The Trouble with Scarlett: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood

The Trouble with Scarlett: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood (Hollywood's Garden of Allah Novels Book 2)

Have you ever wanted to climb into a time machine and visit Hollywood during its heyday?
Summer, 1936: "Gone with the Wind," Margaret Mitchell's first novel, takes the world by storm. Everyone in Hollywood knows Civil War pictures don't make a dime, but renegade producer David O. Selznick snaps up the movie rights and suddenly America has just one question: Who will play Scarlett O'Hara?

When Gwendolyn Brick gets her hands on the book, the clouds part and the angels sing the Hallelujah Chorus. Only a real Southern belle can play Scarlett--and didn't her mama raise her on stories of Sherman's march and those damned Yankees? After years of slinging cigarettes at the Cocoanut Grove, Gwendolyn finds a new calling: to play Scarlett. But she's not the only gal in town with a deep-fried accent. She's going to have to stand out bigger than a hoop skirt at a Twelve Oaks barbeque to win that role.

Marcus Adler is the golden boy of Cosmopolitan Pictures, the studio William Randolph Hearst started for his mistress, Marion Davies. When Marcus' screenplay becomes Davies' first hit, he's invited to Hearst Castle for the weekend. The kid who was kicked out of Pennsylvania gets to rub shoulders with Myrna Loy, Winston Churchill, and Katharine Hepburn--but when the trip turns fiasco, he starts sinking fast. He needs a new story, real big and real soon. So when F. Scott Fitzgerald moves into the Garden of Allah with a $1000-a-week MGM contract but no idea how to write a screenplay, Marcus says, "Pleased to meetcha. We need to talk."

When Selznick asks George Cukor to direct "Gone with the Wind," it's the scoop of the year for Kathryn Massey, the Hollywood Reporter's newest columnist. But dare she publish it? Scoops are the exclusive domain of the Hearst papers' all-powerful, all-knowing, all-bitchy Louella Parsons. Nobody in Hollywood has ever dared to outscoop Louella--until now. When Louella comes back low and dirty, Kathryn's boss lets her dangle like a scarecrow in a summer storm. Then the telephone rings. It's Ida Koverman, Louis B. Mayer's personal secretary, and she has a proposition she'd like to make.

The Trouble with Scarlett is the second in Martin Turnbull's series of historical novels set during Hollywood's golden age.

Hollywood's Garden of Allah novels:
Book 1 - "The Garden on Sunset"
Book 2 - "The Trouble with Scarlett"
Book 3 - "Citizen Hollywood"
Book 4 - "Searchlights and Shadows"
Book 5 - "Reds in the Beds"
Book 6 - "Twisted Boulevard"

Martin Turnbull's Garden of Allah novels have been optioned for the screen by film & television producer, Tabrez Noorani.

INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR

Your Garden of Allah novels are rich in the history and lore of classic era Hollywood. What was your original inspiration?

How has writing these novels changed your view of this golden age that we perceive as the greatest era of film production?

Why did you not go the safe route and change the names of the major players to suit your story?

Country USA
Manufacturer Rothesay Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Rothesay Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-14
Format	Kindle eBook

The Trouble with Scarlett: A Novel of Golden-Era Hollywood (Hollywood's Garden of Allah Novels Book 2)

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