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The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic account of Hollywood's inner workings--voted one of the century's top 100 journalistic works and called by Hemingway "much better than most novels." In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was... read more

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The making of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie "The Red Badge of Courage" based on the Stephen Crane novel about the Civil War, was preceded by routine dis- about its production plans from the columnist Louella Parsons ("John Huston is writing a screen treat of Stephen Crane's classic, "The Red Badge of Courage' as a possibility for an M-G-M picture."); from the columnist Hedda Hopper ("Metro has an option on "The Red Badge of Courage' and John Huston's working up a budget for it.

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  1. Lillian Ross (Author)
 

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