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Glamorous Notions takes place in 1950s Rome and Hollywood during the Cold War, where propaganda and communist plots were all the rage in real life and the movies, and my costume designer heroine handles movie star scandals with aplomb even as she hides her own. It was only natural that I would have actors cast in my head as I wrote it. The entire story is one big set-piece, with the streets of Rome, movie studio sound stages, and famous Los Angeles restaurants as its backdrops. I think it would lend itself very well to the movies.Visit Megan Chance's website.
I needed an actress who could go from unassuming to confident and beautiful, and for that I ended up with Florence Pugh, who can frankly play anything. I thought she was a great pick to take on my Elsie Gruner/Lena Taylor, who transforms herself from a pig-farmer’s daughter to the most-requested costume designer in Hollywood.
For Lena’s best friend in Rome, the mysterious, chameleon like woman who changes Lena’s look and life, and plunges her into a danger Lena doesn’t realize until far too late, I chose...[read on]
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