible signature Present at Service Gate Only No. 252.†With a small image of a cowboy on horseback and a film camera director and lighting decorating the top corners. Blank on the verso. Fine condition. Jimmy Starr 1902 - 1990 is best known as a Hollywood columnist though he was also a writer and actor known for The Corpse Came C.O.D. 1947 A Night for Crime 1943 and Pink Pajamas 1929. Corriganville Movie Ranch was a working film studio and movie ranch used for outdoor location shooting as well as a Western-themed tourist attraction. It was owned by actor and stuntman Ray "Crash" Corrigan is located in the foothills of the Santa Susana Mountains in the Santa Susana Pass area of Simi Valley in eastern Ventura County California and is currently a public park. Some of the best known film and television productions using background scenery shot at the ranch include Fort Apache 1948 directed by John Ford starring John Wayne Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory 1952 with Clayton Moore The Robe 1953 screenplay by Philip Dunne starring Richard Burton Jean Simmons and Victor Mature and the television series The Lone Ranger with Jay Silverheels and Clayton Moore The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Sky King and Star Trek. Corriganville Movie Ranch unknown books
1915146857Los Angeles: Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles 1915. Vintage souvenir program for the Third Annual Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles Ball held February 13 1915. Photo-illustrated throughout with portraits of silent film actors directors producers and others and containing numerous advertisements for Los Angeles businesses and services most with some connection to the film industry. Scarce with only two copies in OCLC. <br/><br/>The Photoplayer's Club was a short lived social club for both men and women that had members from throughout the motion picture industry including "actors directors camera men technical men owners manufacturers and managers" and sought the provide a space where they could meet "in 'clubby' equality" and "may talk shop may eat drink and make merry." <br/><br/>As such the program provides a broad survey of both the major and minor players in the earliest days of the film industry as it established itself in Hollywood with each photograph identified with a caption and most actors and directors grouped with the studios or film production companies they were associated with. <br/><br/>12 x 9 inches in brown titled wrappers. About Very Good with loss and separation to the spine light chipping and few short closed tears with a brief dampstain to the lower corner of the page block. Photoplayer's Club of Los Angeles unknown books
193265709Four Miniature Flip Books Each Featuring A Star HOLLYWOOD. Hollywood Motion Picture Flip Books. Film Star Movie Books featuring Jean Harlow Joan Crawford Marion Davies and Marie Dressler. New York: Moviebook Corporation n.d.c.a. 1932. Four miniature flip books all in original wrappers each featuring a movie star and her biography. The stars included in this set are Jean Harlow Joan Crawford Marion Davies and Marie Dressler. 2 7/16 x 1 13/16 inches; 62 x 46 mm. Covers with a portrait of the star and twenty-four pages of photos from a movie scene which creates a flip book effect. The biography is printed under each picture. Printed on stiff photo paper in black and white. Some browning and wear. A chip to the top of Joan Crawford. A brown stain to covers of Crawford and Harlow which both bleed through a few pages only the stain on Crawford is affecting the photo. A bit dusty. Overall very good. The back page states "Send 10c for each book desired or $1.00 for complete set of 12." Other stars that were available were Norma Shearer Greta Garbo Clark Gable John Barrymore Lionel Barrymore Robert Montgomery Wallace Beery and Ramon Navarro. HBS 65709. $750 Moviebook Corporation unknown books
1922WRCLIT49410Garden City & Toronto: Doubleday Page & Co. 1922. Cloth. Faint old discoloration on top and fore-edge at the upper fore-corner otherwise a very good copy in the scarce pictorial dust jacket the latter with a couple of old inner mends some overall dust-darkening some short tears and chipping at the crown of the spine panel just touching the top line of letterpress and some surface abrasions to the text on the lower panel. First edition of this fictional send-up of the film industry at the time itself the basis for several film adaptations. This copy bears the author's inscription on the front free endsheet: "To Sam Marx: It's funny in spots - but the picture business is funnier at least to yours truly Harry Leon Wilson." The candidates for recipient include either the producer suggesting a date a few years later than publication for the inscription or the father of the Marx Bros. Uncommon in dust jacket. SMITH W-717. Doubleday, Page & Co. hardcover books
195224471London UK: Angus McBean Photographer Temple Bar 1952. Large format black and white photograph mounted on studio cardstock. Signed at the bottom left corner in pencil on the mount cardstock by British photographer Angus McBean 1904 - 1990 ".When his photographs were shown in 1976 as a retrospective exhibition at Impressions Gallery York and two years later at the National Theatre the significance of his work within the history of British photography was finally recognized. Acknowledged too was his place as an elder statesman of the burgeoning and culturally progressive international gay community." Val Williams rev. in the ODNB. Also signed by American actress Katharine Hepburn 1907 - 2003 in pencil next to the photographer's signature. In the summer of 1952 Katharine Hepburn starred in The Millionairess for a ten-week run at the New Theatre in London's West End; this image appears to be from that production; with the photographic studio stamps on the back of the mount. Approx. 11 1/2" x 14 1/2" size; cardstock edges worn with small scrapes and creases at the edges top corner chipped away bottom corner creased soft. Short 1/4" closed tear at left margin of the photo with little crease at that point. A very clear and very good portrait of the actress in a characteristically dramatic role. Signed by Photographer. Photography. Not Bound. Good. Illus. by Angus McBean. Angus McBean Photographer Temple Bar Paperback books
198116127JLos Angeles: Privately Published 1981. Oblong octavo black cloth with a color pictorial cover with embroidered onlay of the title. 76 pages. This is a fine facsimile reproduction of the autograph book circulated by the cast and crew of the movie Hook to visitors to the sets as the fabulous Neverland and pirate ship sets became a must see among Hollywood elite with an invitation highly prized. A series of 10 superb color photographs from the production has been added at the front. With a full-page message from director Steven Spielberg and literally hundreds of autographs including the signature and usually a brief comment or job definition sometimes with drawings. Distributed as a personal memento for the cast and crew of the film production and thus very scarce. Among the many dozens of autographs shown are Steven Spielberg Julia Roberts Robin Williams Dustin Hoffman Bob Hoskins Glenn Close Demi Moore Laura Dern Denzel Washington Kate Capshaw Billy Crystal Penny Marshall Whoopi Goldberg Twiggy Warren Beatty Holly Hunter Amy Irving George Lucas Richard Donner Quincy Jones Barry Levinson Peter Bogdanovich Sid Sheinberg Terry Semel Michael Ovitz Peter Guber Jon Peters Debra Winger Kevin Costner Gena Rowlands Mel Gibson Danny Glover Lea Thompson Richard Dreyfuss Sean Connery Jon Voight Tim Burton Laura San Giacomo Richard Gere James L. Brooks Michelle Pfeiffer Brian De Palma Robert Zemekis Eliott Gould Carrie Fisher Pee-wee Herman Drew Barrymore Henry Thomas Irvin Kershner Liza Minnelli Harold Ramis Renny Harlin John Singleton Mick Fleetwood Gary Oldman Terry Gilliam Forest Whittaker Maurice Sendak Danny De Vito Martin Short Jack Valenti Michael Eisner Jeff Bridges Susan Sarandon Tim Robbins Christian Slater Ed Lauter M. Emmet Walsh Oliver Platt Ray Stark Polly Platt Richard Zanuck Glenn Caron Lea Thompson Wendy Wasserstein Lasse Helstrom Wolfgang Peterson Steven Seagal Charlie Sheen Milos Forman Jimmy Smits Christian Bale Frank Marshall Kathleen Kennedy John McTiernan etc. Privately Published hardcover books
1948134704New York: Boni and Gaer 1948. First edition. INSCRIBED by actor Paul Robeson in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "All best wishes / and thanks / Paul Robeson / April 28 1948."<br/><br/>Many African-American witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the House Committee on Un-American Activities HUAC hearings in the 1950s were asked to denounce Paul Robeson 1888-1976 in order to retain future employment. Robeson an All-American football player and recipient of a Phi Beta Kappa key at Rutgers received a law degree at Columbia. He became an internationally acclaimed concert performer and actor as well as a persuasive political speaker. <br/><br/>In 1949 Robeson was the subject of controversy after newspapers reports of public statements that African Americans would not fight in "an imperialist war." In 1950 his passport was revoked. Several years later Robeson refused to sign an affidavit stating that he was not a Communist and initiated an unsuccessful lawsuit. In the following testimony to a HUAC hearing ostensibly convened to gain information regarding his passport suit Robeson refused to answer questions concerning his political activities and lectured bigoted Committee member Gordon H. Scherer and chairman Francis E.Walter on African-American history and civil rights leading to the now historic statement: "You are the Un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves."<br/><br/>Nearly ten years later in 1958 the Supreme Court ruled that a citizen's right to travel could not be taken away without due process and Robeson' passport was returned. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a bright Very Good plus dust jacket. <br/><br/>Bentley p. 770. Boni and Gaer unknown books
193015984JNew York: Vanguard Press 1930. First Edition First Printing. Signed by the authors: "Carroll and Garrett Graham June 19 1930". On the front pastedown is the engraved theatrical scene bookplate of Fritz Tidden who was the Hollywood publicist for great silent film director Erich von Stroheim and is known to have been one of only 12 people at a special screening who was shown the complete Greed Von Stroheim’s 1924 massive uncut 42 reel film masterpiece before it was dramatically cut by the studio to only 10 reels. A few small stains to cloth otherwise very good in a very good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears with the words office file copy stamped in a blank space on the rear panel. The front cover colorful artwork depicts a scantily clad beautiful actress posed in recline on a film set with a director and film crew photographing her. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy side of the life of Hollywood during its golden age is like no other work of fiction. In the 1976 reprint edition Budd Schulberg wrote “.in Queer People we have if not THE Hollywood novel - at least a truly seminal work on Hollywood in which may be found the seeds of at least three of the longer-lived Hollywood novels The Day of the Locust What Makes Sammy Run and The Last Tycoon.†The book was a scandalous sensation when published and went through numerous printings very quickly. At publication multi-millionaire film producer Howard Hughes bought the film rights to the novel. He hired Leo McCarey to direct and Ben Hecht to write the screenplay. Hughes biggest problem turned out to be that stars were extremely reluctant to appear in a film that attacked the Hollywood studio system. Hughes initially wanted to cast Jack Oakie and William Haines but Paramount and MGM refused to loan them out. Unable to secure a significant cast Hughes ended the production after spending over $100000 of 1930s dollars in its preparation. Vanguard Press hardcover books
193016010JNew York: Vanguard Press 1930. First Edition First Printing. A few small aging spots to cloth otherwise very good plus in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny chips and tears. Notoriously rare in dust jacket. The front cover colorful artwork depicts a scantily clad beautiful actress posed in recline on a film set with a director and film crew photographing her. Queer People is considered one of the true landmarks in the continuous evolution of the Hollywood novel. The novel’s take of the bizarre and seamy side of the life of Hollywood during its golden age is like no other work of fiction. In the 1976 reprint edition Budd Schulberg wrote “.in Queer People we have if not THE Hollywood novel - at least a truly seminal work on Hollywood in which may be found the seeds of at least three of the longer-lived Hollywood novels The Day of the Locust What Makes Sammy Run and The Last Tycoon.†The book was a scandalous sensation when published and went through numerous printings very quickly. At publication multi-millionaire film producer Howard Hughes bought the film rights to the novel. He hired Leo McCarey to direct and Ben Hecht to write the screenplay. Hughes biggest problem turned out to be that stars were extremely reluctant to appear in a film that attacked the Hollywood studio system. Hughes initially wanted to cast Jack Oakie and William Haines but Paramount and MGM refused to loan them out. Unable to secure a significant cast Hughes ended the production after spending over $100000 of 1930s dollars in its preparation. Vanguard Press hardcover books
