Met "A Great Broad" At A Party On Saturday Night
Gregg was in Detroit this weekend, but that's what he would have called her, had he met her. (It's a compliment, in case anybody is new to Gregg-speak.)
It was Saturday night, the annual LAObserved party on the roof of Formosa.
Patt The Hat (formally known as LA Times columnist Patt Morrison) brought her friend Cari Beauchamp, a fellow Paris-o-phile to whom I spent some time talking.
Beauchamp is a fourth generation Californian and a Vanity Fair writer and Hollywood historian who wrote a book I'm looking forward to reading -- Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Frances Marion was one of the early screenwriters in Hollywood, and Cari told me she has more movies to her credit than only one other person -- William Shakespeare. More on her and Beauchamp's book from the Amazon writeup:
Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter--male or female--for almost three decades, wrote almost 200 produced films and won Academy Awards for writing "The Big House" and "The Champ."
Beauchamp is now working on a comprehensive biography of Gloria Swanson.
looove "Without Lying Down" - fabulous book. I thought I knew the story of early H'wood, but Cari's book introduced a whole new world where women lived & loved on their own terms and showcased their era in the pre-code films.
LACMA did a screening series in conjunction with the publication of the book and I went every night. Came away with a completely new perspective of Mary Pickford, France's best friend.
rosalind at October 15, 2012 5:13 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/10/met-a-great-bro.html#comment-3383153">comment from rosalindI can't wait to read it. I loved talking with Cari, too. She has this deep and slightly raspy voice that sounds like it would be on the other end if you rang a woman in the 40s.
Amy Alkon
at October 15, 2012 6:35 PM
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