Kevin T. Morales is a TV writer and filmmaker and nephew of Oscar-winning director, Victor Fleming (Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind). Hollywoodland dramatizes Fleming’s career at MGM along with his sharp and sexy friend, screenwriter Anita Loos. Book one tells the story of their first year at MGM together In 1932 and their dramatic collaboration on the film Red Dust, which made stars of Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, and set the Industry on fire.
The novel’s structure is in old Hollywood script format and are the writings of screenwriter John Lee Mahin. He wrote Fleming and Loos’ story in screenplay form, despite knowing the scripts reveal Hollywood’s darkest secrets, and would never be made. But he hopes the dramatized story will help Fleming’s daughters understand their father’s complex persona.
Based on real events, this novel is the first of seven, each covering one year at MGM starting In 1932 and ending In 1939 when Fleming directed "Gone With the Wind," and Anita Loos wrote "The Women."