"These Three": the influence of William Wyler and Gregg Toland on Lillian Hellman.(Critical essay)

Literature-Film Quarterly | July 1, 2009 | Copyright

"Playwrights who go to Hollywood for any length of time seldom come back without a fatal streptococcus septicus" said George Jean Nathan in a 1937 article in Scribner's Magazine. "The potential of mauve motor cars, marble dunking pools, English butlers, and seven-dollar neckties" in Nathan's analysis leads writers to disregard their independence and integrity: "Hollywood harlotry," he calls it (66).

Nathan articulates a commonly held assumption: Hollywood is often seen as pillaging the American theatre of its talent and its scripts, of turning great directors and ...

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