Clark Gable Slept Here
Michael McKeever
Hyde In Hollywood
by Peter Parnell
Synopsis
In Hollywood in 1939, an actor/director named Julian Hyde is blackmailed by a gossip columnist known as Hollywood Confidential who threatens to reveal Hyde's homosexuality.
Hyde is coerced into revealing secrets of other Hollywood stars.
Hyde plots revenge by making a film about Hollywood Confidential's life, revealing all of his secrets."Mr.
Parnell argues that the dreams perpetrated by the dream factory during the movies' golden age were as monstrous as … nightmares but far more lasting and lethal … 'A nation lives by its symbols,' says the playwright.
Implicit in HYDE IN HOLLYWOOD is the belief that a braver 30's Hollywood might have helped produce a more courageous nation than the one that was tardy in mobilizing against Hitler in one generation and against Joseph McCarthy in the next… a fascinating piece."
—Frank Rich, The New York Times
Publication
Publisher Broadway Play Publishing
Year 2022
Binding Paperback
Pages 108
Language English
ISBN-13 9780881450903
ISBN-10 0881450901
Hyde In Hollywood is a American play written by Peter Parnell and published by Broadway Play Publishing (2022).
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