Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin

474 Pages·2020·7.38 MB·English

by  Cooper C Graham, Christoph Irmscher

Love and Loss
in Hollywood
Special Publications of the Lilly Library
Indiana University Press and the Lilly Library
Love and Loss
in Hollywood
Florence Deshon, Max Eastman,
and Charlie Chaplin
Edited by
Cooper C. Graham
and Christoph Irmscher
Indiana University Press
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Cover image Florence Deshon and Max Eastman. Photograph by Margrethe Mather.
From M. Eastman, Love and Revolution (1964).
For Philip Danks,
Florence’s great-nephew,
with gratitude

Contents
ix Lists of Abbreviations and
Major Works by Max Eastman
xi Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
37 Editorial Note
39 1. “Words to Keep Us Warm” (1917)
80 2. “A Lovely Place to Work?” (1918/1919)
215 3. “Talking Together in the Ford” (1920)
243 Interlude: Deshon Portraits by Adolph de Meyer
338 4. “I Object to the Slander of the Ladies” (1921)
386 Coda (1922)
395 Notes
433 Glossary of Names
435 Chronology
439 Selected Bibliography
443 Index

AbbreviAtions And MAjor Works
by MAx eAstMAn
Abbreviations
EL = Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Living. New York: Harper and Brothers,
1948.
LR = Max Eastman, Love and Revolution: My Journey through an Epoch. New
York: Random House, 1964.
Major Works by Max Eastman Frequently Cited in the Notes
Enjoyment of Poetry. New York: Scribner’s, 1913. Rev. ed. 1921, 1926.
Expanded edition (with Other Essays in Aesthetics), 1939. One-volume
edition (with Anthology for “Enjoyment of Poetry”), 1951.
Child of the Amazons and Other Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.
Colors of Life: Poems and Songs and Sonnets. New York: Knopf, 1918.
The Sense of Humor. New York: Scribner’s, 1922.
Kinds of Love: Poems by Max Eastman. New York: Scribner’s, 1931.
Heroes I Have Known: Twelve Who Lived Great Lives. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1942.
Great Companions: Critical Memoirs of Some Famous Friends. New York: Farrar,
Straus, and Cudahy, 1959.
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