"No. No, I didn't last long. I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday."
— Hollywood

January 1, 1970

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Los AngelesHollywood, California
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, speaking on the extent of his contribution to the screenplay of the 1955 adaptation of his 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm. Interview by and Alton Anderson, "Nelson Algren, The Art of Fiction, No. 2, The Paris Review (Issue 11, Winter 1955)