Remembering One of Columbia's Earliest Journalism Students
The span of the L.A. Times obituary for journalism-student-turned-Hollywood-screenwriter Frederica Sagor Maas is breathtaking. Which is to be expected since she was, before passing away last Thursday in San Diego, the third oldest Californian at age 111.
Her autobiography The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood, published when Maas was 99 (!), takes its title from her final Tinseltown credit, a great personal disappointment starring Betty Grable. She had a tough time migrating from the silent era, during which she authored Clara Bow’s breakout, and at one point contemplated committing suicide with her husband by driving off a Hollywood hillside.
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