Hollywood Tales

“I moved out here (Los Angeles) because I had sinusitis, and the doctor recommended a warm climate… The people I knew here were the people I played polo with in the East before the Crash. I was unhorsed by the Crash. Actually, I tried to get a job in a bank or with an oil company, anything. But, of course, in 1930 there was nothing. I also had letters to studio heads. I had a letter from… Quinn Martin, who had been the movie critic at the old New York World, where my brother worked. The letter… was to [the West Coast studio executive] Winnie Sheehan at Fox, and Winne gave me a job as a reader at $35 a week. I thought it was good pay.”

— Philip Dunne