The Shocking Miss Pilgrim(1st Edition) A Writer in Early Hollywood by FredericaSagorMaas Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 1999 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2122-2, ISBN: 0-8131-2122-1
"Frederica Sagor Maas's life encompasses nearly the entire 20th century (she was born in early July 1900), and during the early years of the Hollywood film industry, she was as fierce a competitor for success as any man. Miss Sagor, still a student at Columbia College, was hired by Universal Pictures as an assistant story editor in 1920, when the job basically entailed attending Broadway plays and determining whether the studio should bu ..."
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim A Writer in Early Hollywood by FredericaSagorMaas 296 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2707-1, ISBN: 0-8131-2707-6
"He certainly was an improvement over the curmudgeon I was assigned to. Lloyd
Sheldon. I tried my best (this time, diplomatically) to get Ben to transfer me to
Buddy's unit, but it didn't work. I was stuck with Lloyd. Ernest and I had sold a
story to Fox earlier in the year. It was a sparkling, captivating little yarn about two
salesmen, one male, one female. in the hosiery business competing for the same
accounts. We called it Free ..."
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim A Writer in Early Hollywood by FredericaSagorMaas Digital, 296 Pages, Published 2010 by University Press Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3743-8, ISBN: 0-8131-3743-8
"There were full-page advertisements in magazines such as Collier's and the
Saturday Evening Post featuring the incredible treadle machine and the "
typewriter" girl, as female typists were called then. The publicists had a ball. The
teaser "24-sheet" was a masterpiece, even if, in its pages, George Seaton
stealthily tried to take credit for having conjured up the basic idea for the story.
But then, from the end results, one had to q ..."
"En 1924 y con sólo veintitrés años, Frederica Sagor Maas llegó a Hollywood y luchó hasta convertirse en una codiciada guionista. Rebelde e ingeniosa, ella misma relata en estas páginas sus experiencias en los años dorados del cine mudo, y cómo sobrevivió en un mundo de juegos de poder, envidias y traiciones, dominado por hombres: productores y directores que, en sus propias palabras, eran «unos analfabetos sexistas, alcohólicos, trepas, ..."