Such Mad Fun: Ambition and Glamour in Hollywood's Golden Age - Hardcover

Cutler, Robin R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0997482311 ISBN 13: 9780997482317

Publisher: View Tree Press, 2016

Synopsis

What determines who a woman will become? Jane Hall was an orphan at fifteen and a “literary prodigy” according to the press. How did this spirited young girl from an Arizona mining town become a Depression-era debutante, a successful author of magazine fiction, and a screenwriter at Hollywood’s most glamorous studio? At Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Jane wrote the story and the script for the “best social comedy of 1939,” These Glamour Girls, and established a lively camaraderie with F. Scott Fitzgerald, who worked in the office next door to hers. But Jane’s ambition conflicted with the expectations of her family, her friends, and the era in which she lived. Drawing on her mother’s diaries and scores of letters, historian Robin Cutler takes us on an unforgettable journey through 1930s Manhattan and Hollywood as Jane wrestles with who she was meant to be. Such Mad Fun is a coming-of-age story set in a decade that has surprising parallels with American life today.  For much more:  www.robinrcutler.com.

 

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About the Author

Robin Cutler's early life was split between Manhattan and a farm near a tiny town in Virginia called Casanova. An only child, she never felt like one because of the menagerie collected by her mother, Jane Hall, a former screenwriter at MGM, who had the best years of her life before Robin was born. But that's the Such Mad Fun story. Robin's siblings included a rescued ocelot, multiple German Shepherds, farm cats, snooty cats, and a screech owl (Sidney), who could not fly but traveled on Eastern Airlines in a modified Nantucket basket. In his salad days, her dad, Robert F. Cutler, founded and managed the popular Suffern County Theater. Also before she was born.Robin decided she wanted to be a historian in the ninth grade. She grew up in a world without any modern digital devices and was happiest in the stacks of various libraries. Her love of books led her to earning a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. But most of her future career would be as a public historian. Highlights have included working for the National Endowment for Humanities when author Lynne Cheney was chairman, co-producing an Emmy-nominated dramatic series for PBS, working with several Native American tribes to chronicle their histories and culture on film and video, publishing three nonfiction books, two of which took way too long to research; these are featured on her website along with galleries, blog posts and trailers for classic films related to the story in Such Mad Fun. Search for Robin R Cutler.

Edition details

• Publisher: View Tree Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997482311
• ISBN 13: 9780997482317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328