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O riginal Screen Story?
Russell Holman, twelfth floor of the Paramount Building, New York City.
Ye editors will send for your book. What's more, they'll send for you. They'll ship you west by fast plane and drop you via parachute behind a shiny new desk at Writer's Row. Tiffany Thayer is there, swinging his shingle at Paramount. Vicki Baum is on the Metro lot. Bruce Manning is busy at Columbia. You read their books. "One Woman." "Grand Hotel." "Party Wire." Yep, they sold 'em for the cinema.
Got a book ? A good one ? The studio will buy it and hire you to adapt it.
The studio will buy your short story.
That Academy prize winner, "It Happened One Night," with Colbert and Gable, was a short story authored by Samuel Hopkins Adams. "Little Miss Marker" with Shirley Temple was a short story for which please credittitle Damon Runyon. "Crime Without Passion." "Desirable" with Jean Muir. "Rain," by Somerset Maugham, first fell from the heavens as a short story, became a
play, a picture, and again a play with Tallulah Bankhead. The list of short stories sold for the screen is as long as your good right arm. The studio will buy your song.
For Grace Moore. For Jeanette MacDonald. Rudy Vallee. Bing Crosby.
Have you another "Blue Moon?" "June in January?" "Believe Me, Beloved?"
Take it down to Tin Pan Alley. Take along an armoured truck. You'll need it to bring back that heavy do re mi.
But there's a catch. Your song must be sung. Your short story must be published. Your book must be printed. Your play must be produced.
You've an original manuscript?
Sorry ! The studio does not buy originals — from unknowns. It returns unopened, unsolicited manuscripts. And if you're thinking of going to Hollywood to break into the writing racket, take along your sense of humor and a two-way ticket, there and back. (Continued on page 61)
Russell Holman, right, eastern production manager of Paramount; and Bogart Rogers, extreme right, western story head of the same company.
Bertram Bloch, eastern story head for mighty Metro, left, below. Sam Marx, below, western story head of M-G-M.
If another "Morocco" could be found to co-star Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper, everybody would be happy!
'The Thin Man" you'd