Screenwriter is a series of enlightening
and entertaining interviews with a dozen
of the top screenwriters from Holly-
wood's golden age. While their names, in
some cases, have remained uncelebrated,
their work includes scores of the most
famous films of all time-Duck Soup, The
Public Enemy, The Thirty- Nine Steps, Top
Hat, The Wizard of Oz, How Green Was
My Valley, The Prisoner of Zenda, The
Wolf Man, and The Man Who Knew Too
Much, to name just a few.
The individual writers are a varied, col
orful, and highly entertaining group.
They include Charles Bennett, author of
Alfred Hitchcock's first talkie, Blackmail,
and six other Hitchcock films John
Bright, out of gangland Chicago to write
James Cagney's first hit, The Public
Enemy, and Mae West's first, She Done
Him Wrong; Allan Scott, screenwriter of
the entire Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers
series; Curt Siodmak, refugee trom Nazı
Germany, specialist in horror and sci-fi,
and author of scripts for The Wolf Man,
I Walked with a Zombie, and Donovan's
Brain; Catherine Turney, Warner's top
woman writer, author of vehicles for
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Errol
lynn, among them Mildred Pierce.
Almost none of these twelve men and
women have been interviewed at length
in any publication.
The unforgettable stories they tell range
trom the hilarious to the bitter, from
tales of roistering with the Marx
Brothers, drunken shootouts with John
Huston and practical joking with Hitch-
cock, to murderous run-ins with Al
Capone and blacklisting by the right-
Wing witch hunters of the McCarthy era.
Above all, their remembrances give the
reader a unique and thorough look at the
life of the screenwriter in the big studio
era. Together, they tell how the screen
classics of their day were conceived and
took their final shape.
llustrated with over 100 photographs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A graduate of New York University's In
stitute of Film and Television, Lee Server
has written numerous articles, interviews,
and reviews tor such publications as Film
Comment, Take One, and Films in
Review. His credits as a tilmmaker in-
clude a variety of short films and two
full-length documentaries, You Must
Remember This and the forthcoming Ear
ly Hitchcock. He has lived in Europe,
Southeast Asia, and Southern California,
and currently resides in New York City.

Jacket design by Robert Reed.
Text design by Frank Mabood.
The Main Street Press
William Case House
Pittstown, New Jersey 08867
ISBN 1-55562-018-3

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