Hollywood

Hollywood, district of Los Angeles, situated eight miles northeast of the city's downtown and long famous as the center of motion‐picture⧫ production for the world. Because of this association the area became synonymous with the flamboyance and glamour attached to the industry and its stars. Besides inspiring a great quantity of romantic fiction as well as serious sociological studies, the place has been the subject of much satirical treatment, e.g. Kaufman's plays, Once in a Lifetime and Stage Door, and such novels as H.L. Wilson's Merton of the Movies, Van Vechten's Spider Boy, Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Elmer Rice's A Voyage to Purilia, John O'Hara's Hope of Heaven, Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run?, and Bemelmans's Dirty Eddy. Among the dramatists and novelists who have spent time in Hollywood writing for films are Maxwell Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Bromfield, Joan Didion, Dreiser, John Gregory Dunne, Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daniel Fuchs, Ben Hecht, Sidney Howard, George S. Kaufman, Jeremy Larner, Charles MacArthur, Thomas McGuane, David Mamet, Odets, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Robert Sherwood, Phil Stong, and Nathanael West. In the post‐World War II era of vigorous anticommunism a group labeled the Hollywood Ten (including the writers Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, and Dalton Trumbo) were indicted for refusing to testify before the Congressional Committee on Un‐American Activities and as a result were blacklisted by film studios for a long time.