This memoir of a reporter-turned-screenwriter follows Lardner's experiences through the Hollywood contract system of the 1940s and 1950s and its demise. It also tells how Lardner's membership with the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party garnered him a federal-prison sentence and a place on the Hollywood blacklist. Photos.
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This memoir of a reporter-turned-screenwriter follows Lardner's experiences through the Hollywood contract system of the 1940s and 1950s and its demise. It also tells how Lardner's membership with the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party garnered him a federal-prison sentence and a place on the Hollywood blacklist. Photos.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Publisher:
New York, NY, U.S.A. : Avalon New York, 2000
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
8367710596
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Seller's Description:
ISBN: 156025338X, trade paeprback, no printing stated, Fine Minus/pictorial wraps; trace of light wear to covers and cover edges, the memoir of the academy award winning screenwriter who was a member of the Communist Party and was jailed after being blacklisted by the House Un-American Committee in the 1950s, illustrated with photographs, 8vo., 198 pages.,
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x5x1; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light soiling on edges of text block. Dj lightly shelf worn around edges with small scuff marks. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
