6/6/2023 0 Comments Cloudmaker by Malcolm Brooks![]() ![]() A sexpot star in the mold of Jean Harlow and the studio’s biggest box-office draw, she’s a deeply troubled young woman given to emotional breakdowns, unexplained absences from the set, and time-devouring delays occasioned by her paralyzing insecurities and her insistence on dozens of takes. He’s a fixer who babysits the studio’s stars and covers up their bad behavior.Įverything changes for Jack when Savannah Stevens enters his life. ![]() He jokes that the only thing he knows about publicity is how to suppress it, but that, in fact, is his real job. Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by the war and ended by a facial scar sustained in combat, is now a studio publicist. “If Raymond Chandler had turned a steely eye to the notorious Hollywood casting couch, the result might well be called Someone To Watch Over Me.”-Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted Horses and Cloudmaker ![]()
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