Title Leaving Home : a Hollywood Blacklisted Writer's Years Abroad / Anne Edwards

Published Lanham, Maryland : The Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) Contents Departure -- An American in a queen's land -- In a London kind of fog -- A dream is born -- Gentlemen don't always prefer blonds -- My kid seems to like your kid -- Everything in life is a gamble -- A time for decision and Norman Mailer -- Love and other emotions -- Funny girl -- Hollywood calling -- A question of adultery -- The end of an affair -- Judy, Judy, Judy! -- The emerald city of Madrid -- Swiss interlude -- On the Riviera -- Going home -- Last call! Summary Anne Edwards is the author of several bestselling biographies of notable figures, including film stars Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh, and Katharine Hepburn, as well as Queen Mary and Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. A fastidious researcher and accomplished writer, Edwards received a Pulitzer prize nomination for her book Early Reagan: The Rise of an American Hero. In this new memoir, Edwards turns the spotlight on herself, chronicling her 20-year exile from the United States from the 1950s until the early 1970s. After working for MGM as a junior writer, Edwards sold two original screenplays and was employed as a story editor on a television program. An attack of polio left her physically compromised and struggling to make ends meet, so the divorced mother of two left her homeland to find work in Europe. After arriving in London, she was able to find writing jobs under an assumed name, along with her expatriated colleagues. Leaving Home is a personal story about a young mother and her two small children, but it is also about the many famous and not so famous people whose lives intertwined with theirs: Judy Garland, John Garfield, Rod Serling, Norman Mailer, Greta Garbo, and several others. This is an intimate story of a woman who refused to be subdued by her circumstances and determined to rebuild her life in the wake of McCarthyism. It is also a story about a woman who found and lost love and will appeal to any readers wanting to learn more about Hollywood history during one of its darkest periods Notes Includes index English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Edwards, Anne, 1927- SUBJECT Edwards, Anne, 1927- fast Subject Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography Expatriate authors -- England -- London -- Biography Blacklisting of authors -- United States BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Authors, American Blacklisting of authors Expatriate authors Screenwriters England -- London United States Genre/Form collective biographies. autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021676407 ISBN 9780810882003 0810882000 9781283548205 1283548208 9786613860651 6613860654

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