Like most people in Hollywood, the things she told writers had only a slight grain of truth. But she did something most of them didn’t: she turned her stories into a bestselling book called The Cradle of the Deep. To find out how big a liar she was, read my post Adventure Girl.

Thanks Vicki!

I'm a Keaton fan (I wrote a whole book about his crew). Plenty has been written about him already. If I were somehow the boss of Movies Silently, I would say, "More reviews of Nordic movies I haven't heard of please!" But I am not, so I will thank you for the work you do.

Oh for goodness sake. The whole point of being a blogger is to write about whatever you want to write about. If they want Keaton reviews, they can write them themselves and put them on their own blogs.

Meanwhile, he held women readers in contempt, blaming them for all that was wrong with fiction. Then again, very little was up to his standards: he called Dickens a “blight.” Because of that, it bothers me a whole lot less that he’s been almost completely forgotten.

I called my article “Hollywood’s Insecurities.” If you want to find out who won, and which runner-up leaked to the press that he actually won, you’ll have to visit my blog.

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This month I wrote about a forerunner to the Academy Awards. In 1924, studio head Adolf Zukor invented an award to be given to the writer of the best story a film was based on, probably because ‘serious’ writers looked down on the movies.

Every month I look at what she wrote about 100 years ago and I do some research to find out more about her most interesting stories.