I Lost My Girlish Laughter

Name: I Lost My Girlish Laughter
Brand: Vintage
SKU: 9781984897763-PRUSDTR-US
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English • Age Adult - Adult

224 pages • 5.2 x 8.0 x 0.67 in

Approx. weight: 0.51 lb

Publication date: 05 Nov,2019

Barcode: 9781984897763 • Vintage

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Fiction: Humorous

Humorous fiction
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Fiction: general and literary

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By: Jane Allen, J. E. Smyth

A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system.

Madge Lawrence, fresh from New York City, lands a job as the personal secretary to the powerful Hollywood producer Sidney Brand (based on the legendary David O. Selznick). In a series of letters home, Western Union telegrams, office memos, Hollywood gossip newspaper items, and personal journal entries, we get served up the inside scoop on all the shenanigans, romances, backroom deals, and betrayals that go into making a movie.
The action revolves around the production of Brand's latest blockbuster, meant to be a star vehicle to introduce his new European bombshell (the real-life Marlene Dietrich). Nevermind that the actress can't act, Brands' negotiations with MGM to get Clark Gable to play the male lead are getting nowhere, and the Broadway play he's bought for the screenplay is reworked so that it is unrecognizable to its author. In this delicious satire of the film business, one is never very far from the truth of what makes Hollywood tick and why we all love it.