I just came across an anecdote about Leigh Brackett and "No
Good From a Corpose" - and Raymond Chandler and "The Big
Sleep" - in a biography of Howard Hawks. Hawks and William
Faulkner are starting work on the screenplay for "The Big
Sleep", to star Bogart and Bacall, who are about become a
sensation in "To Have and Have Not". Hawks and Faulkner are
under great time pressure to prepare the script and start
shooting, so they can get the picture out relatively soon and
capitalize on the Bogart and Bacall phenomenon. Hawks wanted
someone to help him and Faulkner move things along,
particularly on dialogue (Faulkner was considered stronger on
structure). Chandler wasn't available, since he was under an
exclusive contract at another film studio. Hawks had just
read "No Good From a Corpose", liked it, had his secretary
call its author in for a meeting - and was quite surprised
when a short 28-year-old woman walked into his office for a
job interview. He gave her the job.
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