Synopsis

Moonlight and Magnolias

Moonlight and Magnolias $13

Ron Hutchinson

Published by Dramatists Play Service

3 Male 1 Female

1939 Hollywood is abuzz - legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind

The screenplay just doesn't work. So what's an all-powerful movie mogul to do?

While fending off the film's stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends a car for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz

Summoning both to his office, he locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time

" ... a Hollywood dream-factory farce ... at once a hyperventilating slapstick comedy, an impassioned love song and a blazing critique of Hollywood. Just when you think it's all fun and games[Hutchinson] turns the tables ... he has a gift for enveloping you in blackness. And then, with a single line, he also can lift the heavy cloud and get on with the hilarity" ~ Chicago Sun Times

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