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Hollywood Stories

The Television Stories and Teleplays of Eustace Cockrell
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Description

Eustace Cockrell's writing career began at age twenty-two when his first story, co-authored with his older brother Francis M. Cockrell, was published in Blue Book (September 1932), a major pulp fiction magazine. Moving from Missouri to Los Angeles in the mid-1930s, he continued to write not only for pulp publications but also for "slicks" like Collier's and Saturday Evening Post. In the early 1940s, MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) purchased the rights to several of his stories that later became movies including Fast Company and Tennessee Champ. It was his television scripts, however, that brought Cockrell fame. Hollywood Stories is a collection of the author's original tales that captured the imagination of an entire generation and made TV trays a necessity in every American home. In Cockrell's "Hollywood stories," this excitement returns.

Product Details

PublisherMission Point Press
Publish DateSeptember 19, 2024
Pages282
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781961302945
Dimensions11.0 X 8.5 X 0.6 inches | 1.4 pounds

About the Author

Roger Coleman has spent much of his life collecting and editing the works of Hollywood writer, Eustace Cockrell. This effort has resulted in the publication of five volumes of Cockrell's pre-television short stories that include The Masterpieces of Eustace Cockell, Vol. I and II, Refugee Smith and Other Stories of the Ring, Game as They Make 'Em and Lost Stories of Eustace Cockrell, all published by Mission Point Press. Hollywood Stories, also edited by Coleman, features Cockrell's television tales that further establish the author as a master storyteller and an important transitional figure during television's Golden Age. Coleman, also a writer, is married to Eustace Cockrell's daughter, Elizabeth.

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