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2019

Format:	Book
Author:	Allen, Jane (Novelist), author.
Title:	I lost my girlish laughter / Jane Allen (Silvia Schulman and Jane Shore) ; introduction by J. E. Smyth.
Edition:	First Vintage Books edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
Description:	xxv, 192 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	In this thinly-disguised pseudonymous satire, Madge Lawrence is a "good girl" trying to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood. As secretary to a big-time producer, Madge learns the movie business from the inside. The story unfolds in a series of documents--memos, telegrams, newspaper items, and letters from Madge to a former colleague in New York.
Subjects:	Motion picture industry -- Fiction. Young women -- Fiction. Nineteen thirties -- Fiction. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genre:	Satirical literature. Epistolary fiction.
Other Author:	Shore, Jane (Novelist), author. Schulman, Sylvia, 1920- author. Smyth, J. E., 1977- writer of introduction.
Notes:	"Originally published by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 1938."--Title page verso. "The classic Hollywood novel of the 1930s"--Cover. "Jane Allen" is a pseudonym for Jane Shore, a professional writer, and Sylvia Schulman, who had worked as a secretary for David O. Selznick.
ISBN:	9781984897763 1984897764 9781984897763 1984897764
Other Number:	1090753342
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	816243
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Call Number:	FICTION Allen

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