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Worms in the Winecup
John Bright
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Description for Worms in the Winecup
Hardback. This text provides a commentary of Hollywood and the motion picture industry, with portraits of Darryl F. Zanuck, Mae West, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore, B.P. Schulberg, Walter Wanger, John Howard Lawson, and Elia Kazan. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; APF; BGB; DSBH; DSG; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic gangster drama starring James Cagney. The book provides a vivid, often savage, commentary on Hollywood and the motion picture industry, with uncompromising portraits of Darryl F. Zanuck, Mae West, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore, B. P. Schulberg, Walter Wanger, John Howard Lawson, Elia Kazan, and countless others, including his writing partners, Kubec Glasmon and Robert Tasker. Bright writes of the Communist Party in Hollywood, the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, and the House Committee ... Read more
Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic gangster drama starring James Cagney. The book provides a vivid, often savage, commentary on Hollywood and the motion picture industry, with uncompromising portraits of Darryl F. Zanuck, Mae West, Errol Flynn, John Barrymore, B. P. Schulberg, Walter Wanger, John Howard Lawson, Elia Kazan, and countless others, including his writing partners, Kubec Glasmon and Robert Tasker. Bright writes of the Communist Party in Hollywood, the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, and the House Committee ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810844254
SKU
V9780810844254
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About John Bright
John Bright was a major figure in the history of American screenwriting. Among the major Hollywood films with which Bright was involved are Taxi (1932), The Crowd Roars (1932), If I Had A Million (1932), She Done Him Wrong (1933), Our Daily Bread (1934), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), The Brave Bulls (1951), and Johnny Got His ... Read more
Reviews for Worms in the Winecup
I thoroughly enjoyed Bright's book. It jumps off the page.
Clancy Sigal, Novelist (Going Away) and Screenwriter (Frida and In Love and War) Entertaining and revealing...A fascinating glimpse at the underbelly of Golden Age Hollywood.
Film Review
Clancy Sigal, Novelist (Going Away) and Screenwriter (Frida and In Love and War) Entertaining and revealing...A fascinating glimpse at the underbelly of Golden Age Hollywood.
Film Review