DOROTHY PARKER, ALAN CAMPBELL WRITING TEAM (1936) Publicity photo

[Los Angeles]: Walter Wanger Productions, 1936. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white double weight glossy photo. Some wear at top blank margin near left side, about fine.

The famed married screenwriting team of Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell hold script pages in this pose to publicize their contract to write for Walter Wanger Productions in 1936. According to the printed text on verso, they are writing the film The Moon’s Our Home. Wanger must have felt that the married team would be perfect to write the dialogue for the Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan comedy about everything to do with marriage. Sullavan and Fonda had been briefly married.

The marriage between Parker and Campbell was far from conventional, though the relationship spanned thirty years. The unconventionality of it had them divorce and marry twice. It is felt that Campbell was gay and hung on the coattails of the brilliant, sensitive and eccentric Parker.

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