But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather disordered lives, if their emotions didn't ride them too hardwell, they wouldn't be able to catch those emotions in flight and imprint them on a few feet of celluloid or project them across the footlights.
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Raymond Chandler was a 19th-century American novelist and screenwriter. Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. Read more on Wikipedia →