I have never written--and do not intend to write--the 'story of my life.' Yet my childhood was in many ways uncommon, and I have written about parts of that.
"My father was an itinerant writer. In the 20s, when I was born, he was trying to earn a living as a play fixer, which meant that he was hired to rewrite ailing plays so that they could open in New York City. In one tryout in Boston, he told me years later, a play he had 'fixed' opened and closed the first night. The cast, which included Louis Calhern, realized in the middle of the first act that there were only three people in the audience. Calhern advanced to the proscenium and suggested they join the cast so they wouldn't feel so lonely.
"My father wrote several plays of his own, one of which ran for nine months, a fairly respectable run for that period. At some point, he went to Provincetown, where he was part of a group of writers and actors who established the Provincetown Theater. Then he and my mother went to Hollywood, where he worked for M-G-M, and after that to the British-Gaumont studios in England."1
But Fox did not live with her parents.
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