Noel did your father receive credit for producing the series? I don't understand how it ended his career. What did your father do after he left the West Coast?
I don't quite understand it either...
I've no recollection of what credit my father received on Peter the Great. It might have been "Executive in Charge of Production" or simply "for NBC Productions."
After moving back east, my father has held no paying job. He managed to get himself elected to a school board, and he's written a number of opinion pieces and published a novel (which brought him no profit). For a time, he did a little reporting for a free local weekly newspaper - that paid him $20 per article, I think.
The harder question is why he thought he'd never get another job in Hollywood. As he explained it to me at the time, he was a certain age and had worked his way up to a certain salary level. Similar-salaried jobs were going to younger people, and while he might be happy to work for half the dough, potential employers wouldn't
believe he'd be happy to work for half the dough. The scary part? The "certain age" he was when he said all this...
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