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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler: Advice for Hollywood Screenwriters

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Raymond Chandler (1888 – 1959) Screenwriter on Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Murder My Sweet, The Big Sleep, Lady in the Lake, Strangers on a Train, etc.

“Like every writer or almost every writer, who goes to Hollywood, I was convinced in the beginning that there must be some discoverable method of working in pictures which would not be completely stultifying to whatever creative talent one might happen to possess. But like others before me I discovered that this was a dream.

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Raymond Chandler: Advice for Hollywood Screenwriters

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Raymond Chandler, novelist and co-screenwriter on Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Strangers on a Train, etc.
Raymond Chandler, novelist, and co-screenwriter on Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia, Strangers on a Train, and numerous other credits.

Like every writer or almost every writer, who goes to Hollywood, I was convinced in the beginning that there must be some discoverable method of working in pictures which would not be completely stultifying to whatever creative talent one might happen to possess. But like others before me I discovered that this was a dream.

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