Scoundrels & Spitballers: Writers and Hollywood in the 1930s

By Philippe Garnier
 
Scoundrels & Spitballers: Writers and Hollywood in the 1930s transports readers back to an era before Wall Street profiteers took control of Hollywood, when the place was America’s last frontier boom town, but not yet a fully fledged industry. Like a determined cultural detective, renowned journalist Philippe Garnier combines years of insatiably curious research with invaluable first-person interviews to provide a richly detailed and ribald excursion through the studio backlots, barrooms, and boulevards that would rapidly grow into the Dream Factory.