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A sweeping book of Hollywood in the 1930s, Girl of My Dreams catches the essence of the Golden Years, when Hollywood became the global illusion capital it remains today. Screenwriter: The protagonist, Owen Jant, is a screenwriter who comes old in the 1930s at the intersection of Hollywood, the Unhappiness, and the heyday of the Communist Get together. At every change, he's finding, and getting rid of, his way. Hollywood superstar: The glamorous Palmyra Millevoix - sophisticated, gifted, strange - is a superstar more agitated than delighted by her fame. She could have been Grushenka, siren of the Karamazov saga, if she was not a Hollywood superstar. Studio mogul: Founder of Jubilee Pictures, Mossy Zangwill is not the previous tycoon however the previous of the old-style chieftains and to begin the organization moderns, clawing his way from a fatherless home in the Bronx to be by his mid-30s a competitor to the Warners and Mayers, reigning kings of Hollywood. He would resemble Gatsby if Gatsby had opted western world. Propelled by the suicide of an innocent victim of studio politics, Owen comes in wacky, unpromising love with Palmyra, who subsequently is relentlessly pursued by Mossy, the autocratic studio head. The drawing and redrawing of the triangle between screenwriter, superstar, and tycoon - intense, devious, seductive, combative - casings the education of Owen Jant. The storyplot has an epic sweep that includes the swagger and display of 1930s Hollywood and the Great Depression's plunder of the North american dream. The ensemble of heroes, like the narrative, is expansive: Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, the Prince of Wales, Edward G. Robinson, and the gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Walter Winchell all show up. So do murder, riot, gender, conspiracy, and deception. Within the shocking climax to Girl of My Dreams, Owen Jant himself, not without paying a higher price, at last climbs the ladder to maturity. Partly, Girl of My Dreams is lurid, juicy, and scandal driven.
