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DescriptionSummer, 1936: Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchells first novel, takes the world by storm. Everyone in Hollywood knows Civil War pictures dont make a dime, but renegade producer David O. Selznick snaps up the movie rights and suddenly America has just one question: Who will play Scarlett OHara?When Gwendolyn Brick gets her hands on the book, the clouds part and the angels sing the Hallelujah Chorus. Only a real Southern belle can play Scarlett-and didnt her mama raise her on stories of Shermans march and those damned Yankees? After years of slinging cigarettes at the Cocoanut Grove, Gwendolyn finds a new calling: to play Scarlett. But shes not the only gal in town with a deep-fried accent. Shes going to have to stand out bigger than a hoop skirt at a Twelve Oaks barbeque to win that role.Marcus Adler is the golden boy of Cosmopolitan Pictures, the studio William Randolph Hearst started for his mistress, Marion Davies. When Marcus screenplay becomes Davies first hit, hes invited to Hearst Castle for the weekend. The kid who was kicked out of Pennsylvania gets to rub shoulders with Myrna Loy, Winston Churchill, and Katharine Hepburn-but when the trip turns fiasco, he starts sinking fast. He needs a new story, real big and real soon. So when F. Scott Fitzgerald moves into the Garden of Allah with a $1000-a-week MGM contract but no idea how to write a screenplay, Marcus says, Pleased to meetcha. We need to talk.When Selznick asks George Cukor to direct Gone with the Wind, its the scoop of the year for Kathryn Massey, the Hollywood Reporters newest columnist. But dare she publish it? Scoops are the exclusive domain of the Hearst papers all-powerful, all-knowing, all-bitchy Louella Parsons. Nobody in Hollywood has ever dared to outscoop Louella-until now. When Louella comes back low and dirty, Kathryns boss lets her dangle like a scarecrow in a summer storm. Then the telephone rings. Its Ida Koverman, Louis B. Mayers personal secretary, and she has a proposition shed like to make.The Trouble with Scarlett is the second in Martin Turnbulls series of historical novels set during Hollywoods golden age.About the AuthorFrom an early age, Martin was enchanted with old movies from Hollywoods golden era-from the dawn of the talkies in the late 1920s to the close of the studio system in the late 1950s-and has spent many a happy hour watching the likes of Garland, Gable, Crawford, Garbo, Grant, Miller, Kelly, Astaire, Rogers, Turner, and Welles go through their paces. It feels inevitable that he would someday end up writing about them. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Martin moved to Los Angeles in the mid-90s where he now works as a writer, blogger, webmaster, and tour guide.
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