EPISODE · Sep 1, 2019 · 59 MIN
Enjoy Author's Playhouse - Volume 7 from Ben Hecht, Ben Luchen Ferman
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Author's Playhouse - Volume 7 Author: Ben Hecht, Ben Luchen Ferman Narrator: Clarence Hartnell, William Everett Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire. Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce.But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing. On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis. This series produced some real gems from all manner of writers as their short stories and plays were remade for a radio audience. With high production values courtesy of the money from the shows sponsor, Philip Morris, the expert writers and cast delivered marvelous works, as we're about to find out.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/410240 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Author's Playhouse - Volume 7 Author: Ben Hecht, Ben Luchen Ferman Narrator: Clarence Hartnell, William Everett Format: Abridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 59 minutes Release date: September 1, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire. Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce.But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing. On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis. This series produced some real gems from all manner of writers as their short stories and plays were remade for a radio audience. With high production values courtesy of the money from the shows sponsor, Philip Morris, the expert writers and cast delivered marvelous works, as we're about to find out.
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