A group of five exceptional and revealing typed letters signed ("Budd") to William Saroyan; written from Culver City on Selznick International Pictures Inc. letterheads, Summer 1937.
From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Together 5 1/2 pages, 4to, approximately 2050 words (four of the letters single-spaced, one double-spaced). In very good condition. Item #409491
The letters constitute a virtual running account of Schulberg's occupation with 'What Makes Sammy Run': "I wrote a story last week which I am sure is the best I ever did. It is about a Hollywood writer, and called 'What Makes Manny Run'... I was bowled over when I heard I had sold my story to Liberty [magazine] for five weeks' salary ... the Manny story (which incidentally is now Sammy, because Liberty was afrain Manny Cohen of Paramount would think it was him)..."
In the course of the correspondence, the 23-year-old Schulberg also praises Saroyan's 'Little Children', describes a house he stayed in ("... it looked so big and naked, and somehow forgive me, I thought of a dame lying naked in a house, all alone, and waiting and waiting..."), and comments on Groucho Marx, Ring Lardner, and David Selznick. (BA).
Price: $4,500.00