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Item Information       Booklist Review     More Content     More by this author     Allen, Jane (Novelist)     Subjects     Motion picture industry -- Fiction.     Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction.     Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.     Secretaries -- Fiction.     Young women -- Fiction.     Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Allen, Jane (Novelist)       by title:      I lost my girlish la...       by call number:      FICTION ALL     Search the Web     Allen, Jane (Novelist)     Motion picture industry -- Fiction.     Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction.     Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.     Secretaries -- Fiction.     Young women -- Fiction.     Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.     Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

I lost my girlish laughter / Jane Allen (Silvia Schulman and Jane Shore) ; introduction by J. E. Smyth. by Allen, Jane (Novelist) Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. Call #: FICTION ALL Subjects Motion picture industry -- Fiction.   Motion picture producers and directors -- Fiction.   Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.   Secretaries -- Fiction.   Young women -- Fiction.   Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.   Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781984897763 (trade pbk) Edition:  1st Vintage Books ed. Description:  xxv, 192 p. ; 21 cm. Notes:  "Originally published by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1938."--T.p. verso. "The classic Hollywood novel of the 1930s"--Cover. "Jane Allen" is a pseudonym for Jane Shore, a professional writer, and Sylvia Schulman, who had worked as a secretary for David O. Selznick. Summary:  "A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter, is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system. Madge Lawrence, fresh from New York City, lands a job as the personal secretary to the powerful Hollywood producer Sidney Brand. In a series of letters home, Western Union telegrams, office memos, Hollywood gossip newspaper items, and personal journal entries, we get served up the inside scoop on all the shenanigans, romances, backroom deals, and betrayals that go into making a movie. The action revolves around the production of Brand's latest blockbuster, meant to be a star vehicle to introduce his new European bombshell (based on Marlene Dietrich). Nevermind that the actress can't act, Brands' negotiations with MGM to get Clark Gable to play the male lead are getting nowhere, and the Broadway play he's bought for the screenplay is reworked so that it is unrecognizable to its author. In this delicious satire of the film business, one is never very far from the truth of what makes Hollywood tick and why we all love it."--Publisher. Genre:  Epistolary fiction. Historical fiction. Humorous fiction. Satire. Literary fiction. Other authors:  Shore, Jane (Novelist). Schulman, Sylvia, 1920- Smyth, J. E., 1977- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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