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forgotten star
The Margot Durning Story
by Woody Leonard
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In October 1937 the lights over Grauman's Chinese Theatre, in Hollywood, blazed with the name of Margot Durning. She was the toast of the town, the celebrated young ingenue whom the critics hailed as the next Jean Harlow.
In this first book from novelist Woody Leonard, the triumphant and tragic story of Margot Durning is told against a backdrop of two powerful settings: Hollywood in its heyday, and the desolate landscape of northwest Oklahoma, where Margot's life begins...and where it finally and fittingly ends.
Mr. Leonard's sense of place is rich and meticulous. He captures the magic of the Hollywood of the '30s and the powerful influence of the motion picture industry on the people who performed and on the vast, star-struck movie-going audience. And he is also at home in the curious Oklahoma setting that, for all its starkness, has a reality and solidity that Margot never found in Tinsel Town.
WOODY LEONARD is an accomplished playwright and musician. He continues to live and work each day in the same northwest region of Oklahoma that served as the inspiration for this novel.
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