Scott Bradfield

The fresh hell of Dorothy Parker’s Hollywood

Though well paid as a screenwriter, Parker lampooned Hollywood’s moguls, dubbing MGM Metro-Goldwyn-Merde as she slipped further into alcoholism

Dorothy Parker’s smart dialogue kept making it into the final cuts of Hollywood films –unlike her friend F. Scott Fitzgerald’s. [Bridgeman Images]

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