2 Quotes & Sayings By Edward Dmytryk
Edward Dmytryk was born in New York City on April 27, 1901. After graduating from City College of New York in 1922, he was accepted into the University of California Law School, but six months later abandoned his studies to write for the Chicago Herald-Examiner. He began working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927 as a script reader and was promoted to assistant story editor two years later. He had already begun writing screenplays before joining MGM; The Bitter Tea Of General Yen (1927) was his first film credit
Dmytryk's first literary success came with his novel, The Dragon's Egg (1929). Based on the life of the famed Green Hornet radio detective, it tells of an ambitious young man who turns to crime after failing to find work as a journalist. The book went through five printings by 1933, but it wasn't until its 1940 republication that it became a bestseller.
That same year Dmytryk published Linkage, which he had written while waiting for scripts to come through the studio mailroom. Dmytryk's next novel, The Enforcer (1934), was based on his experiences as an undercover FBI agent during the 1930s. Linkage won him national attention and led to regular appearances on radio broadcasts such as "The Screen Guild Theater" and "Lux Radio Theater." In 1932 he married actress Irene Hervey, with whom he would have four children.
In 1936 he published his second bestseller, Marcia Blaine Is Missing! Blaine is a successful magazine editor who agrees to test a new serum from a woman scientist she met at a party to see if she can regain her youth. Blaine wakes up the next morning to discover that her youth is gone and she now looks like a much older woman. She can't remember much about the night before and really isn't sure if she wants to go through with using this serum.
After going through...