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Title:

Backstory : interviews with screenwriters of Hollywood's golden age / edited and with an introduction by Pat McGilligan.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c1986

Description:

viii, 382 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Screenwriters--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Interviews.
Motion picture industry--Los Angeles.--Los Angeles.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Motion picture plays--Technique.
Motion picture authorship.
Scénaristes--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Entretiens.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biographies.
Writers, to 1985 - Personal observations - Collections--Los Angeles--Hollywood--Cinema films--Screenplays--Writers, to 1985 - Personal observations - Collections
Scenarioschrijvers.

Other Authors:

McGilligan, Patrick.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 349-364. Includes indexes.

Contents:

Charles Bennett : first-class constructionist -- W.R. Burnett : the outsider -- Niven Busch : a doer of things -- James M. Cain : tough guy -- Lenore Coffee : easy smiler, easy weeper -- Philip Dunne : fine cabinetmaker -- Julius J. Epstein : a king of comedy -- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett : perfectionists -- Norman Krasna : the Woolworth's touch -- John Lee Mahin : team player -- Richard Maibaum : a pretense of seriousness -- Casey Robinson : master adaptor -- Allan Scott : a nice life -- Donald Ogden Stewart : politically conscious.

ISBN:

9780520056893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520056892 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520056664 (alk. paper)
0520056663 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

85028949

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)