If Raymond Chandler had turned a steely eye to the notorious Hollywood casting couch, the result might well be called Someone To Watch Over Me.
--Malcolm Brooks, author of Painted Horses and Cloudmaker Hollywood, 1947.
Jack Shannon, a former actor whose promising career was interrupted by the war and ended by a facial scar sustained in combat, is now a studio publicist.
He jokes that the only thing he knows about publicity is how to suppress it, but that, in fact, is his real job.
He's a.