It Happened One Fight, Maureen Lee Lenker
It Happened One Fight, Maureen Lee Lenker
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It Happened One Fight

Author: Maureen Lee Lenker

Narrator: Patti Murin

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/11/2023

Synopsis

Joan Davis is a movie star?and a damned good actor too. Unfortunately, Hollywood only seems to care when she stars alongside Dash Howard, Tinseltown's favorite leading man and a perpetual thorn in Joan's side. She's sick of his hotshot attitude, his never-ending attempts to get a rise out of her?especially after the night he sold her out to the press on a studio-arranged date. She'll turn her career around without him. She's engaged to Hollywood's next rising star, after all, and preparing to make the film that could finally get her taken seriously. Then a bombshell drops: thanks to one of his on-set pranks gone wrong, Dash and Joan are legally married. Reputation on the line, Joan agrees to star alongside Dash one last time and move production to Reno, where divorce is legal after a six-week residency. But between on-set shenanigans, fishing competitions at Lake Tahoe, and intimate moments leaked to the press, Joan begins to see another side to the man she thought she had all figured out, and it becomes harder and harder to convince the public?and herself?that her marriage to Dash is the joke it started out as.

About Maureen Lee Lenker

Maureen Lee Lenker is an award-winning journalist who has written for The Hollywood Reporter, Ms. Magazine, and more. She currently writes for Entertainment Weekly, where she maintains a quarterly romance review column, Hot Stuff, in addition to covering film, TV, and theater. She is a proud graduate of both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. She lives in Los Angeles, where she can be found at the beach or in a repertory movie-house, if she’s not writing.

About Patti Murin

Patti Murin is an acclaimed actress and audiobook narrator. On Broadway, she starred as Anna in Disney’s Frozen, for which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical. On television, she plays Dr. Nina Shore on both Chicago Med and Chicago Fire, and she starred in the Hallmark movies Holiday for Heroes and Love on Iceland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on July 11, 2023

This book was surprising in many ways, mainly that I could simultaneously love it and hate it so so much. I appreciated the non-traditional (at least for me) setting of the 1930s, and the tension and passion between the two stars was delicious. The accidental marriage setup was so fun, plus it was o......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 16, 2024

From one classic film buff to another, this book was exactly my cup of tea. It's as campy and cliche as those classic early 1930s films and captures the soul of the iconic movies like its title's original, It Happened One Night. Let's start this review from the end: my final thoughts and a reflection......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on January 08, 2024

I pre-ordered a signed and personalized copy of this book from The Ripped Bodice because I really like Maureen Lee Lenker after listening to her appear many times on one of my favorite podcasts, Screen Drafts. She always comes on and talks about classic movies, and she talks about them with such con......more

Goodreads review by talia ♡ on August 16, 2023

as a self proclaimed old hollywood aficionado, this book was super FUN for me (even though it is essentially clark gable/joan craword fanfic taking place during the post filiming of it happened one night-sorry claudette colbert) and it was pretty neat to be able to pick up on all the small biographi......more

Goodreads review by Nina on August 13, 2023

Your main character - an amalgam of Joan Crawford and Bette Davis - is named Joan Davis? I mean, it works for a 1930s-era movie star despite, or possibly because of, not being especially clever or original. But then you have a director known for being an actress’s director and you name him Kucor? Ha......more

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