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#BOTD 1893 – 1967 #DorothyParker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.
"What if there were a list? What if it meant, our finest actors weren't allowed to act, our best writers weren't allowed to write, our funniest comedians weren't allowed to make us laugh ..?"

#JohnGarfield 1913 - 1952 (aged 39) #DorothyParker 1893 - 1967 #LucilleBall 1911 - 1989
"Harry Morgan, was an ordinary working man until the Depression. Economic forces drove him into the black-market, a runner between Cuba and Florida. But it ain't easy money." Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not (originally film 1944)

The Breaking Point (1950) #JohnGarfield
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#BOTD 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.

Screenplay co-writer: A Star is Born (1937) Sweethearts * Trade Winds * Week-End for Three * #Hitchcock Saboteur * Smash-Up Story of a Woman * The Fan (1949 Lady Windermere's Fan)
#BOTD 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.

"Story of a rising nightclub singer who marries another singer. As his career takes off, she falls into alcoholism, giving up her career for him."

Smash-Up Story of a Woman (1947)
#BOTD 1893 – 1967 Dorothy Parker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.

When a young actress arrives in Hollywood a chance encounter places her under the wing of older actor Norman Maine.

The original non musical drama. (1937)
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