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1929réf. 337167Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Corners rubbed else a very good or better copy lacking the dust jacket. Copy number 11 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author as well as additionally Signed on the limitation page by actress Mary Pickford and by the book's dedicatee Frances Marion. Author's first book basis for the George Hill film Min and Bill with a screenplay by Frances Marion and Marion Jackson and featuring Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery in their first foray as an unlikely romantic duo. Dressler won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Min over fellow nominees Irene Dunne Marlene Dietrich Norma Shearer and Ann Harding. The Dressler-Beery partnership proved so appealing that they were reunited three years later in both Tugboat Annie and Dinner at Eight. Lorna Moon bore a son out of wedlock to director William DeMille with the child being raised by Cecil B. DeMille. After the child was born Moon was in dire straits and her close friends Marion and Pickford helped to get the book published and successfully pushed to have the film made although Moon died soon afterward. Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
