"I met him one day coming out of Louis B. Mayer's office, and he told me Mr. Mayer had been telling him how much he liked the picture we had done. Mr. Brown said, "I told him, 'Give me writers like Lenore Coffee, and I'll give you stuff like that all the time." I put my hand on his shoulder, and I said, "Goodbye, Clarence." He said, "What do you mean?" I said, "I'll never work for you again. This is a producer's studio. They don't like teams of writers-directors." And I never worked for him again."
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Speaking in 1983, as quoted in Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age (2002) by Patrick McGilligan, p. 145
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Lenore Coffee
(13 July 1896 – 2 July 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
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