Budd Schulberg, Harvey Breit
Loosely based on the life of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jason Robards made a sensation on Broadway in this exploration of the "lost generation," garnering multiple awards with Robards named Best Actor of the season as Manley Halliday. Once, with wife Jere, the toast of the "jazz-age" set, beautiful and talented; they have now both slid into a dissolute life. Offered a job writing a big budget studio picture, Halliday whose contempt for the commercialism of Hollywood has driven him to self-loathing and alcoholism, reasons the money will get him out of debt. While Jere convalesces in a New York sanitarium, Manley takes the film and finds himself with a collaborator, one of the "new generation" who neither knows nor cares of his once "glittering" reputation.
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BUDD SCHULBERG was the son of B. P. Schulberg, the production chief of Paramount Pictures during the 1920s and ‘30s. His first literary success was the 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run?, the rags-to-riches tale of a Hollywood screenwriter. Schulberg served in the Navy during W ...
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