I'd Hate Myself in the Morning
A Memoir
Ring Lardner, Jr.'s memoir is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of an immensely popular and influential American writer, Lardner grew up swaddled in material and cultural privilege. After a memorable visit to Moscow in 1934, he worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for Hollywood where he served a bizarre apprenticeship with David O. Selznick, and won, at the age of 28, an Academy Award for the classic film, Woman of the Year, the first on-screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. In irresistibly readable pages (New Yorker), peopled by a cast including Carole Lombard, Louis B. Mayer, Dalton Trumbo, Marle…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63226-064-2
- EAN: 9781632260642
- Produktnummer: 22432626
- Verlag: Easton Studio Press, LLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'010 KB
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Ring Lardner Jr., the third son of a famous American writer, attended Andover and Princeton and in 1935, went to Hollywood to become a scriptwriter. In 1942 he cowrote, with Michael Kanin, the comedy Woman of the Year, which won the Academy Award for best original screenplay. Because of his refusal to reveal his beliefs and associations in 1947 before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Lardner was blacklisted in Hollywood and three years later, sentenced to a year in prison. During that time he began research on his novel THE ECSTACY OF OWEN MUIR (1954), a searing indictment of American society during the McCarthy era.In addition to his other books ALL FOR LOVE and THE LARDNERS; MY FAMILY REMEMBERED, Lardner wrote for The Nation, Esquire, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Among his screenwriting credits following his blacklisting are The Cincinnati Kid and M*A*S*H, the latter of which won the 1970 Grand Prix at Cannes.Victor S. Navasky has served as editor, publisher and now publisher emeritus of The Nation and presently at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs the Delacorte Center of Magazines and chairs the Columbia Journalism Review.
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