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From dustjacket:
Patsy Ruth Miller began her film career in 1921, a year when the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce was taking out full page ads with the bold headlines "Out of 20,000 hopefuls only 5 make a living in the Movies and only one becomes a Star!" Patsy Ruth Miller was that one in 20,000.
Had she not become a movie star she would have been one of America's best screenwriters or novelists. Her writing has an intimacy which will involve you in her memories to such a degree that you will forget that you are reading a book and soon find yourself in the magic land of Hollywood in its Golden Years.
She has appeared in over 70 films, 9 plays and has written and had produced four theatrical productions. Her time is now spent between her estate in New England and a home in Palm Desert, where she continues writing and enjoying life in the company of many friends from her early film days and thereafter.
Part Two of this double volume contains the restored (shooting script & photo montage) "Hunchback of Notre Dame" Universal, 1923, by Philip J. Riley.
Review:
A fun memoir of silent-era Hollywood by a minor star who rubbed elbows with the giants. The second part of the volume is an in-depth shot by shot replay of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which Patsy Ruth Miller played Esmeralda to Lon Chaney's Quadimodo.
Patsy Ruth Miller began her film career in 1921, a year when the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce was taking out full page ads with the bold headlines "Out of 20,000 hopefuls only 5 make a living in the Movies and only one becomes a Star!" Patsy Ruth Miller was that one in 20,000.
Had she not become a movie star she would have been one of America's best screenwriters or novelists. Her writing has an intimacy which will involve you in her memories to such a degree that you will forget that you are reading a book and soon find yourself in the magic land of Hollywood in its Golden Years.
She has appeared in over 70 films, 9 plays and has written and had produced four theatrical productions. Her time is now spent between her estate in New England and a home in Palm Desert, where she continues writing and enjoying life in the company of many friends from her early film days and thereafter.
Part Two of this double volume contains the restored (shooting script & photo montage) "Hunchback of Notre Dame" Universal, 1923, by Philip J. Riley.
Review:
A fun memoir of silent-era Hollywood by a minor star who rubbed elbows with the giants. The second part of the volume is an in-depth shot by shot replay of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which Patsy Ruth Miller played Esmeralda to Lon Chaney's Quadimodo.
