Ralph Carston and Mona Matthews are two Hollywood transplants. They both want to be actors, and share a bungalow while looking for work. Ralph dreams of being a star, but nobody will hire him with his thick Georgia accent. Even the agent who paid for his ticket to Hollywood won’t see him. Then Mona achieves a little local notoriety when she mouths off in court and is jailed— then quickly released by a judge who’s got his eye on re-election. That’s when Ralph meets Mrs. Smithers. She wants to meet the woman who called the judge a son of a bitch to his face, and invites them both to a party that night. Mrs. Smithers knows everyone in the business and likes to help young struggling male actors. She’s got a friend of Mona’s living with her now. But she makes it very obvious that she’s just as interested in furthering Ralph’s career as well… Black Gat #86
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Horace Stanley McCoy was born on April 14, 1897, in Pegram, Tennessee. His father was a traveling salesman, and as a teenager McCoy joined him for awhile before enlisting in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWI. Returning from the war he settled in Dallas where he began a career in journalism. More interested in storytelling than reporting, McCoy quickly switched to a fictional career, publishing more than a dozen detective stories in Black Mask in the 1930s. He moved to Hollywood in 1931 to try acting, but had more success as a script writer. McCoy’s first novel, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, set during the Depression-era dance marathons, was published in 1935. At the height of his writing career in 1948 he wrote the hardboiled classic Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and later that year suffered a mild heart attack. McCoy died from a third heart attack at his home in Beverly Hills on December 15, 1955.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ralph Carston and Mona Matthews are two Hollywood transplants. They both want to be actors, and share a bungalow while looking for work. Ralph dreams of being a star, but nobody will hire him with his thick Georgia accent. Even the agent who paid for his ticket to Hollywood won't see him. Then Mona achieves a little local notoriety when she mouths off in court and is jailed- then quickly released by a judge who's got his eye on re-election.That's when Ralph meets Mrs. Smithers. She wants to meet the woman who called the judge a son of a bitch to his face, and invites them both to a party that night. Mrs. Smithers knows everyone in the business and likes to help young struggling male actors. She's got a friend of Mona's living with her now. But she makes it very obvious that she's just as interested in furthering Ralph's career as well. Black Gat #86 Horace McCoy is best known as the author of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, filmed in 1969 by Sydney Pollack with Jane Fonda and Gig Young. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798886012163
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ralph Carston and Mona Matthews are two Hollywood transplants. They both want to be actors, and share a bungalow while looking for work. Ralph dreams of being a star, but nobody will hire him with his thick Georgia accent. Even the agent who paid for his ticket to Hollywood won't see him. Then Mona achieves a little local notoriety when she mouths off in court and is jailed- then quickly released by a judge who's got his eye on re-election.That's when Ralph meets Mrs. Smithers. She wants to meet the woman who called the judge a son of a bitch to his face, and invites them both to a party that night. Mrs. Smithers knows everyone in the business and likes to help young struggling male actors. She's got a friend of Mona's living with her now. But she makes it very obvious that she's just as interested in furthering Ralph's career as well. Black Gat #86 Horace McCoy is best known as the author of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, filmed in 1969 by Sydney Pollack with Jane Fonda and Gig Young. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798886012163
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