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Author:

Allen, Jane (Novelist), author.

Title:

I lost my girlish laughter / Jane Allen (Silvia Schulman and Jane Shore) ; introduction by J. E. Smyth.

Edition:

First Vintage Books edition.

Publisher:

Vintage Booksa division of Penguin Random House LLC,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxv, 192 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction.
Motion picture industry--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
Satirical literature.
Epistolary fiction.

Other Authors:

Shore, Jane (Novelist), author.
Schulman, Sylvia, 1920- author.
Smyth, J. E., 1977- writer of introduction.

Notes:

"Originally published by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1938."--Title page 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:

In this thinly-disguised pseudonymous satire, Madge Lawrence is a "good girl" trying to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As secretary to a big-time producer, Madge learns the movie business from the inside. The story unfolds in a series of documents--memos, telegrams, newspaper items, and letters from Madge to a former colleague in New York.

ISBN:

1984897764
9781984897763

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1090753342

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)