16 July - 1952 - Humping A Swag To Hollywood

REPEAT: Born in 1900, Charles Shaw grew up in poverty, was orphaned at age 14 and worked more tough jobs than he could count over the next two decades before settling into a career as a newspaper journalist and columnist for the Bulletin. On this day in 1952, Hollywood bought Charles's latest novel — and it'd become a movie classic. Though flush with case, the orphan-turned-swaggie-turned-reporter-turned-author kept working and writing, creating a hardboiled noir series that was published and praised all over the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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16 July - 1952 - Humping A Swag To Hollywood is an episode from Australia On This Day.

This episode is 18:49 long.

This episode was published on Jul 15, 2021.

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