Backstory 2: Interviews With Screenwriters Of The 1940S And 1950S; Author: Mcgilligan, Pat; Paperback

Author: Mcgilligan, Pat
Paperback; 42 Illustrations
426 pages
Published: June 1997
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520209087
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Backstory is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age, fourteen studio scribes active in later decades reminisce about their fifty-plus years of creating and scripting classic movies. Richard Brooks, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Garson Kanin, Arthur Laurents, Ben Maddow, Stewart Stern, Daniel Taradash, and Philip Yordan are among the fascinating and important figures included.In this lively collection of interviews they contribute useful writing tips, radical correctives to screen history and industry folklore, and just plain colorful gossip. As a whole, the interviews provide a compelling biographical close-upPart of the Backstory series which chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollywood screenwriters in their own words, this volume focuses on the history of American screenwriting of the 1940s and 1950s. The 14 interviews are with such writers as Richard Brooks, Betty Comden and Adolph Green.