So it seems to David Dodge, free-lance writer who says that nowhere could he have found as good a supply of situations and characters. What he does with the material isn't worth reading. It is not a guide in any sense of the word. All that was then necessary was to fill in a third dimension with penciled hackwork. The rest was up to my wife, the mails, a literary agent, and luck.
Luck is as luck does.
Alfred Hitchcock made a film from it starring a Philadelphia girl, Grace Kelly. He should know, having lived in this glamorous Gomorrah for several years, and very well, too. His rundown on the celebrated Cannes Film Festival is as ironic as anything I have read on this affair. I doubt that it was David Dodge's intention to present the Riviera as one of the most unattractive watering-places of our time. The way he describes it, it becomes so, and darned expensive to boot.