Mario Taboada wrote: I read that he didn't like to talk about
his work for Hollywood. The few comments he made about it
were negative
(he did say that the money was good). A big fish in a filthy
pond, drowning in whisky. A pure Southerner doing the
California breezy, a bad fit.
********** Woody has probably written the definitive text on
the Hollywood effect on hardboiled and noir writers but from
my limited knowledge, very few novel writers that go to
scriptwriting have much good to say about it, whether they
made money or not. Horace McCoy wrote a lot of scripts, but
denigrated the experience in his I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME
(1938). I think James Cain despised it, too. Edward Anderson
didn't have enough luck in California to even call himself a
scritwriter. If I recall from Gruber's PULP JUNGLE, I think
even Carroll John Daly gave it a shot. Chandler did some
scriptwriting too, I know. Although I haven't specifically
heard what he thought about it, I can assume he hated it. But
then again, there wasn't much he approved of anyway.
miker
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