The Golden West: Hollywood Stories

by Daniel Fuchs

Book Overview

In the spring of 1937, Brooklyn's Daniel Fuchs, twenty-seven years old and already the author of three remarkable novels (now collected as The Brooklyn Novels), came to Hollywood to bang out a treatment of one of his short stories. His thirteen-week contract turned into a permanent residence--and a lifelong love affair with the movie business. Fuchs worked with the best: Warner and M-G-M and RKO, Wilder and Huston and Joe Pasternak,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574232053
• ISBN13: 9781574232059
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An intriguing presentation by an industry insider

John Updike provides the introduction to The Golden West: Hollywood Stories, a blend of autobiography and an account of writing for the movies. It was 1937 when nearly-thirty author Fuchs came to Hollywood to provide a play of one of his novels - a contract which would introduce him to a magical city in which he was to spend the rest of his life. Fuchs worked with some of Hollywood's best writers and actors, producing screenplays and prose: The Golden West gathers his writings about his movie business encounters from 1937-39 and again in 1989, making for an intriguing presentation by an industry insider.