Spider boy : a scenario for a moving picture

Date:

1928.

Author:

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

PS 3543 A653 S7 LOCAL

Publisher:

A.A. Knopf

Abstract:

1928. Playwright Ambrose Deacon suffers from acute diffidence. His one hit Broadway play sends him to Hollywood where he meets moguls (Herbert Ringrose, Ben Griesheimer) and the screen goddess Imperia Starling, and he doesn't know how to say no. One of the first comic novels about Hollywood.

Physical Description:

297 pages ; 20 cm

Subjects:

Motion pictures Fiction, American fiction 20th century, American fiction, and Motion pictures

Genres/Forms:

American fiction, Fiction, Fiction. lcgft, and Annotations (Provenance) 20th century. rbprov CtY-BR

Chronological Terms:

1900-1999 fast

Geographic Terms:

Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fiction and California Los Angeles Hollywood