Hollywood

1938 · 22696E — London: Faber and Faber 1938. First Edition - British. A used and handled copy with some tape marks at the endpapers a bit of fading to the cloth at the spine some rubbing and a few tiny edge tears without dust jacket. A classic Hollywood novel published under the pseudonym of Jane Shore and Silvia Schulman who had been employed as a personal secretary to famed producer David O. Selznick in the mid-1930’s but had left her position to marry screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. from whom she divorced in 1945. The narrative of the story is obviously based on Schulman’s experiences as an innocent in Hollywood and her adventures with Selznick and Lardner. It was no secret that Selznick was outraged by the book’s publication and tried unsuccessfully to prevent Orson Welles from adapting it for broadcast on January 27 1939 on the CBS radio program Campbell Playhouse. Faber and Faber hardcover books