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Max Miller (1899-1967) http://tinyurl.com/MaxMiller

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Hollywood Writers

From It Must Be the Climate, 1941.

Reader: Kevin Hearle

Hollywood has a reputation for chewing up hopeful writers, men and women eager to make a name—or at least a couple of bucks—writing for the movies.

Max Miller evinced little patience for screenwriters. Though they may have felt unheralded and underappreciated, Miller was apparently too busy with his own work to show them any sympathy, especially the more mercenary among them.

This is Hollywood. Or at least this is that side of Hollywood which makes young men old, and which makes old men have ulcers.

It is not the work which is hard. It is the waiting. It is the waiting for somebody's approval of what one has done. It is the waiting for phone calls. It is the waiting for jobs. It is the waiting for somebody's "definite maybe."

I am not one to sympathize with Hollywood writers. They ask for what they get. They cry for cake. Their writing is done, not so much on a typewriter, as on the keys of a cash register. Yet they always are ready to yell about finding no satisfaction. They always are eager to kick Hollywood in the teeth, then to turn right around and fawn on Hollywood for another assignment.

Max Miller began his career as a reporter in the 1920s and eventually wrote many books, including I Cover the Waterfront, which inspired two Hollywood films.