Tag: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT

June 24, 2015 / Vickie Lester

Lauren Bacall makes the cover of Harper’s Bazaar and catches the eye of Howard Hawks in Hollywood…

June 19, 2015 / Vickie Lester

“Can working for the movies hurt your own writing?” Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 12, William Faulkner

INTERVIEWER Can working for the movies hurt your own writing? FAULKNER Nothing can injure a man’s writing if he’s a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there’s not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he…

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August 13, 2014 / Vickie Lester

I’ve noticed a lot of people looking for this HD scan of Lauren Bacall in her first role…To Have And Have Not

April 16, 2014 / Vickie Lester

A Trove of Faulkner Film Scripts – New York Times

”There are misconceptions about Faulkner as a screenwriter,” Mr. Brodsky said. ”Actually, he worked very hard on the scripts. What he didn’t like was that the films were never made. The old joke – that he asked the studio if he could write at home, that they thought he meant…

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May 7, 2013 / Vickie Lester

BOGART AND BACALL’S WEDDING

A friend asked me in the comments (http://skepperson.com/) if there were any similarities between the chapters of the novel I was posting and the real story of Bogart and Bacall. She asking if a story element, “sympathy as an aphrodisiac”, came into play with Bacall’s feeling for Bogart. I thought…

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