What was your particular process when writing and – later – revising IIHK? As you wrote the novel did some parts come easier than others? And were any aspects heavily revised? Now you’re making me work! Let’s see, I finished the first draft of the book a little over two…
Tag: Hollywood behind the scenes
Once upon a time, in Hollywood’s Golden Era, there lived a photographer named Clarence Sinclair Bull who made it his business while at MGM to capture starlight. His portraits were legendary, and so were those who sat for them. Like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich… Now, there is a lot…
Poet, Michelle Bitting, remembers her Great Grandmother, character actress of the Golden Era in: NOTES TO THE BELOVED (available on Amazon.com) Beryl Mercer, Actress (b.1882—d.1939) Time was you could stroll down Hollywood Boulevard and catch Great Grandma’s name flaming every cherry marquee. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Cagney’s…
Whatever, or whoever, was the cause of her sudden twist of fortune, Anne wasn’t disembarking in Los Angeles. The travel itinerary from the studio specified her arrival in Palm Springs. Having flown in from slushy, dingy, frigid New York City in the middle of February she walked outside the terminal.…