O'Hara, John,  1905-1970 <br/><br/>
The big laugh :  a novel / 
by John O'Hara. 
 - New York :  Random House,  1962. 
 - 308 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Richard Hubert ("Hubie") Ward is a wily young actor from the Easternmost world of prep schools and summers on the Cape. By the time he is twenty-five, he has lied, cheated, and seduced his way to the big-time on the Coast. Hollywood prizes Hubie for his air of respectability: "He was not a Latin or a Jew ... he was not a booze artist ... he was not actorish, he was not pugnacious ... he was of the theater, he had etc... 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Actors--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Fiction