The Golden West

by Fuchs, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781574232059
• ISBN10: 1574232053
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-25
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Pr

Summary

In the spring of 1937, Daniel Fuchs, twenty-seven years old and the author of three acclaimed novels of Brooklyn tenement life, came to Hollywood to bang out a treatment of one of his short stories. His thirteen-week contract turned into a permanent residence-and a lifelong love affair. "Writing for the movies was fine," he would later recall, "the freedom and fun, the hard work," but even finer were the movies themselves-team-built, mass-market miracles, "brisk and full of urgent meaning." Finest of all were the people-hustling producers, inscrutable directors, cracker-jack screenwriters, and charismatic stars-their virtues and flaws and egos and disappointments all visible in high relief "because the sunlight over everything was so clear and brilliant."

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
John Updike
Writing for the Movies: A Letter from Hollywood, 1962	3	(20)
Dream City, or The Drugged Lake (1937)	23	(6)
A Hollywood Diary (1938)	29	(10)
Florida (1939)	39	(14)
The Golden West (1954)	53	(22)
Triplicate (1979)	75	(56)
The Aftershock: A Letter from Hollywood, 1971	131	(10)
West of the Rockies (1971)	141	(94)
Strictly Movie: A Letter from Hollywood, 1989	235	(20)
Sources and Acknowledgments	255