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Making the Sausage – Hollywood Style

The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg

July 18, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

cbr17bingo Arts Schulberg, the son of a successful Hollywood producer, is probably best known for his screenplays (On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd), but he started as a novelist with What Makes Sammy Run?, about a Hollywood publicist. This book follows about ten years later, and is the thinly fictionalized story of an ill-fated trip Schulberg made with F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Dartmouth.  Fitzgerald was nearing the end of his life and was trying to scrape together cash by working on screenplays for […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Actually true story, Budd Schulberg, cbr17bingo, College musical, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Factory Hollywood, Love on Ice, Major drinking, Old School Hollywood, Perils of hero worship

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Actually true story, Budd Schulberg, cbr17bingo, College musical, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Factory Hollywood, Love on Ice, Major drinking, Old School Hollywood, Perils of hero worship ·
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Which, of Course, Features a Generic Redhead on the Cover

The Case of the Borrowed Brunette by Erle Stanley Gardner

August 16, 2024 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

  cbr16bingo vintage So the forties were boom years in Hollywood, and everybody was looking for a break.  Starlets were a dime a dozen, so when an ad appeared offering a job to young ladies of a certain appearance and some very specific measurements, stating that if they would hang around various street corners for an hour, wearing specified clothes, they might pick up a job.  What can it hurt, right? Mason just happens to pick up on the observation, as he and Della are […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: 1940s Los Angeles, cbr16bingo vintage, Erle Stanley Gardner, Feisty Old Broad, Mistaken Identites, Old School Hollywood, perry mason, Starlets

elderberrywine's CBR16 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: 1940s Los Angeles, cbr16bingo vintage, Erle Stanley Gardner, Feisty Old Broad, Mistaken Identites, Old School Hollywood, perry mason, Starlets ·
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