Watched The Big Sleep last night, and was quite surprised to see Leigh was one of the writers.
Have you read her “Eric John Stark” fiction? It’s amazing, and she published much more great writing.
Watched The Big Sleep last night, and was quite surprised to see Leigh was one of the writers.Howard Hawks had tapped William Faulkner and Jules Furthman as screenwriters, then realized he needed a crime writer to keep the arty types on point.
He thought of a writer whose first crime novel had been well received, so "Get me this Leigh Brackett guy!" When this Leigh Brackett guy showed up he turned out to be a chick in her twenties.