#BOTD 1893 – 1967 #DorothyParker, 73, US poet, author, critic, satirist, blacklisted screenwriter.
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"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
#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
The Breaking Point (1950) #JohnGarfield
#DorothyParker "remembering her elitist 'Algonquin Round Table' days, where a 'circle of friends', mostly pretentious, but intellectual columnists, with barbed like wit, like her own, who were fuelled with alcohol, to hide their despair."
Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1995)
Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle (1995)
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