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Tag: Hollywood

Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell

Listen to Radio Play by the Parker-Campbell Team

Posted on May 28, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

June is the anniversary month of the passing of both Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell. It will be a good time to revisit a little-known chapter of their lives, a radio play they co-wrote in 1939 that was never collected into a book or magazine. The anniversary of Alan’s death is June 14, 1963;…

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700 Dorothy Parker Words You Never Read Before About Hollywood

Posted on January 7, 2020January 7, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

It is Hollywood awards show season, so this is the perfect time to uncover a long-lost Dorothy Parker book review about the town that she loathed so much. This incredible find is the review of the classic What Makes Sammy Run? written by Budd Schulberg. Parker wrote the review for PM, a left-leaning New York…

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1953 Hollywood

In Lost 1953 Speech, Dorothy Parker Rips Hollywood

Posted on March 6, 2017March 7, 2017 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

The year 1953 was a major one in the life of Dorothy Parker. She was living in Manhattan again after years spent in California. In June she was subpoenaed by Senator Joseph McCarthy, along with Lillian Hellman and Rockwell Kent. On August 22 Parker turned sixty. In October her last Broadway play, The Ladies of…

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1932 When Dorothy Parker Met Garbo

Posted on December 29, 2014April 28, 2016 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

With the publication of The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press) on Jan. 6, I’m publishing more of my research files online. This interview with Dorothy Parker took place months before her marriage to Alan Campbell, and before she made her second attempt at Hollywood screenwriting in late 1934. This story…

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