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The early screenwriting practice of Ernest Lehman

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This article analyses Ernest Lehman's early screenwriting practice and argues that there are essential commonalities between it and his prose fiction writing practice. In the first section, I highlight the similarities between Lehman's working notes for his abandoned novel, You Scratch My Back , and his unfinished screenplay for the MGM project, Labor Story. In the second section, I look at the ways in which Lehman's prose fiction writing practice influences the composition of his first screenplay, for Executive Suite, as well as the composition of his screenplay for Sweet Smell of Success, and argue that in his prose fiction writing and screenwriting, Lehman uses language in the same aesthetically relevant ways.
Title: The early screenwriting practice of Ernest Lehman
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This article analyses Ernest Lehman's early screenwriting practice and argues that there are essential commonalities between it and his prose fiction writing practice.
In the first section, I highlight the similarities between Lehman's working notes for his abandoned novel, You Scratch My Back , and his unfinished screenplay for the MGM project, Labor Story.
In the second section, I look at the ways in which Lehman's prose fiction writing practice influences the composition of his first screenplay, for Executive Suite, as well as the composition of his screenplay for Sweet Smell of Success, and argue that in his prose fiction writing and screenwriting, Lehman uses language in the same aesthetically relevant ways.

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