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1) More than appearance and writing styles differentiated the women. One preferred men, the other loved women. Each woman held extreme political views that the other would have abhorred. The social and cultural circumstances of one would have been deeply uncongenial to the other. At the moment they met, however, they were alike in being new American celebrities: Hellman, freshly acclaimed for her first play, The Children’s Hour; and Stein, already famous for being Gertrude Stein, was making a lecture tour of America with her first popular success, The Autobiography of Alice B.
In the middle of the Depression, Sam Goldwyn offered her $2,500 a week to write screenplays; she was rich. She had more lovers than she could easily juggle: Herman Shumlin would soon be her lover, also the editor and publisher, Ralph Ingersoll, Hammett, of course, the producer 50 t h e w ri ti ng li f e: 1 9 3 3 –1 9 8 4 and director Jed Harris, Arthur Kober from time to time, and others as the fancy took her. Failure came to Hellman with her second play. In 1935, still riding high on the success of The Children’s’ Hour, Hellman began work on Days to Come.
13 Hellman was difficult, yes, but not particularly strange. No one ever wondered about what Lillian Hellman wanted; she made that evident. When she met Dashiell Hammett she met a man who was truly strange: solitary, unreachable, cold, and inpenetrable in some essential way. The exact circumstances of the first meeting between Hellman and Hammett have been papered over by many versions. But they met in Hollywood, in a public place, at some sort of party, in the fall of 1930. Hammett was already famous.