"if Hollywood Is Dead Or Dying As A Moviemaker, Perhaps The Following Are Some Of The Reasons."
November, 1960
My first bosses in Hollywood (1925) were Jesse Lasky and B. P. Schulberg, heads of Paramount Studios. I wrote an opus for them called Underworld – the first gangster picture. Hector Turnbull produced it. George Bancroft, Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent starred in it. Messrs. Lasky, Schulberg, Turnbull, Bancroft, Brook and Miss Brent are dead.When I look at Hollywood, I see chiefly a line of hearses carting off heroes and heroines, wazirs and earth-shakers. What a noise they made, and what fast exit...
