
133: The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas (The Seduced Episode 2)
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The Story of Freddie
Freddie had always wanted to go to medical school, but her family thought sending a girl to medical school was a bad invest ment. Since there was no marital prospect as she was finishing a high school, her parents insisted she'd go to college to study something. But freddi hated her time at columbia, and a few months shy of graduation, she'd quit. Freddie fell in love with a novel called the plastic age, an expose of college athletics, written by a professor. Freddie thought it would make a fabulous film about young people. Universal was suddenly desperate for a story editor, and they offered the position to frederica. She told them she'd take the
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