It is Julie who dives effortlessly into her new role as best friend and confidante to Carole and her lover Andy, and it’s also the same Julie who distraughtly bangs on an old typewriter when sharing a rooming house with her blonde friend Rose. The author’s fictional Julie is the core of this tale.
She is also the strength behind her self-effacing lover Clark Gable who must overcome his fears to ride to stardom as the legendary Rhett Butler.Īs her plot thickens, Kate Alcott introduces the readers to other characters who will play their roles with panache and elegance, feisty George, fragile Vivien, Gable, Victor Fleming, etc. Carole is a badass woman who will stand up to anything that comes her way. Obsessed with the movies right from the start, Julie gets a work to work as a personal assistant to Carole Lombard. To be sure, Julie’s is not some babe from the woods, and she is also definitely not contented with being the wife of a prominent lawyer from a famous family in a town where the blacks were expected to know their lanes and a girl was considered an old maid if not married by the age of 20 years. However, she’s not ready for her romance with the charming dark-haired Andy, who seduces her with long romantic nights and takes her on long drives in Sunset Boulevard. Julies got a lot to learn even though she’s got some crazy dreams of making it up to the screenwriting stardom.īorn and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Julie’s is highly determined to make it big. He’s a loveable man who in the first covers his businesslike personality creatively behind Selznick’s zealous vision. In control of Hollywood from the start, the diligent Julie demonstrates to be Andy’s romantic enemy. As the fire rages across the landscape, demolishing anything along the way, Julie ponders how David Selznick will ever build his Tara. We are introduced to Julie during Selznick’s remake of the burning of Atlanta, something that almost takes Julie’s breath away. Julie is one of the early pro-feminisms, a reversion to those tumultuous years in the movie industry when films such as Gone with the Wind was termed as a sloppy film with an unfinished plot, days when most people predicted that the movie would be a disaster. Selznick’s apprentice and best golden boy. Right from the start, you’ll be embattled by her protagonist as artfully as Julie is seduced by a charming editor Andy Weinstein, who served as David O. Kate Alcott is one of the greatest authors of historical fiction books spiced up with some romance that will get both historical and romance novels readers hooked in the right from the first page to the last. She writes historical fiction books and nonfiction, and she’s the author of a New York Times bestselling book, The Dressmaker, A Touch of Stardust, and The Daring Ladies of Lowell. Kate Alcott is the pen name for journalist of Patricia O’Brien.
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