Table of Contents:
  • Charles Bennett: import from England
  • Melville Shavelson: from radio to movies to television
  • Robert Nathan: from the literary world
  • Philip Dunne: son of "Mr. Dooley"
  • Ring Lardner, Jr.: one of the "Hollywood Ten"
  • Robert Pirosh: research and experience
  • Edmund North: seeing life in quick depth
  • Julius J. Epstein: making a living not art
  • Robert Buckner: Hollywood from a distance
  • Oscar Saul: up from poverty
  • William Ludwig: the garbage man's dream
  • Mary Anita Loos: third-generation screenwriter
  • Winston Miller: westerns and pictures about ordinary people.