Worms in the Winecup - Bright, John

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Résumé :
An 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 on Un-American ac...

Biographie:
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 Gun (1971)....

Sommaire:

Chapter 1 Introduction by Patrick McGilligan
Chapter 2 A Foreword Written Afterward
Chapter 3 The Public Enemy: Dirt and Pay Dirt
Chapter 4 Farewell Stag for a Hollywood Tycoon
Chapter 5 Errol Flynn: Caliph of Bagdad
Chapter 6 The Great Profile Eroded
Chapter 7 Dollars and Sentiment and Pinkerton
Chapter 8 The Fixed Wheel
Chapter 9 The Horse of Honor
Chapter 10 Liberal Producer
Chapter 11 The Sad Boomerang of Good Intention
Chapter 12 An Alcoholic Not Anonymous
Chapter 13 Mystery Story en Passant
Chapter 14 Up with the Flag
Chapter 15 Hollywood Goes to War
Chapter 16 Winding Down
Chapter 17 The Road Back to a Different Kind of War
Chapter 18 Two Who Stood Up...Two Who Fell Down
Chapter 19 An End and a New Beginning
Chapter 20 Unhappy Farewell to Mexico
Chapter 21 Coda
Chapter 22 John Bright's Last Will and Testament
Chapter 23 John Bright-Storyteller by Casey Bright
Chapter 24 The Films of John Bright
Chapter 25 Index