Ramona

…provided material for her novel Ramona (1884), which aroused public sentiment.

…of the Helen Hunt Jackson novel, was a light but popular Technicolor romance starring Loretta Young and Don Ameche as star-crossed Native American lovers. King ended 1936 with one of the year’s biggest hits, Lloyd’s of London, an entertaining account of the famous British insurance firm’s rise; the epic starred…

…established with Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona (1884), which created an enduring romantic mystique surrounding Native Americans and the missions. In the genre of Hollywood novels, Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust (1939) and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon (1941) are among the best-known such works. Los Angeles has…