Todd Mason wrote:
She was a collaborator on THE BIG SLEEP, with Jules Furthman
and
(apocryphally?) the apparently useless William Faulkner.
She's listed as sole adapter of THE LONG GOODBYE.
********** Apparently Faulkner was not a total waste. The
story I heard was that when Hemingway refused to work with
Hawks on the movie adaptation of TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, Hawks
told him, "I'll get Faulkner to do it; he can write better
than you can anyway." Maybe it was just a case of sour
grapes?
miker
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