SPRINKLED WITH RUBY DUST: A Literary and Hollywood Memoir

Swanson, H. N.

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ISBN 10: 0446514292 ISBN 13: 9780446514293

Published by Warner Books Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1989

Language: English

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SPRINKLED WITH RUBY DUST: A Literary and Hollywood Memoir

Publisher

Warner Books Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0446514292

ISBN 13

9780446514293

Binding

Hardcover

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First Edition, First Printing

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Hollywood's most famous literary agent recounts his career representing such twentieth century literary luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner in their efforts to find work as script-writers in Hollywood's booming, lucrative film industry

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Now nearly 90, "Swanie," founder of College Humor magazine in 1923, recalls working with Benchley, Mencken, Perelman and Noel Coward, suggesting the title The Great Gatsby to Fitzgerald, and meeting or avoiding Hemingway, Sandburg, Hearst and Al Capone. After producing and scripting films for RKO, he became an agent, and for the next 55 years represented Cain, Chandler, Faulkner, Hailey, O'Hara and Luke Short. Sprinkled with anecdotes, this brief, superficial memoir mixes sketchy chronology with high jinks, references to alcohol and business lunches, and stories about Goldwyn, Cohn, Mayer, Selnick, Thalberg, Warner, Zanuck, Disney and Hitchcock. Photos not seen by PW.
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