SOURCE: Mortimer, John. “Two Thousand Dolours.” Spectator 264, no. 8450 (23 June 1990): 32.

In the following review of Writers in Hollywood, Mortimer praises Hamilton's research and expertise.

‘The Taming of the Shrew,’ ran the titles on one of the earliest talkies to come out of Hollywood, ‘by William Shakespeare, with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor’. Shakespeare we know about, but the unfortunate Sam Taylor has passed on into the limbo of forgotten screenwriters. It is very hard to think of an unforgotten screenwriter and the same oblivion awaits those whose other literary work survives. Who can remember what films were written by Aldous Huxley, Scott Fitzgerald, Christopher Isherwood or P. G. Wodehouse? The lives of writers in the old days of Hollywood appeared to be beset with loneliness, frustration and the humiliation of being considerably overpaid for work which was so little respected that a word from the studio accountant, a faint...