Without a doubt, there were masterpieces imagined, written, and created by artists who were resident at the Chateau at the time and, at least in part, influenced by their surroundings: Rebel Without a Cause chief among them, but also Sunset Boulevard, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” and works by such writers as Ben Hecht, Lillian Hellman, S. J. Perelman, Elaine Dundy, Carole Eastman, and Menno Meyjes. Curiously, a number of screen adaptations could claim to have been born at the Chateau, including Meredith Willson’s of his stage musical The Music Man, Leonard Gardner’s of his novel Fat
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