Will Murray digs away in aging archives, turning up cool tidbits.
Here’s Will:
I came across these excerpts from Mort Weisinger’s Pony Express gossip column in Writer’s Review back in the 1930s.
“DASHIELL HAMMETT is busy in Hollywood working for MGM on the sequel to The Thin Man and there’s even a chance that the good-looking author and ex-Pinkerton man of San Francisco will enact the leading role instead of William Powell.” (12/34)
“Erle Stanley Gardner, the slick-clicker, has peddled his Perry Mason novels, Case of the Velvet Claws and Case of the Lucky Legs to Warner Brothers, both slated to hit celluloid this annum. . . Ditto for Dashammet with his Money Man. . . .” (8/35)
Dashammet must be the 1930s version of Bennifer. . . .
