He wrote a number of scripts earlier for Paralta Studio, a short-lived enterprise where he worked with his friend Monte Katterjohn and C. Gardner Sullivan. He had a flare as a writer, loved words and used them well. Leatrice, although Jack was the most popular actor in Hollywood in 1928, his career began to decline after Louis B. Mayer vowed to destroy him. The ridiculous story that his voice ruined him in pictures still persists to this day. Some people suspected that it was, at least in part, a case of studio politics, closely connected to an attempted merger at the time between William Fox and Loews, which indeed, it turned out to be.
People like to believe in myths and archetypes.
It satisfies a need. It s like the story in The Godfather . All evidence is against it ever happening, yet it is believed to this day because people like it. Some say that Jack willed himself to die. You spent a lot of time with your father during the last year of his life.