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Love, As Always... Esmeralda - Corresponding with Patsy Ruth Miller, The Gypsy of the Silent Screen (hardback)

Love, As Always... Esmeralda - Corresponding with Patsy Ruth Miller, The Gypsy of the Silent Screen (hardback)

Carrier, Jeffrey L.
Mutti-Mewse, Austin

Hardcover

Letters & EssaysFilm Studies

ISBN13: 9798887712918
Publisher: Bearmanor Media
Published: Oct 12 2023
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In today's world of instant messaging, it is rare to find a large cache of letters, and those published here span more than a dozen years, from 1982 to 1995. They were sent back and forth between Jeffrey L. Carrier, beginning when he was a 19-year-old college student, and a long-retired star of silent movies named Patsy Ruth Miller. Nearly forgotten today, Miller was very popular a century ago, receiving great acclaim for her performance as Esmeralda opposite Lon Chaney's Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). It is fascinating to read their correspondence and trace a friendship that rises and falls and rises again against the backdrop of movie star anecdotes and the challenge of working together on Miller's autobiography. Miller could be unforgiving, but she could also be nurturing and Carrier, always respectful in his letters, takes it all in his stride. Through these letters, we get to know a naïve young man who grows in wisdom and experience and a once-famous movie star at the end of her life, still trying to cling to the glory of Hollywood fame. This book is a worthwhile companion to Miller's 1988 memoir, My Hollywood - When Both of Us Were Young, available from Bear Manor Media.

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