Mencken’s American Mercury magazine, Cain wrote, “the sunlight gives everything the unmoving quality of things seen in a desert. In “Paradise,” a 1933 cover story about Los Angeles published in H.L. When Pringle and Cain divorced two years later, Pringle described Cain as “moody, melancholoy and grim” and said he built “mental dungeons, instead of castles in the air.”ġ4. About a year after that divorce, Cain married Aileen Pringle, a former silent film star.ġ3. When she filed for divorce, Elina Cain said that Cain was “morose, sarcastic and insulting.”ġ2. The settlement included a payment of $27,500 - when she was making 65 cents an hour as a “war worker.”ġ1. In 1943, he was granted a divorce from second wife Elina Cain. When he went to war, he had already earned a master’s degree.ġ0. Cain served as a private in France in World War I.Ĩ. Describing Cain, a director once said he “looks like an ex-Sheriff of San Berarndino.” In fact, he was an ex-journalist from Maryland.ħ. About producers and publishers Cain once said, “They don’t know what they want. A complete rewrite he did of the screenplay “Out of the Past” had to be rewritten again after he was done.ĥ. Cain was in high demand in Hollywood, but the relationship was fraught.
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