tstock@concentric.net wrote:
> I'm sure you have discussed this long before I
joined the list, but I was
> interested to discover there was only one female
author on my long list:
> Dorothy Hughes.
Leigh Brackett, who was on my list, is female. But that was
easy to miss. Howard Hawks was fooled. After reading her
classic HB novel NO GOOD FROM A CORPSE, he decided "this guy"
would be perfect to write the screenplay for his film version
of Chandler's THE BIG SLEEP. When she showed up in his
office, he realized his mistake, but he hired her anyway, and
he liked her work so much she ended up writing five more
movies for him.
BobT
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