Spider Boy by Carl Van Vechten
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Van Vechten, Carl. Spider Boy, A Scenario for a Moving Picture. First Edition. 1928. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows mild fading and light fraying to the spine. Dust jacket by Ronald McRae.
In the twenties and thirties, literary success (or failure, for that matter) in New York meant an obligatory journey west to Hollywood to test one’s skill at writing screenplays. The multi-talented Van Vechten, who would become Gertrude Stein’s literary executor, was but one who answered filmdom’s siren call. He parlayed that experience into this satirical novel, which received good reviews from both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In it, a shy East Coast transplant becomes a reluctant member of the film industry, discovering that the line between art and life in Hollywood is so blurred that it does not really exist at all.
“All the unmarried women stars in Hollywood have mamas; some even have mothers. It’s a convention. The curious thing is that none of ‘em have fathers.”
--Carl Van Vechten
In the twenties and thirties, literary success (or failure, for that matter) in New York meant an obligatory journey west to Hollywood to test one’s skill at writing screenplays. The multi-talented Van Vechten, who would become Gertrude Stein’s literary executor, was but one who answered filmdom’s siren call. He parlayed that experience into this satirical novel, which received good reviews from both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. In it, a shy East Coast transplant becomes a reluctant member of the film industry, discovering that the line between art and life in Hollywood is so blurred that it does not really exist at all.
“All the unmarried women stars in Hollywood have mamas; some even have mothers. It’s a convention. The curious thing is that none of ‘em have fathers.”
--Carl Van Vechten
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