Cari Beauchamp is the author of "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood." She also edited and annotated "Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by the Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and co-wrote "Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of the Cannes Film Festival." Her most recent book is "Adventures of a Hollywood Secretary: Her Private Letters from Inside the Studios of the 1920s" and she is currently writing "Joseph P. Kennedy Presents," the story of Joe Kennedy's Hollywood years. She has also written documentary films, writes for Vanity Fair and recently won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholararship. In a previous life, she was Press Secretary to Governor Jerry Brown. She lives in West Los Angeles. Email