As Mem’s masterful art of deception drives her to fame, the left-behind husband returns, raging with jealousy and murderous revenge.įirst published 1922 and adapted to screen the following year by Rupert Hughes himself, this “insider” story of Hollywood filmmaking traces every Hollywood trope from slapstick comedy to theatrical melodrama with love and deceit at every page turn. When she recuperates from dehydration, she finds herself on a film set and is cast as an extra. Abandoning her groom, she impulsively sneaks off their Los Angeles-bound honeymooner train in the middle of the desert. On her wedding night, Remember “Mem” Steddon, daughter of a small-town conservative preacher, has a sudden change of heart.
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